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This article is a theoretical study on the effectiveness of educational research in the context of Philosophy of science. This topic of discussion, in the area of educational research, has been the subject of intellectual debate and arises…

Physics Education · Physics 2018-03-06 Omar Ponce , Jose Gomez-Galan , Nellie Pagan-Maldonado

This position paper provides a critical but constructive discussion of current practices in benchmarking and evaluative practices in the field of formal reasoning and automated theorem proving. We take the position that open code, open…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Roozbeh Yousefzadeh , Xuenan Cao

Predictive benchmarking, the evaluation of machine learning models based on predictive performance and competitive ranking, is a central epistemic practice in machine learning research and an increasingly prominent method for scientific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Timo Freiesleben , Sebastian Zezulka

Educational Data Mining (EDM) has emerged as a vital field of research, which harnesses the power of computational techniques to analyze educational data. With the increasing complexity and diversity of educational data, Deep Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yuanguo Lin , Hong Chen , Wei Xia , Fan Lin , Zongyue Wang , Yong Liu

Nonlinear system identification remains an important open challenge across research and academia. Large numbers of novel approaches are seen published each year, each presenting improvements or extensions to existing methods. It is natural,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Max D. Champneys , Gerben I. Beintema , Roland Tóth , Maarten Schoukens , Timothy J. Rogers

We consider the use of automated supervised learning systems for data tables that not only contain numeric/categorical columns, but one or more text fields as well. Here we assemble 18 multimodal data tables that each contain some text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Xingjian Shi , Jonas Mueller , Nick Erickson , Mu Li , Alexander J. Smola

Tabular data represent one of the most prevalent data formats in applied machine learning, largely because they accommodate a broad spectrum of real-world problems. Existing literature has studied many of the shortcomings of neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Guri Zabërgja , Arlind Kadra , Christian M. M. Frey , Josif Grabocka

Although compelling assessments have been examined in recent years, more studies are required to yield a better understanding of the several methods where assessment techniques significantly affect student learning process. Most of the…

Physics Education · Physics 2017-12-15 Khondkar Islam , Pouyan Ahmadi , Salman Yousaf

Training algorithms, broadly construed, are an essential part of every deep learning pipeline. Training algorithm improvements that speed up training across a wide variety of workloads (e.g., better update rules, tuning protocols, learning…

Like many other domains in Artificial Intelligence (AI), there are specific tasks in the field of AI in Education (AIEd) for which labels are scarce and expensive, such as predicting exam score or review correctness. A common way of…

We consider the problem of creating fair course timetables in the setting of a university. Our motivation is to improve the overall satisfaction of individuals concerned (students, teachers, etc.) by providing a fair timetable to them. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-01 Moritz Mühlenthaler , Rolf Wanka

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has sparked enormous interest due to their potential application across a range of educational tasks. For example, recent work in programming education has used LLMs to generate learning…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Charles Koutcheme , Nicola Dainese , Sami Sarsa , Juho Leinonen , Arto Hellas , Paul Denny

Currently, there is no consistent benchmarking across multi-disciplines. Even no previous work tries to relate different categories of benchmarks in multi-disciplines. This article investigates the origin and evolution of the benchmark…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Jianfeng Zhan

The problem of class imbalance is extensive for focusing on numerous applications in the real world. In such a situation, nearly all of the examples are labeled as one class called majority class, while far fewer examples are labeled as the…

The development of LLM agents has led to a growing body of work on knowledge-work AI, including coding, research, and healthcare. However, current knowledge-work evaluation and benchmark design still largely follow the logic of traditional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yining Hua , Hongbin Na , Cyrus Ayubcha , Levi Lian

Current benchmarks that test LLMs on static, already-solved problems (e.g., math word problems) effectively demonstrated basic capability acquisition. The natural progression has been toward larger, more comprehensive and challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Alwin Jin , Sean M. Hendryx , Vaskar Nath

We introduce PHYSICS, a comprehensive benchmark for university-level physics problem solving. It contains 1297 expert-annotated problems covering six core areas: classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics and statistical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Kaiyue Feng , Yilun Zhao , Yixin Liu , Tianyu Yang , Chen Zhao , John Sous , Arman Cohan

Describing and analysing learner behaviour using sequential data and analysis is becoming more and more popular in Learning Analytics. Nevertheless, we found a variety of definitions of learning sequences, as well as choices regarding data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Manuel Valle Torre , Catharine Oertel , Marcus Specht

Generative models have demonstrated human-level proficiency in various benchmarks across domains like programming, natural sciences, and general knowledge. Despite these promising results on competitive benchmarks, they still struggle with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Victor-Alexandru Pădurean , Adish Singla

The objective of this paper is to design performance metrics and respective formulas to quantitatively evaluate the achievement of set objectives and expected outcomes both at the course and program levels. Evaluation is defined as one or…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-09-16 Irfan Ahmed , Arif Bhatti