{"id":175,"date":"2026-09-22T19:21:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T19:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2026-09-22T19:21:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T19:21:30","slug":"simulating-learning-students-with-llms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/22\/simulating-learning-students-with-llms\/","title":{"rendered":"Simulating learning students with LLMs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m working on yet another AI Tutor, currently exploring synthetic students generation. In this <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2605.12748\">paper<\/a> the autors measured if different LLMs simulated students fixed their misconceptions after receiving different content<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2L46i9JxRb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; targeted: content which addresses the true misconception<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; generic: which signals incorrectness without guidance <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; misaligned: which targets a different misconception they give the sim user the three versions and measure if the targeted one is the most effective.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/falconius\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;d really like to test is what happens with different versions of targeted content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iguess that it won&#8217;t matter and every targeted content would produce similar results but I wonder if there&#8217;s a way to do it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ll take a look at S<a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/papers\/2609.01591\">tudentSim<\/a> next, seems it&#8217;s heading that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on yet another AI Tutor, currently exploring synthetic students generation. In this paper the autors measured if different LLMs simulated students fixed their misconceptions after receiving different content &#8211; targeted: content which addresses the true misconception &#8211; generic: which signals incorrectness without guidance &#8211; misaligned: which targets a different misconception they give the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}