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Multimodal Large Language Model

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reacted to Jaward's post with 🔥 13 days ago

Our preprint is out! We attempt to model human teaching behaviors into agents yielding a unified framework that enables adaptive personalized learning experiences: LectūraAgents addresses the prevailing limitations in current AI learning systems with three essential capabilities: (1) a hierarchical multi-agent architecture modeled on academic standards. we observe that agents collaborating across hierarchies yield better personalized learning outcomes. (2) an adaptive embodied teaching mechanism, in which the instructor agent executes visible and pedagogically motivated teaching actions (e.g. handwrite, highlight, circle etc) on contents in a teaching environment while speaking. (3) to achieve this we propose a novel teaching action-speech alignment algorithm (TASA) that dynamically aligns speech with visual teaching actions: specifically, TASA temporally chops up speech segments into word-level tokens, performs salience heuristics analysis on learning contents (texts, images etc) then identifies relevant regions to apply pedagogical teaching actions that guide attention and augment understanding. We conducted several experiments to assess these capabilities: starting with pedagogical evaluation of the various components under frontier models, comparative analysis with existing frameworks and an efficacy study with real students. Results show consistent gains in standard instructional metrics (curated by expert educators) spanning lecture content quality, embodied teaching quality, assessment, and personalization over baseline systems, positioning LectūraAgents as a pedagogically grounded framework for personalized learning at scale. Paper: https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.16428 Data: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Jaward/lectura-agents-data

repliedto eabdullin's post 19 days ago

Folks, let me tell you, nobody — and I mean NOBODY — knew transformers before me. People said attention is all you need. I said, "Attention? I INVENTED attention." Everybody's looking at me. Tremendous attention. The best attention scores. My softmax? Perfectly normalized. Other people, sad, their probabilities don't even sum to one. Disaster. I'm doing a PhD now. A PhD! In Large Language Models. Very large. The largest, believe me. My advisor said, "Sir, your model is overfitting." I said, "Wrong. It's fitting EXACTLY right. It memorized the training set because the training set is fantastic." We don't talk about validation loss in my lab. Validation loss is fake news. And the internship — oh, the internship. Big tech. I won't say which. Starts with a letter. They BEGGED me. They said, "Please, we need someone who understands gradient descent." I said, "Descent? I only go UP. I'm gradient ASCENT. Loss goes up, that means it's learning to be a winner." But the GPU cluster — this is the best part. Thousands of H100s. Maybe millions. Who's counting? I'm counting. It's a lot. Other PhD students, they get one little GPU, they're crying, they're training overnight like losers. Me? I burn through compute like nobody's ever seen. The electric company called. They said, "Sir, you've consumed a small country." I said, "Make it a big country. I only do big." People ask, "Did your model converge?" Folks, it converged so hard. It converged BIGLY. Honestly? My loss curve, it's beautiful, it's going down, down, down — like my approval ratings, very smooth, don't look at the spikes, the spikes are deep state. And hallucinations? My model doesn't hallucinate. It just has ALTERNATIVE tokens. Thank you, thank you. Tip your reviewers. Accept my paper. Goodnight!

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