Search Results for author: Ehsan Latif

Found 21 papers, 5 papers with code

Artificial Intelligence Bias on English Language Learners in Automatic Scoring

no code implementations15 May 2025 Shuchen Guo, Yun Wang, Jichao Yu, Xuansheng Wu, Bilgehan Ayik, Field M. Watts, Ehsan Latif, Ninghao Liu, Lei Liu, Xiaoming Zhai

This study investigated potential scoring biases and disparities toward English Language Learners (ELLs) when using automatic scoring systems for middle school students' written responses to science assessments.

Knowledge Distillation and Dataset Distillation of Large Language Models: Emerging Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions

no code implementations20 Apr 2025 Luyang Fang, Xiaowei Yu, Jiazhang Cai, Yongkai Chen, Shushan Wu, Zhengliang Liu, Zhenyuan Yang, Haoran Lu, Xilin Gong, Yufang Liu, Terry Ma, Wei Ruan, Ali Abbasi, Jing Zhang, Tao Wang, Ehsan Latif, Wei Liu, Wei zhang, Soheil Kolouri, Xiaoming Zhai, Dajiang Zhu, Wenxuan Zhong, Tianming Liu, Ping Ma

Despite substantial progress, open challenges remain in preserving emergent reasoning and linguistic diversity, enabling efficient adaptation to continually evolving teacher models and datasets, and establishing comprehensive evaluation protocols.

Dataset Distillation Diversity +2

Efficient Multi-Task Inferencing: Model Merging with Gromov-Wasserstein Feature Alignment

no code implementations12 Mar 2025 Luyang Fang, Ehsan Latif, Haoran Lu, Yifan Zhou, Ping Ma, Xiaoming Zhai

The improvements in micro F1 and per-label accuracy were statistically significant compared to GPT-o1-based merging (p=0. 04, p=0. 01).

Computational Efficiency

Privacy-Preserved Automated Scoring using Federated Learning for Educational Research

1 code implementation12 Mar 2025 Ehsan Latif, Xiaoming Zhai

Data privacy remains a critical concern in educational research, requiring strict adherence to ethical standards and regulatory protocols.

Federated Learning parameter-efficient fine-tuning

Fine-tuning ChatGPT for Automatic Scoring of Written Scientific Explanations in Chinese

no code implementations12 Jan 2025 Jie Yang, Ehsan Latif, Yuze He, Xiaoming Zhai

These findings demonstrate the effectiveness of LLMs in automatic scoring within a Chinese context and emphasize the importance of linguistic features and reasoning complexity in fine-tuning scoring models for educational assessments.

Efficient Multi-Task Inferencing with a Shared Backbone and Lightweight Task-Specific Adapters for Automatic Scoring

no code implementations30 Dec 2024 Ehsan Latif, Xiaoming Zhai

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education requires scalable and efficient frameworks that balance performance, adaptability, and cost.

Fairness

Can OpenAI o1 outperform humans in higher-order cognitive thinking?

no code implementations7 Dec 2024 Ehsan Latif, Yifan Zhou, Shuchen Guo, Lehong Shi, Yizhu Gao, Matthew Nyaaba, Arne Bewerdorff, Xiantong Yang, Xiaoming Zhai

For scientific reasoning, it achieved near-perfect performance (mean = 0. 99, SD = 0. 12) on the TOSLS,, exceeding the highest human scores of 0. 85, SD = 0. 13 (z = 1. 78).

Logical Reasoning

Using Generative AI and Multi-Agents to Provide Automatic Feedback

no code implementations11 Nov 2024 Shuchen Guo, Ehsan Latif, Yifan Zhou, Xuan Huang, Xiaoming Zhai

This study investigates the use of generative AI and multi-agent systems to provide automatic feedback in educational contexts, particularly for student constructed responses in science assessments.

A Systematic Assessment of OpenAI o1-Preview for Higher Order Thinking in Education

no code implementations11 Oct 2024 Ehsan Latif, Yifan Zhou, Shuchen Guo, Yizhu Gao, Lehong Shi, Matthew Nayaaba, Gyeonggeon Lee, Liang Zhang, Arne Bewersdorff, Luyang Fang, Xiantong Yang, Huaqin Zhao, Hanqi Jiang, Haoran Lu, Jiaxi Li, Jichao Yu, Weihang You, Zhengliang Liu, Vincent Shung Liu, Hui Wang, Zihao Wu, Jin Lu, Fei Dou, Ping Ma, Ninghao Liu, Tianming Liu, Xiaoming Zhai

This study evaluates OpenAI o1-preview's ability to perform higher-order cognitive tasks across 14 dimensions, including critical thinking, systems thinking, computational thinking, design thinking, metacognition, data literacy, creative thinking, abstract reasoning, quantitative reasoning, logical reasoning, analogical reasoning, and scientific reasoning.

Logical Reasoning

Object-Oriented Material Classification and 3D Clustering for Improved Semantic Perception and Mapping in Mobile Robots

1 code implementation8 Jul 2024 Siva Krishna Ravipati, Ehsan Latif, Ramviyas Parasuraman, Suchendra M. Bhandarkar

Classification of different object surface material types can play a significant role in the decision-making algorithms for mobile robots and autonomous vehicles.

Autonomous Vehicles Classification +5

Unveiling Scoring Processes: Dissecting the Differences between LLMs and Human Graders in Automatic Scoring

no code implementations4 Jul 2024 Xuansheng Wu, Padmaja Pravin Saraf, Gyeonggeon Lee, Ehsan Latif, Ninghao Liu, Xiaoming Zhai

Specifically, we prompt LLMs to generate analytic rubrics that they use to assign scores and study the alignment gap with human grading rubrics.

Logical Reasoning

G-SciEdBERT: A Contextualized LLM for Science Assessment Tasks in German

1 code implementation9 Feb 2024 Ehsan Latif, Gyeong-Geon Lee, Knut Neumann, Tamara Kastorff, Xiaoming Zhai

The advancement of natural language processing has paved the way for automated scoring systems in various languages, such as German (e. g., German BERT [G-BERT]).

Language Modelling Large Language Model

Gemini Pro Defeated by GPT-4V: Evidence from Education

no code implementations27 Dec 2023 Gyeong-Geon Lee, Ehsan Latif, Lehong Shi, Xiaoming Zhai

This study compared the classification performance of Gemini Pro and GPT-4V in educational settings.

image-classification Image Classification +2

Knowledge Distillation of LLM for Automatic Scoring of Science Education Assessments

no code implementations26 Dec 2023 Ehsan Latif, Luyang Fang, Ping Ma, Xiaoming Zhai

We compared accuracy with state-of-the-art (SOTA) distilled models, TinyBERT, and artificial neural network (ANN) models.

Knowledge Distillation Mathematical Reasoning

Multimodality of AI for Education: Towards Artificial General Intelligence

no code implementations10 Dec 2023 Gyeong-Geon Lee, Lehong Shi, Ehsan Latif, Yizhu Gao, Arne Bewersdorff, Matthew Nyaaba, Shuchen Guo, Zihao Wu, Zhengliang Liu, Hui Wang, Gengchen Mai, Tiaming Liu, Xiaoming Zhai

This paper presents a comprehensive examination of how multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) approaches are paving the way towards the realization of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in educational contexts.

Automatic Scoring of Students' Science Writing Using Hybrid Neural Network

no code implementations2 Dec 2023 Ehsan Latif, Xiaoming Zhai

We also have observed that HNN is x2 more efficient in training and inferencing than BERT and has comparable efficiency to the lightweight but less accurate Naive Bayes model.

regression

Applying Large Language Models and Chain-of-Thought for Automatic Scoring

no code implementations30 Nov 2023 Gyeong-Geon Lee, Ehsan Latif, Xuansheng Wu, Ninghao Liu, Xiaoming Zhai

We found a more balanced accuracy across different proficiency categories when CoT was used with a scoring rubric, highlighting the importance of domain-specific reasoning in enhancing the effectiveness of LLMs in scoring tasks.

Few-Shot Learning Prompt Engineering +1

Fine-tuning ChatGPT for Automatic Scoring

no code implementations16 Oct 2023 Ehsan Latif, Xiaoming Zhai

In this study, we fine-tuned GPT-3. 5 on six assessment tasks with a diverse dataset of middle-school and high-school student responses and expert scoring.

Language Modelling

SEAL: Simultaneous Exploration and Localization in Multi-Robot Systems

1 code implementation22 Jun 2023 Ehsan Latif, Ramviyas Parasuraman

The availability of accurate localization is critical for multi-robot exploration strategies; noisy or inconsistent localization causes failure in meeting exploration objectives.

Gaussian Processes

Communication-Efficient Reinforcement Learning in Swarm Robotic Networks for Maze Exploration

1 code implementation26 May 2023 Ehsan Latif, WenZhan Song, Ramviyas Parasuraman

The results demonstrate significantly higher coverage accuracy and efficiency while reducing costs and overlaps even in high packet loss and low communication range scenarios.

reinforcement-learning

AGI: Artificial General Intelligence for Education

no code implementations24 Apr 2023 Ehsan Latif, Gengchen Mai, Matthew Nyaaba, Xuansheng Wu, Ninghao Liu, Guoyu Lu, Sheng Li, Tianming Liu, Xiaoming Zhai

AGI, driven by the recent large pre-trained models, represents a significant leap in the capability of machines to perform tasks that require human-level intelligence, such as reasoning, problem-solving, decision-making, and even understanding human emotions and social interactions.

Decision Making Fairness

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