Ablating expert-informed structural components lowered LLM-judge scores on all dimensions, with largest drops in challenge quality, intent alignment, and domain grounding¶
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q1 i? Removing the competency map and ontology-based constraints yielded lower scores on all reported LLM-judge dimensions, with the largest degradations in challenge quality, learner intent alignment, and domain grounding. → Hornung 2026
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Hornung 2026¶
Hornung, I., Marasinghe Arachchige, D., Kumarage, T., Agrawal, G., Deng, Y., Chen, Y.-C., & Liu, H. (2026). CyberAGENTS: Structured Autonomy for Agentic Gamified Learning in Cybersecurity. Preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07965 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.07965
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Preliminary ablation comparing the full CyberAGENTS framework (n=74 interactions) against an ablated version (n=26 interactions) without the competency map and ontology-based constraints, scored by the LLM-as-judge. Table 3 shows e.g. Challenge Quality 4.20 vs 3.46 and Domain Relevance 4.46 vs 3.77.
"Compared with the full system, the ablation yields lower scores on all reported dimensions and the largest degradations appear in challenge quality, learner intent alignment, and domain grounding"
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Ablating expert-informed structural components lowered LLM-judge scores on all dimensions, with largest drops in challenge quality, intent alignment, and domain grounding |
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Ablating expert-informed structural components lowered LLM-judge scores on all dimensions, with largest drops in challenge quality, intent alignment, and domain grounding |
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