Per-topic performance varied: NP-completeness scored highest ROUGE-1 F1 (0.1285), sorting algorithms highest pedagogical quality (0.8250), and recurrence relations lowest pedagogical quality (0.6629)¶
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q2 i? Pedagogical quality ranged 0.6629–0.8250 across topics while ROUGE-1 F1 stayed low and near-uniform (0.0876–0.1285). → Sushan Adhikari 2026
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Sushan Adhikari 2026¶
Sushan Adhikari. (2026). AlgoRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Theoretical Computer Science Education — A Comprehensive Evaluation Framework for Algorithm Analysis and Complexity Theory. arXiv preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14572 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2609.14572
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Per-topic analysis over the 179-question test set (Table 2, Fig. 2). NP-completeness (n=21) achieved the highest "ROUGE-1 F1 (0.1285)"; sorting algorithms (n=6) scored highest pedagogical quality at 0.8250; graph algorithms (n=21) reached 0.8086; recurrence relations (n=17) scored lowest at 0.6629.
"NP-completeness achieved the highest ROUGE-1 F1 (0.1285), likely because reduction proofs and complexity-class definitions follow comparatively standardized phrasing"
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Related Claims¶
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- BLEU-4 scored zero on all 179 mathematical-proof responses, which the authors interpret as a property of n-gram metrics rather than system failure — related
- Mined misconception labels match personas' assigned misconceptions at F1 ≈ 0.56, a score that does not test whether generated questions elicit the named misconception — related
- The design strained on later proof-heavy topics, and students asked for better artifacts rather than fewer tests — related
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Per-topic performance varied: NP-completeness scored highest ROUGE-1 F1 (0.1285), sorting algorithms highest pedagogical quality (0.8250), and recurrence relations lowest pedagogical quality (0.6629) |
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Per-topic performance varied: NP-completeness scored highest ROUGE-1 F1 (0.1285), sorting algorithms highest pedagogical quality (0.8250), and recurrence relations lowest pedagogical quality (0.6629) |
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