Removing the DPO objective reduces examination accuracy by 1.11 percentage points and degrades annotated pedagogical quality¶
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q2 i? Dropping DPO from training lowers accuracy from 87.02% to 85.91% and yields qualitatively lower pedagogical tone as rated by two annotators on 50 sampled responses. → Thang Doan Viet 2026
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Thang Doan Viet 2026¶
Thang Doan Viet, Anh Nguyen Hoang, Tinh Luong Son, Anh Hoang Thi Ngoc, Huyen Giang Thi Thu, Tai Le Quy. (2026). ConnectED: A Curriculum-Aligned AI System for Vietnamese Instructional Lesson Planning and Student Learning. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28647 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.28647
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Model-level ablation (Table 3): full VietEduQwen rated High pedagogical quality at 87.02% accuracy; SFT-only reached 85.91% (Medium); base Qwen3-8B 80.92% (Very low). Quality ratings came from "two independent annotators rating a sample of 50 responses".
"Removing the DPO objective reduces accuracy by 1.11 percentage points (from 87.02% to 85.91%) and leads to qualitatively degraded pedagogical tone, as assessed by two independent annotators rating a sample of 50 responses on a three-level scale"
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Related Claims¶
- VietEduQwen achieves 87.02% accuracy on the 2025 Vietnamese National High School Examination, a 6.10-percentage-point gain over the base Qwen3-8B model — related
- Both RL stages are needed: removing DPO and GRPO training causes the largest performance drop in student simulation — related
- Federated aggregation is the primary driver of performance gains, contributing an average 11.99% improvement — related
- VietEduQwen improves over its base model across all eight exam subjects, with the largest gains in STEM disciplines, and its residual errors concentrate in multi-step computation and cross-concept integration — related
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Removing the DPO objective reduces examination accuracy by 1.11 percentage points and degrades annotated pedagogical quality |
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Removing the DPO objective reduces examination accuracy by 1.11 percentage points and degrades annotated pedagogical quality |
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