The simulated-respondent approach recovers the guessing parameter c at correlation 0.48, far above regression baselines, suggesting it captures genuine response behavior¶

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q2 i? The fine-tuned model recovers the guessing parameter at Pearson 0.48 (Qwen3.5-9B; 0.45 for 4B), where MathBERT reaches 0.25 and MetaMath 0.28, which the authors read as evidence the model captures genuine response behavior rather than surface stimulus features. → Christopher Ormerod and YoungKoung Kim 2026

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Christopher Ormerod and YoungKoung Kim 2026¶

Christopher Ormerod and YoungKoung Kim. (2026). Multimodal Item Parameter Estimation using Simulated Response Probabilities. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10154 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.10154

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Discussion-section interpretation of the Table 5 results: a model that merely reads the question cannot infer how often low-ability students are drawn to a distractor, whereas a model trained to imitate those students can. Table 5 prints baseline c correlations of 0.25 and 0.28.

"Recovering the guessing parameter c at a correlation of 0.48, where the regression baselines are very low by comparison, is arguably the clearest evidence that the approach captures genuine response behavior rather than surface features of the stimulus"

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