Commercially optimized study-oriented modes achieve higher learner-side scores than baseline, and CURIOBOT shifts general-purpose LLM behavior toward those patterns via prompting alone¶

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q2 i? Study-oriented modes consistently achieve higher learner-side scores than Baseline across Gemini and Claude, and CURIOBOT, relying solely on inference-time prompting, shifts learner-side behavior toward the patterns observed in these commercially optimized systems on L1–L4. → Ganganath 2026

Evidence¶

Ganganath 2026¶

Ganganath, G., Bolonghege, P., Lyu, Q., Varakantham, P., & Kandappu, T. (2026). Curiosity as Linguistic Intervention: Using LLM Tutoring Dialogues to Influence Exploratory Learning Behavior. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22349 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.22349

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Approximate upper-bound reference analysis (§5.4, Appendix J Table 16). GPT is excluded since OpenAI does not provide a study-oriented mode; these modes were not treated as formal experimental baselines because they expose no API-level controllable prompting.

"study-oriented modes consistently achieve higher learner-side scores than Baseline across Gemini and Claude"

Discussion¶

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