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AI-Powered System to Facilitate Personalized Adaptive Learning in Digital Transformation

Yao, Yao and González-Vélez, Horacio (2025) AI-Powered System to Facilitate Personalized Adaptive Learning in Digital Transformation. Applied Sciences, 15 (9). pp. 1-27. ISSN 2076-3417

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/app15094989

Abstract

As Large Language Models (LLMs) incorporate generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and complex machine learning algorithms, they have proven to be highly effective in assisting human users with complex professional tasks through natural language interaction. However, in addition to their current capabilities, LLMs occasionally generate responses that contain factual inaccuracies, stemming from their dependence on the parametric knowledge they encapsulate. To avoid such inaccuracies, also known as hallucinations, people use domain-specific knowledge (expertise) to support LLMs in the corresponding task, but the necessary knowledge engineering process usually requires considerable manual effort from experts. In this paper, we developed an approach to leverage the collective strengths of multiple agents to automatically facilitate the knowledge engineering process and then use the learned knowledge and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines to optimize the performance of LLMs in domain-specific tasks. Through this approach, we effectively build AI assistants based on particular customized knowledge to help students better carry out personalized adaptive learning in digital transformation. Our initial tests demonstrated that integrating a Knowledge Graph (KG) within a RAG framework significantly improved the quality of domain-specific outputs generated by the LLMs. The results also revealed performance fluctuations for LLMs across varying contexts, underscoring the critical need for domain-specific knowledge support to enhance AI-driven adaptive learning systems.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Uncontrolled Keywords: large language models; personalized adaptive learning; retrieval augmented generation; multi-agent system; digital transformation
Subjects: L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
Q Science > QA Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science
T Technology > T Technology (General) > Information Technology > Electronic computers. Computer science
Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology > Methods of research. Technique. Experimental biology > Data processing. Bioinformatics > Artificial intelligence
Q Science > Q Science (General) > Self-organizing systems. Conscious automata > Artificial intelligence
Q Science > Q Science (General) > Self-organizing systems. Conscious automata > Machine learning
Divisions: School of Computing > Staff Research and Publications
Depositing User: Tamara Malone
Date Deposited: 06 May 2025 10:41
Last Modified: 06 May 2025 10:41
URI: https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/7486

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