用知识图谱和强化学习,让AI像老师一样有计划地教人。
Hey Chat, Can You Teach Me? Structuring Socratic Dialogue for Human Learning in the Wild

- 构建知识依赖图,决定教什么、教多久
- 在多领域测试中,学完课程速度更快,对话更少
- 适合需要系统性学习的用户,尤其非专业场景
大语言模型如今广泛用于日常学习,但互动通常无结构,缺乏对学生已有知识的记录。仅靠扩大模型规模无法弥补这一差距。前沿及教育优化型LLM在长时间辅导中表现不佳,因需同时完成三件事:规划课程、进行苏格拉底式对话、从对话中推断学生知识状态。本文提出将责任分离:基于学生提问,系统构建子主题为节点、依赖关系为边的知识图谱,将教学转化为选择下一个教学节点及停留对话轮数的决策。轻量级PPO策略负责序列决策,而LLM在选定节点执行苏格拉底对话并返回学生进展信号。在多个保留的STEM与非STEM主题上,该系统优于启发式基线、前沿通用模型及专精苏格拉底对话的模型:学生达到完整课程掌握的速度更快,所需对话轮数更少。明确的课程结构带来的提升,是单纯扩大模型规模无法实现的。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large language models are now widely used for everyday learning, but the underlying interactions are typically unstructured chats rather than following a curriculum. Unlike formal online learning systems, these interactions carry no prior record of the student, so any estimate of what the student already knows must be inferred from the dialogue itself. We show that this gap is not closed by scaling models alone. Frontier and education-tuned LLMs perform poorly when asked to tutor a student over an extended session, because doing so requires three things at once. The tutor must sequence a curriculum, conduct Socratic dialogue, and infer the student's knowledge state from that dialogue. We propose separating these responsibilities. Given a student query, our system constructs a prerequisite knowledge graph in which subtopics are nodes and dependencies are edges, and frames tutoring as deciding which node to teach next and how many dialogue turns to spend on it before moving on. A lightweight PPO policy handles this sequencing decision, while an LLM conducts the Socratic exchange at the chosen node and returns a signal of student progress. Across held-out STEM and non-STEM topics, our PPO-paired tutor outperforms heuristic baselines, frontier general-purpose models, and a model specialised for Socratic dialogue: on both the rate at which students reach full curriculum mastery and the number of turns required. Explicit curriculum structure delivers gains that scaling the underlying model does not.
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