Alexander Scarlatos

According to our database, Alexander Scarlatos authored at least 27 papers between 2020 and 2026.

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2026

Who Am I? History-Aware Profiles for Student Simulation in Tutoring Dialogues.

Zhangqi Duan, Shuyan Huang, Alexander Scarlatos, Jaewook Lee, Simon Woodhead, Andrew Lan

CoRR, May, 2026

Gumbel Machine: Counterfactual Student Writing Generation via Gumbel Noise Steering.

Hunter McNichols, Alexander Scarlatos, Mihai Dascalu, Danielle S. McNamara, Andrew Lan

CoRR, May, 2026

Interpretable Difficulty-Aware Knowledge Tracing in Tutor-Student Dialogues.

Shuyan Huang, Alexander Scarlatos, Jaewook Lee, Andrew Lan

CoRR, May, 2026

Letting Tutor Personas "Speak Up" for LLMs: Learning Steering Vectors from Dialogue via Preference Optimization.

Jaewook Lee, Alexander Scarlatos, Simon Woodhead, Andrew Lan

CoRR, February, 2026

Simulated Students in Tutoring Dialogues: Substance or Illusion?

Alexander Scarlatos, Jaewook Lee, Simon Woodhead, Andrew Lan

Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2026

2025

Exploring Knowledge Tracing in Tutor-Student Dialogues using LLMs.

Alexander Scarlatos, Ryan Shaun Baker, Andrew S. Lan

Proceedings of the 15th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference, 2025

SMART: Simulated Students Aligned with Item Response Theory for Question Difficulty Prediction.

Alexander Scarlatos, Nigel Fernandez, Christopher Ormerod, Susan Lottridge, Andrew S. Lan

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025

Interpretable Mnemonic Generation for Kanji Learning via Expectation-Maximization.

Jaewook Lee, Alexander Scarlatos, Andrew Lan

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025

ReaLJam: Real-Time Human-AI Music Jamming with Reinforcement Learning-Tuned Transformers.

Alexander Scarlatos, Yusong Wu, Ian Simon, Adam Roberts, Tim Cooijmans, Natasha Jaques, Cassie Tarakajian, Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

LookAlike: Consistent Distractor Generation in Math MCQs.

Nisarg Parikh, Alexander Scarlatos, Nigel Fernandez, Simon Woodhead, Andrew Lan

Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2025

Exploring LLMs for Predicting Tutor Strategy and Student Outcomes in Dialogues.

Fareya Ikram, Alexander Scarlatos, Andrew Lan

Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2025

Training LLM-Based Tutors to Improve Student Learning Outcomes in Dialogues.

Alexander Scarlatos, Naiming Liu, Jaewook Lee, Richard G. Baraniuk, Andrew S. Lan

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 26th International Conference, 2025

2024

Evaluating GPT-4 at Grading Handwritten Solutions in Math Exams.

Adriana Caraeni, Alexander Scarlatos, Andrew S. Lan

CoRR, 2024

Exploring Knowledge Tracing in Tutor-Student Dialogues.

Alexander Scarlatos, Andrew S. Lan

CoRR, 2024

DiVERT: Distractor Generation with Variational Errors Represented as Text for Math Multiple-choice Questions.

Nigel Fernandez, Alexander Scarlatos, Simon Woodhead, Andrew S. Lan

CoRR, 2024

Exploring Automated Distractor Generation for Math Multiple-choice Questions via Large Language Models.

Wanyong Feng, Jaewook Lee, Hunter McNichols, Alexander Scarlatos, Digory Smith, Simon Woodhead, Nancy Otero Ornelas, Andrew S. Lan

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024, 2024

Adaptive Accompaniment with ReaLchords.

Yusong Wu, Tim Cooijmans, Kyle Kastner, Adam Roberts, Ian Simon, Alexander Scarlatos, Chris Donahue, Cassie Tarakajian, Shayegan Omidshafiei, Aaron C. Courville, Pablo Samuel Castro, Natasha Jaques, Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang

Proceedings of the Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning, 2024

DiVERT: Distractor Generation with Variational Errors Represented as Text for Math Multiple-choice Questions.

Nigel Fernandez, Alexander Scarlatos, Wanyong Feng, Simon Woodhead, Andrew S. Lan

Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024

Improving Automated Distractor Generation for Math Multiple-choice Questions with Overgenerate-and-rank.

Alexander Scarlatos, Wanyong Feng, Andrew S. Lan, Simon Woodhead, Digory Smith

Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2024

Improving the Validity of Automatically Generated Feedback via Reinforcement Learning.

Alexander Scarlatos, Digory Smith, Simon Woodhead, Andrew S. Lan

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 25th International Conference, 2024

SyllabusQA: A Course Logistics Question Answering Dataset.

Nigel Fernandez, Alexander Scarlatos, Andrew S. Lan

Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024

2023

Exploring Automated Distractor and Feedback Generation for Math Multiple-choice Questions via In-context Learning.

Hunter McNichols, Wanyong Feng, Jaewook Lee, Alexander Scarlatos, Digory Smith, Simon Woodhead, Andrew S. Lan

CoRR, 2023

RetICL: Sequential Retrieval of In-Context Examples with Reinforcement Learning.

Alexander Scarlatos, Andrew S. Lan

CoRR, 2023

Tree-Based Representation and Generation of Natural and Mathematical Language.

Alexander Scarlatos, Andrew S. Lan

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

2022

UMass PCL at SemEval-2022 Task 4: Pre-trained Language Model Ensembles for Detecting Patronizing and Condescending Language.

David Koleczek, Alexander Scarlatos, Preshma Linet Pereira, Siddha Makarand Karkare

Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval@NAACL 2022, 2022

Process-BERT: A Framework for Representation Learning on Educational Process Data.

Alexander Scarlatos, Christopher Brinton, Andrew S. Lan

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2022

2020

Sonispace: a simulated-space interface for sound design and experimentation.

Alexander Scarlatos

CoRR, 2020