FoL 2026
AIED

Misconception Acquisition Dynamics of Large Language Models

Wed Jul 1, 4:35 PM–5:00 PM · North 202
★ Notable speakers
Richard Baraniuk ★★ — Founder of OpenStax open educational resources; open education movement; signal processing and compressive sensing
Shashank Sonkar — Pedagogical alignment of LLMs; cognitive modeling of student reasoning; AI in education at scale

Investigates how large language models acquire and propagate misconceptions, examining the dynamics of that process.

Authors

Naiming Liu, Xinghe Chen, Richard Baraniuk, Shashank Sonkar