FoL 2026
EDM

Temperature and Persona Shape LLM Agent Consensus With Minimal Accuracy Gains in Qualitative Coding

Wed Jul 1, 2:25 PM–2:50 PM · North 202
★ Notable speakers
Conrad Borchers — AI-supported self-regulated learning; intelligent tutoring systems; educational data mining; ordered network analysis

Finds that varying LLM agent temperature and persona shapes consensus outcomes in qualitative coding tasks, but produces only minimal accuracy gains.

Authors

Conrad Borchers, Bahar Shahrokhian, Francesco Balzan, Elham Tajik, Sreecharan Sankaranarayanan, Sebastian Simon