Problem
Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.
Educational Foundation Models
Curriculum Structure
Learner Difficulties
Instructional Support
OmniEdu: Open Foundation Models for Learning and Teaching
🤖 AI Summary
OmniEdu通过整合多种教育资源和能力导向的训练方法，改进了教育基础模型在解决问题、理解课程结构和支持教学方面的能力。
📝 Abstract
Educational foundation models must solve problems, understand curriculum structure, diagnose learner difficulties, and provide appropriate instructional support. Existing educational language models often focus on either problem solving or tutoring, with training mixtures organized by source or task rather than capability. We present OmniEdu, an open family of foundation models for K-12 learning and teaching. Its instruction-tuning corpus combines over 100 educational resources and general instruction sources, organized around four capabilities: subject competence, curriculum grounding, diagnostic reasoning, and pedagogical action and scaffolding. Our pipeline integrates deterministic cleaning, semantic auditing and rewriting, task-specific quality scoring, token-budgeted diversity selection, and pedagogical instruction assignment. It yields 69,999 examples and 15.96M supervised response tokens, including 60,951 education-specific examples. We fine-tune 4B, 9B, and 27B models and evaluate curriculum grounding, K-12 problem solving, and pedagogical tutoring, alongside general capability. Education-oriented tuning consistently improves all three educational benchmark groups across model scales. OmniEdu-27B achieves 63.12% EM and 76.69% F1 on K12-Bench, 85.89% on MathFish, 86.95% on EDUMATH, and 78.74% in MathTutorBench's Scaffold setting. It also achieves the highest Teaching average on LongTutor among the evaluated models, at 3.02. These results demonstrate the value of curated, capability-balanced supervision for adapting general language models to educational tasks spanning problem solving, curriculum understanding, and instructional support.
Innovation
Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.
Educational Foundation Models
Instruction-Tuning Corpus
Capability-Balanced Supervision
K-12 Learning and Teaching
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