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#1 UniEDU: Toward Unified and Efficient Large Multimodal Models for Educational Tasks [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi] [REL]

Authors: Zhendong Chu, Jian Xie, Shen Wang, Zichao Wang, Qingsong Wen

Education materials for K-12 students often consist of multiple modalities, such as text and images, posing challenges for models to fully understand nuanced information in these materials. In this paper, we propose a unified language and vision assistant UniEDU designed for various educational applications, including knowledge recommendation, knowledge tracing, time cost prediction, and user answer prediction, all within a single model. Unlike conventional task-specific models, UniEDU offers a unified solution that excels across multiple educational tasks while maintaining strong generalization capabilities. Its adaptability makes it well-suited for real-world deployment in diverse learning environments. Furthermore, UniEDU is optimized for industry-scale deployment by significantly reducing computational overhead—achieving approximately a 300% increase in efficiency—while maintaining competitive performance with minimal degradation compared to fully fine-tuned models. This work represents a significant step toward creating versatile AI systems tailored to the evolving demands of education.

Subject: EMNLP.2025 - Industry Track