In general, educational support with Large Language Models (LLMs) faces challenges in knowledge organization, expertise integration, and contextual adaptation. So, we present EduMAS, a novel multi-agent framework that coordinates specialized agents with graph-based knowledge navigation. Our framework introduces three key innovations: (1) Specialized Agents that provide expertise in different learning aspects to solve decomposed subtasks professionally; (2) Graph Navigator for graph-based knowledge extraction and selection to improve the quality of responses; (3) The Emotional Awareness mechanism for better contextual adaptation. Through comprehensive experiments on college-level physics education and evaluated by six state-of-the-art LLMs, EduMAS demonstrates significant improvements over the baseline model in complex concept integration, cross-disciplinary understanding, and theory-to-application translation. Ablation studies further validate the contribution of each framework component, Specialized Agents and Graph Navigator play important roles in performance improvement. Our work provides strong support for LLM-powered multi-agent system in AI-assisted education.

Food deserts are geographic areas where people have limited access to healthy and affordable food. Millions of people in the US are experiencing adverse effects stemming from living in such areas and it becomes an important challenge for federal and local authorities to improve the quality of life of people living in food deserts. The majority of studies in this field explicitly consider income level when analyzing problems of food deserts, thus shadowing other attributes that might provide deeper insights into the problems of the food desert’s population. The current paper assesses the significance of subtler, non-income related characteristics of census tracts by using a new variable attribution technique Appley which approximates Shapley values in linear time. The results show that attributes of census tracts that fall into the set of the so called "social determinants of health" have similar classification power compared to models that explicitly use income variables. The results suggest that each food desert has its own unique set of problems with social determinants of health with varying levels of intensities of each problem and this allows to clearly distinguish not only food deserts from non-food desert areas but also distinguish food deserts from each other. Appley attributes localized importance scores to food deserts’ social determinants of health, thus showing which issues are more severe in a given food desert compared to another one. This allows for devising food desert-specific solutions to the health issues of desert residents thus letting authorities improve the quality of life of people in a targeted and budget-efficient manner.

Heart disease has become the leading cause of death worldwide. In this paper a feature based on the Tunable Q Wavelet Transform is proposed to detect the abnormal heart sound. The 2016 PhysioNet / CinC heart audio database is used for developing the model. Machine learning models: Random Forest (RF) and Vector Support Machine (SVM) are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed feature. An average accuracy of 86.92% is achieved on the test data using the SVM classifier. The proposed feature showed better performance compared to the existing time and frequency domain features.

Tracking the concentration of students during online learning offers great benefits. For examples, distracted students can be suggested to do a brief exercise to refresh their brains; or the teacher can be notified when too many students have difficulties on concentration so the class could take a short break. Traditionally, mental states like concentration levels can be analyzed using Electroencephalogram (EEG) or Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS). However, methods that utilize these data require specialized equipment which is not feasible to deploy on a large scale. On the other hand, recent breakthroughs in deep learning provide possibilities of scalable solutions to detect concentration levels using only webcam. Leveraging this advancement, we investigate the task of tracking students’ concentration levels during online learning using facial data coupled with deep learning based computer vision technologies. More specifically, we examine the performances of different representations of facial data integrated with various deep architectures to empirically determine a solution balanced between prediction accuracy and time efficiency that is suitable for real-time application. Our experimental study shows that the proposed solution achieves over 91% accuracy while keeping execution time low enough for real-time deployment.

This paper proposes a new deep learning architecture that aligns human poses to be used in an exercise/rehabilitation assistant system. In short, the assistant system aims to provide users with visual feedback for their physical exercises. The feedback is generated by first extracting a user's poses while they are performing an exercise through the video feed of the session. The extracted poses are then overlaid with the correct poses and display for the user to observe and fix their errors. This paper focuses on the task of aligning the user's pose with the correct pose so that they can be overlaid on each other with minimal differences, including scales, locations, and perspectives. We design a new deep architecture to accomplish this task, and show that our methods can effectively reduce alignment errors by 70% on average.

This paper explores a new method for representing temporal information found in videos. Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD), a method commonly used to reduce the computational effort for other big-data tasks such as flow calculations, is used in this study to aggregate changes between multiple frames. This is applied to the challenge of human action recognition (HAR) tasks using a Two-Stream architecture. Such an architecture takes two convolutional neural networks (CNNs), one analyzing the spatial data and the other analyzing the temporal data as calculated using DMD. This method is compared against others using two common benchmarks, the UCF-101 dataset and the HMDB-51 dataset, achieving 46.0% accuracy on the UCF-101 and 30.8% on the HMDB-51.

Data Mining often suffers from the curse of dimensionality. Huge numbers of dimensions or attributes in the data pose serious problems to the data mining tasks. Traditionally data dimensionality reduction techniques like Principal Component Analysis have been used to address this problem.However, the need might be to remain in the original attribute space and identify the key predictive attributes instead of moving to a transformed space. As a result feature subset selection has become an important area of research over the last few years.