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Campus AI Tutor CourseChat Evaluates LLM Trade-offs for Business Education

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Researchers have developed CourseChat, an on-premises RAG tutor designed for undergraduate business education, integrated with Moodle. The system utilizes local LLMs served by Ollama and FastAPI, with a focus on hardware-software trade-offs for campus deployment. Initial evaluations showed that while some larger models struggled with speed requirements, a 12B model and a 7B alternative were viable, leading to the selection of an 8B production model for its balance of performance and accuracy. AI

IMPACT This research highlights practical considerations for deploying RAG-based AI tutors in educational settings, focusing on model selection and infrastructure.

RANK_REASON The item is a research paper detailing the development and evaluation of a specific AI application (CourseChat) and its underlying technical trade-offs. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Campus AI Tutor CourseChat Evaluates LLM Trade-offs for Business Education

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Sidney Shapiro, Joshua Lindemann ·

    On-Premises Multi-Course RAG Tutoring for Business Education: Hardware-Software Trade-offs in a Campus AI Tutor

    arXiv:2610.02510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Campus AI tutors based on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) must ground answers in assigned course materials while keeping textbooks and student dialogue on institutional infrastructure. We present CourseChat, an on-premises, mul…

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