EduMAS: A Novel LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Framework for Educational Support
Qiaomu Li, Ying Xie, Sumit Chakravarty, Dabae Lee · 2024
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.