Publications

Reinforcement Learning for Programming Feedback: Aligning Small Language Models Without Human Preferences

Charles Koutcheme, Nicola Dainese, Arto Hellas

9th Educational Data Mining in Computer Science Education (CSEDM) Workshop, May 2025

Direct Repair Optimization: Training Small Language Models For Educational Program Repair Improves Feedback

Charles Koutcheme, Nicola Dainese, Arto Hellas

20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, May 2025

Evaluating Language Models for Generating and Judging Programming Feedback

Charles Koutcheme, Nicola Dainese, Sami Sarsa, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen, Syed Ashraf, Paul Denny

56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, February 2025

Open Source Language Models Can Provide Feedback: Evaluating LLMs’ Ability to Help Students Using GPT-4-As-A-Judge

Charles Koutcheme, Nicola Dainese, Sami Sarsa, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny

International Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, July 2024

Using Program Repair as a Proxy for Language Models’ Feedback Ability in Programming Education

Charles Koutcheme, Nicola Dainese, Arto Hellas

19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2024), June 2024

Evaluating Distance Measures for Program Repair

Charles Koutcheme, Nicola Dainese, Sami Sarsa, Arto Hellas, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny

ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, 2023, September 2023

Training Language Models for Programming Feedback Using Automated Repair Tools

Charles Koutcheme

Artificial Intelligence in Education, June 2023

Automated Program Repair using Generative Models for Code Infilling

Charles Koutcheme, Sami Sarsa, Juho Leinonen, Arto Hellas, Paul Denny

Artificial Intelligence in Education, June 2023