DeepEdu-v1: Efficient and Scalable Agentic LLMs for Vietnamese Education

arXiv:2609.31568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI tutoring could markedly improve learning outcomes for students in developing regions such as Vietnam, yet the two obvious paths both fall short. Cloud assistants such as ChatGPT route sensitive student data to foreign servers---violating data-sovereignty laws such as Vietnam's Decree 53---and, pre-trained on Western-centric corpora, are not organized around the national textbook curriculum, so their knowledge of local content is unsystematic and frequently hallucinated. Self-hosting an open model keeps data on-premise but hits a two-fold wall: post-training quantization (AWQ, GPTQ) tames the static weight footprint, yet the dynamic KV cache and prefill latency of long tutoring contexts still cause out-of-memory failures and slow responses on consumer GPUs, while the model keeps hallucinating on region-specific material. We present DeepEdu-v1, an AI-tutoring system for Vietnamese education built on SCALE (Self-improving Context-Aware Learning Engine), a framework with two innovations. First, a long-context inference engine amortizes token selection from per-sub-chunk to per-cluster granularity; on long-context retrieval it issues x7.7 fewer retrieval calls than a state-of-the-art selective-attention baseline, cutting prefill latency (TTFT) by roughly 35% while matching or improving task accuracy. Second, a self-improving agentic layer continuously curates a verified playbook from past interactions instead of fine-tuning, a design intended to progressively reduce reliance on dominant-language priors as trustworthy local knowledge accumulates. In its deployed configuration, DeepEdu achieves a nearly x2 TTFT speedup over standard vLLM serving and lifts agentic accuracy from 70.0% to 79.5% on complex tasks, with the strongest per-track gains across financial-reasoning and interactive-agent benchmarks.

Abstract:AI tutoring could markedly improve learning outcomes for students in developing regions such as Vietnam, yet the two obvious paths both fall short. Cloud assistants such as ChatGPT route sensitive student data to foreign servers---violating data-sovereignty laws such as Vietnam's Decree 53---and, pre-trained on Western-centric corpora, are not organized around the national textbook curriculum, so their knowledge of local content is unsystematic and frequently hallucinated. Self-hosting an open model keeps data on-premise but hits a two-fold wall: post-training quantization (AWQ, GPTQ) tames the static weight footprint, yet the dynamic KV cache and prefill latency of long tutoring contexts still cause out-of-memory failures and slow responses on consumer GPUs, while the model keeps hallucinating on region-specific material. We present DeepEdu-v1, an AI-tutoring system for Vietnamese education built on SCALE (Self-improving Context-Aware Learning Engine), a framework with two innovations. First, a long-context inference engine amortizes token selection from per-sub-chunk to per-cluster granularity; on long-context retrieval it issues x7.7 fewer retrieval calls than a state-of-the-art selective-attention baseline, cutting prefill latency (TTFT) by roughly 35% while matching or improving task accuracy. Second, a self-improving agentic layer continuously curates a verified playbook from past interactions instead of fine-tuning, a design intended to progressively reduce reliance on dominant-language priors as trustworthy local knowledge accumulates. In its deployed configuration, DeepEdu achieves a nearly x2 TTFT speedup over standard vLLM serving and lifts agentic accuracy from 70.0% to 79.5% on complex tasks, with the strongest per-track gains across financial-reasoning and interactive-agent benchmarks.

Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

arXiv:2609.31568 [cs.AI]

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