At the recently concluded 83rd China Education Equipment Exhibition, TAL (Xueersi) Smart Education showcased its latest innovations, including the MathGPT, digital teaching solutions, after-school programs, and Xueersi smart learning aids. The exhibition booth drew crowds of attendees and industry professionals eager to experience: The  MathGPT problem-solving and Q&A capabilities on learning tablets, Hands-on, creatively designed STEM kits and aerospace teaching tools that blend education with entertainment. Intelligent teaching aids that garnered significant interest from parentsThese offerings reflect TAL’s commitment to integrating pedagogical research, resources, and technology into smart education solutions. By advancing digital transformation in education and opening its technological capabilities to partners, TAL aims to drive collective growth in the intelligent education sector.

The latest educational "black technology" achievements attracted a lot of onlookers.

"If students don't understand a question, they can point to it with their fingers..." The staff placed the "smart eye" on top of the Xueersi Xpad, and the experiencer gently pointed at the question, and the smart eye immediately activated the photo mode. The large model was instantly activated, "First, the large model understands the question, then it starts to answer and can provide a solution, explaining the steps to the student."

At this exhibition, Xueersi Smart Education focused on its latest achievements in the field of artificial intelligence, especially "MathGPT." In May 2023, Xueersi began the research and development of self-study large models. This exhibition showcased the technology based on the MathGPT, with autonomous learning, AI Q&A, and intelligent correction of Chinese and English compositions, which was eye-catching.

At the same time, Xueersi Smart Education also showcased a complete set of digital teaching solutions at this equipment exhibition, covering lesson preparation, exams, homework, and AI autonomous learning to meet the digital teaching/learning needs of schools, teachers, and students.

How can digital teaching solutions optimize the teaching and learning process? Cong Longfei, head of Xueersi Smart Education Solutions, introduced that the intelligent homework system provides a comprehensive homework solution with "content + tools + services", supporting schools to conduct unified homework, hierarchical homework, and "personalized homework for thousands of people."

"Our solution does not change students' and teachers' habits of writing and correcting papers. Data on student learning is collected imperceptibly, and the system automatically corrects using AI technology, truly reducing the burden on teachers and students, and precise teaching," said Cong Longfei.

It is reported that the intelligent teaching solution for lesson preparation provides a "lesson preparation + class" scene aiding solution for schools and teachers. Based on Xueersi's 20 years of teaching and research and product development, teachers can complete question lookup, paper compilation, production of teaching materials, interactive courseware, recording and editing small videos, and playing courseware on the platform to quickly and efficiently prepare for each class.

With the rapid development of science and technology, "AI + Education" has become a new education model that will expand the coverage of quality education and let more students share high-quality education. At the same time, "technological innovation" has gradually become the core driving force of future education.

Xueersi Smart Education makes an appearance at the 83rd China Education Equipment Exhibition. Photo provided by the interviewee

Displaying the latest achievements in the "AI + education" field

"Just as the chip is to the phone, the MathGPT is the AI chip of the Xueersi Xpad. Xueersi's high-quality content plus the MathGPT, good content + good AI, creates the next generation learning machine," said Tian Mi, CTO of Xueersi Group, on a public occasion.

Currently, Xueersi's self-developed content system, precise learning in all scenarios, and multi-AI capabilities based on the self-developed big model, are all presented on the Xueersi Xpad.

The MathGPT is independently developed by Xueersi and is a large model core based on problem-solving and algorithmic teaching for global math enthusiasts and research institutions. In addition to mathematics, it also has problem-solving and teaching abilities in multiple disciplines such as Chinese, English, physics, and chemistry. At present, in addition to solving math problems, the AI intelligent composition correction of the MathGPT has also been implemented on the learning machine.

What changes does the application of large model technology bring to Xpad? Cong Longfei pointed out that before applying the MathGPT , the learning machine was mainly based on built-in resources, and students could learn, but could not ask questions. When students encountered questions they didn't know, they could take pictures to search for the answers, but whether the question could be answered depended on whether the question was in the question bank. However, no question bank from any company can be infinite. After the application of large model technology, it has the ability to solve questions on its own. Even if there are no ready-made answers, the large model can answer them on its own. This is a complete technological upgrade, and for students, they can both learn and ask questions, forming a closed-loop learning behavior.

With the continuous deepening of large model technology in the field of mathematical applications, its application scenarios have expanded to multiple levels such as solving math problems, data analysis, academic research, and learning guidance. Cong Longfei revealed that with the improvement of the MathGPT abilities in subjects such as physics, biology, English, and Chinese, more innovative experiences will be brought to the educational scene.

It is reported that the MathGPT completed the relevant filing and passed the review in November 2023, making it the first batch of education large models to be filed.

Xueersi Smart Education's booth attracted many participating spectators and industry professionals to experience. Photo provided by the interviewee

Using AI technology to drive the digitization of education

These application achievements demonstrate Xueersi's technological strength in the field of artificial intelligence.

In addition to the MathGPT, in smart education, the comprehensive intelligent homework solution developed by Xueersi is also an important part. Smart homework refers to a "content + tools + service" comprehensive homework solution, which supports schools to use digital tools to carry out unified homework, hierarchical homework, and "personalized homework for thousands of people", thereby enhancing student learning effects, reducing the burden on students, and ultimately improving the quality and efficiency of education and teaching.

It is reported that Xueersi's smart homework integrates artificial intelligence, big data, knowledge graphs, and other technologies and has achieved three major technological innovations compared to similar technology applications: First, using knowledge graphs to achieve more intelligent personalized homework recommendations in line with educational laws; Second, combining software and hardware, without changing the existing habits of paper writing and correcting, it achieves automatic homework correction; Third, it has realized OCR recognition automatic correction function, which accomplishes objective question automatic correction with an accuracy rate of >98%.

In terms of homework correction, Xueersi has achieved two forms - manual correction by dot-matrix pens and automatic scanning correction. Both methods achieve visualized analysis of the mastery of knowledge points by each student. Teachers can generate visualized learning reports through the platform and conduct targeted lesson preparation based on simple analysis, making precise breakthroughs for common weaknesses in the class.

In August 2022, Xueersi summarized its strategic direction at the 19th anniversary celebration: using advanced scientific and technological capabilities to help families learn and grow, and to help the industry's "digital intelligence" transformation; through technological innovation, to develop intelligent learning hardware and software. Science, education, and innovation have become the keywords.

From its inception, Xueersi has always attached great importance to investment in scientific and technological innovation. Xueersi established the "AI lab" in 2017; in 2019, the Ministry of Science and Technology approved the construction of the "National New Generation Artificial Intelligence Open Innovation Platform for Smart Education" based on Xueersi. Subsequently, this platform officially launched the AI Cloud Classroom, opening up various educational technology resources including AI infrastructure platforms, AI capabilities, datasets, and educational technology solutions.

With the support and empowerment of the National New Generation Artificial Intelligence Open Innovation Platform for Smart Education, in recent years, Xueersi has won 17 championships in various top academic conferences and competitions, 6 second prizes; published 70 high-level academic papers in international journals and conferences, covering academic research in multiple fields such as optical character recognition, images, natural language processing, speech, and multimodal, with multiple papers published in top conferences on computer vision and natural language processing; and obtained more than 200 authorized patents and more than 80 software copyrights.

Relevant officials of Xueersi stated that they will fully play the leading role of leading companies in the industry together with research institutions, and take the major needs of the education industry as a guide. These technologies will be combined with advanced AI technologies such as large models and AIGC, to create a smart education solution that integrates educational research, resources, and technology to promote the digitization of education, open up technological capabilities to enterprises, and promote the development of the smart education industry together.

Reprinted from the Beijing News: https://m.bjnews.com.cn/detail/1713878547169978.html