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author LearnLM Team
Modi, Abhinit
Veerubhotla, Aditya Srikanth
Rysbek, Aliya
Huber, Andrea
Anand, Ankit
Bhoopchand, Avishkar
Wiltshire, Brett
Gillick, Daniel
Kasenberg, Daniel
Sgouritsa, Eleni
Elidan, Gal
Liu, Hengrui
Winnemoeller, Holger
Jurenka, Irina
Cohan, James
She, Jennifer
Wilkowski, Julia
Alarakyia, Kaiz
McKee, Kevin R.
Singh, Komal
Wang, Lisa
Kunesch, Markus
Pîslar, Miruna
Efron, Niv
Mahmoudieh, Parsa
Kamienny, Pierre-Alexandre
Wiltberger, Sara
Mohamed, Shakir
Agarwal, Shashank
Phal, Shubham Milind
Lee, Sun Jae
Strinopoulos, Theofilos
Ko, Wei-Jen
Gold-Zamir, Yael
Haramaty, Yael
Assael, Yannis
author_facet LearnLM Team
Modi, Abhinit
Veerubhotla, Aditya Srikanth
Rysbek, Aliya
Huber, Andrea
Anand, Ankit
Bhoopchand, Avishkar
Wiltshire, Brett
Gillick, Daniel
Kasenberg, Daniel
Sgouritsa, Eleni
Elidan, Gal
Liu, Hengrui
Winnemoeller, Holger
Jurenka, Irina
Cohan, James
She, Jennifer
Wilkowski, Julia
Alarakyia, Kaiz
McKee, Kevin R.
Singh, Komal
Wang, Lisa
Kunesch, Markus
Pîslar, Miruna
Efron, Niv
Mahmoudieh, Parsa
Kamienny, Pierre-Alexandre
Wiltberger, Sara
Mohamed, Shakir
Agarwal, Shashank
Phal, Shubham Milind
Lee, Sun Jae
Strinopoulos, Theofilos
Ko, Wei-Jen
Gold-Zamir, Yael
Haramaty, Yael
Assael, Yannis
contents Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to transform education, but the research community lacks a robust, general benchmark to evaluate AI models for learning. To assess state-of-the-art support for educational use cases, we ran an "arena for learning" where educators and pedagogy experts conduct blind, head-to-head, multi-turn comparisons of leading AI models. In particular, $N = 189$ educators drew from their experience to role-play realistic learning use cases, interacting with two models sequentially, after which $N = 206$ experts judged which model better supported the user's learning goals. The arena evaluated a slate of state-of-the-art models: Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4o, and OpenAI o3. Excluding ties, experts preferred Gemini 2.5 Pro in 73.2% of these match-ups -- ranking it first overall in the arena. Gemini 2.5 Pro also demonstrated markedly higher performance across key principles of good pedagogy. Altogether, these results position Gemini 2.5 Pro as a leading model for learning.
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spellingShingle Evaluating Gemini in an arena for learning
LearnLM Team
Modi, Abhinit
Veerubhotla, Aditya Srikanth
Rysbek, Aliya
Huber, Andrea
Anand, Ankit
Bhoopchand, Avishkar
Wiltshire, Brett
Gillick, Daniel
Kasenberg, Daniel
Sgouritsa, Eleni
Elidan, Gal
Liu, Hengrui
Winnemoeller, Holger
Jurenka, Irina
Cohan, James
She, Jennifer
Wilkowski, Julia
Alarakyia, Kaiz
McKee, Kevin R.
Singh, Komal
Wang, Lisa
Kunesch, Markus
Pîslar, Miruna
Efron, Niv
Mahmoudieh, Parsa
Kamienny, Pierre-Alexandre
Wiltberger, Sara
Mohamed, Shakir
Agarwal, Shashank
Phal, Shubham Milind
Lee, Sun Jae
Strinopoulos, Theofilos
Ko, Wei-Jen
Gold-Zamir, Yael
Haramaty, Yael
Assael, Yannis
Computers and Society
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to transform education, but the research community lacks a robust, general benchmark to evaluate AI models for learning. To assess state-of-the-art support for educational use cases, we ran an "arena for learning" where educators and pedagogy experts conduct blind, head-to-head, multi-turn comparisons of leading AI models. In particular, $N = 189$ educators drew from their experience to role-play realistic learning use cases, interacting with two models sequentially, after which $N = 206$ experts judged which model better supported the user's learning goals. The arena evaluated a slate of state-of-the-art models: Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4o, and OpenAI o3. Excluding ties, experts preferred Gemini 2.5 Pro in 73.2% of these match-ups -- ranking it first overall in the arena. Gemini 2.5 Pro also demonstrated markedly higher performance across key principles of good pedagogy. Altogether, these results position Gemini 2.5 Pro as a leading model for learning.
title Evaluating Gemini in an arena for learning
topic Computers and Society
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24477