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LLMs Are Already Good Tutors: Training-Free Prompt Optimization for Pedagogical Math Tutoring

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Main Authors:	Lee, Unggi, Shin, Minchul, Jeong, Yeil, Lee, Sookbun, Moon, Jeongsu, Joo, Kyungtae, Lee, Eunjoo, Kwon, Hoilym
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language Machine Learning
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