EduChat (this https URL) is a large-scale language model
(LLM)-based chatbot system in the education domain. Its goal is to support
personalized, fair, and compassionate intelligent education, serving teachers,
students, and parents. Guided by theories from psychology and education, it
further strengthens educational functions such as open question answering,
essay assessment, Socratic teaching, and emotional support based on the
existing basic LLMs. Particularly, we learn domain-specific knowledge by
pre-training on the educational corpus and stimulate various skills with tool
use by fine-tuning on designed system prompts and instructions. Currently,
EduChat is available online as an open-source project, with its code, data, and
model parameters available on platforms (e.g., GitHub
this https URL, Hugging Face
this https URL ). We also prepare a demonstration of its
capabilities online (this https URL). This initiative aims to
promote research and applications of LLMs for intelligent education.

EduChat 是一个基于大规模语言模型（LLM）的教育领域聊天机器人系统，旨在支持个性化、公平、有爱心的智能教育，为教师、学生和家长提供支持。它通过在教育语料库上进行预训练来学习领域特定知识，并通过在设计的系统提示和指令上进行微调来刺激各种技能。目前，EduChat 作为一个开源项目在线上提供，其代码、数据和模型参数可在平台上获得。这项倡议旨在促进基于 LLMs 的智能教育的研究与应用。