'AI Avengers' Upstage, Paper Accepted at International Academic Conference

Fruits of Joint Research with Ice Cream Edu

[Asia Economy Reporter Cha Min-young] AI startup Upstage announced on the 8th that its paper on deep learning-based edutech technology was accepted at the international academic conference 'The Web Conference 2022.'

Upstage conducted this research in collaboration with Icecream Edu, which operates the elementary and middle school smart learning platform 'Icecream Home Run.' The two companies have jointly researched AI-based non-face-to-face education technology to advance the 'knowledge tracing AI' model for hyper-personalized learning.

This paper is significant as the first study to introduce 'contrastive learning,' a deep learning technique that extracts useful information from the unique patterns of the data itself in knowledge tracing. According to the company, this method can produce more effective results than previous unidirectional research approaches.

The jointly developed deep learning technology is being applied and tested in Icecream Edu's Icecream Home Run math service. There are plans to expand the application of this technology to other subjects beyond math within this year.

Kim Seong-hoon, CEO of Upstage, said, “It is quite difficult for an edutech paper to be accepted at a conference covering the entire field of information technology. The acceptance of the deep learning technology 'DKT' paper at this Web Conference, where only 17% of submitted papers were accepted, means we have reached the world’s highest level.”

Meanwhile, this year’s Web Conference is hosted by the University of Lyon in France and will be held online from April 25 to 29. Since the first event in 1994, a record 1,822 papers were submitted this year, but only 323 papers (17.7%) were accepted.

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