DICE: Decoupling Capability from Intervention Necessity in LLM Tutoring

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arXiv:2610.04825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fluent guidance is not the same as useful intervention. LLM tutors are typically trained to generate the next teacher utterance, implicitly assuming that every student turn warrants a response. However, our experiments indicate that this conflates tutoring capability (what to say) with intervention necessity (whether to say it). We introduce DICE, a framework that decouples intervention decisions from response generation by first selecting an expli