TRACE-BN: Transferring Bangla-English Tutoring Behavior to a Sub-1B Offline Language Model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.15223v1
• Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:19:17 GMT
• Title: TRACE-BN: Transferring Bangla-English Tutoring Behavior to a Sub-1B Offline Language Model
• Abstract summary: We present TRACE-BN, a curriculum-guided dataset of structured tutoring traces for Bangla-speaking learners of English.<n>Traces are generated by Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite as the teacher model from NCTB Classes 9-10 English curriculum units.<n>Results show that curriculum-guided structured supervision can transfer multi-component tutoring behavior to a sub-1B model.
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• Abstract: Bangla-English tutoring requires more than producing a correct translation: learners also need explanations of grammar differences, awareness of their likely errors, and targeted practice. We present TRACE-BN, a curriculum-guided dataset of structured tutoring traces for Bangla-speaking learners of English at the CEFR A1-A2 level. Each trace combines word-level glosses, literal and natural translations, Bangla grammar explanations, a plausible learner error, and a targeted practice question with its answer. The traces are generated by Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite as the teacher model from NCTB Classes 9-10 English curriculum units, then filtered for structural validity, script integrity, and semantic duplication. We transfer the resulting structured tutoring behavior to Qwen3-0.6B using LoRA with 4-bit quantization for resource-constrained offline deployment. On held-out inputs, schema validity increases from 85.4% to 95.8%, while, against teacher-model references, chrF++ improves from 15.28 to 34.77 and BLEU from 4.52 to 21.03. Field-level evaluation by two independent judges shows improvements across translation, grammar explanation, learner-error diagnosis, and practice alignment, while a human audit supports the quality of the supervision data. The results show that curriculum-guided structured supervision can transfer multi-component tutoring behavior to a sub-1B model under these resource constraints. The dataset, model checkpoints, and code are publicly available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/RaiyanKhaan/Trace-BN

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