TY - GEN
T1 - A Gateway for Egalitarian Access to LLM Based Resources
AU - Mithun, Paul
AU - Noriega-Atala, Enrique
AU - Merchant, Nirav
AU - Skidmore, Edwin
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - We present AI-VERDE , a unified LLM-as-a-platform service designed to facilitate seamless integration of commercial, cloud-hosted, and on-premise open LLMs in academic settings. AI-VERDE streamlines access management for instructional and research groups by providing features such as robust access control, privacy-preserving mechanisms, native Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) support, budget management for third-party LLM services, and both a conversational web interface and API access. In a pilot deployment at a large public university, AI-VERDE demonstrated significant engagement across diverse educational and research groups, enabling activities that would typically require substantial budgets for commercial LLM services with limited user and team management capabilities. To the best of our knowledge, AI-Verde is the first platform to address both academic and research needs for LLMs within an higher education institutional framework.
AB - We present AI-VERDE , a unified LLM-as-a-platform service designed to facilitate seamless integration of commercial, cloud-hosted, and on-premise open LLMs in academic settings. AI-VERDE streamlines access management for instructional and research groups by providing features such as robust access control, privacy-preserving mechanisms, native Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) support, budget management for third-party LLM services, and both a conversational web interface and API access. In a pilot deployment at a large public university, AI-VERDE demonstrated significant engagement across diverse educational and research groups, enabling activities that would typically require substantial budgets for commercial LLM services with limited user and team management capabilities. To the best of our knowledge, AI-Verde is the first platform to address both academic and research needs for LLMs within an higher education institutional framework.
KW - GenerativeAI
KW - LLM
KW - VERDE
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105012426679
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105012426679#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-99261-2_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-99261-2_13
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783031992605
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 137
EP - 146
BT - Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners, Doctoral Consortium, Blue Sky, and WideAIED - 26th International Conference, AIED 2025, Proceedings
A2 - Cristea, Alexandra I.
A2 - Walker, Erin
A2 - Lu, Yu
A2 - Santos, Olga C.
A2 - Isotani, Seiji
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - Poster papers and late breaking results, workshops and tutorials, practitioners, industry and policy track, doctoral consortium, blue sky and wideAIED papers presented at the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2025
Y2 - 22 July 2025 through 26 July 2025
ER -