@inproceedings{jacobs-etal-2026-much, title = "How Much Does Hyperparameter Tuning Actually Help? An Efficiency Survey for Fine-Tuning Transformers to Score Mathematics-Explanation Items", author = "Jacobs, Gregory M. and Bediwy, Ahmed H. and Bellows, Martha", editor = "Wilson, Joshua and Ormerod, Christopher and Beiting-Parrish, Magdalen", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference ({AIME}-Con): Works in Progress", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States", publisher = "National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.aimecon-wip.26/", pages = "200--206", ISBN = "979-8-9983004-1-7" }