通过重构学生表征与缓解类别不平衡,提升个性化知识追踪精度
Personalized Knowledge Tracing through Student Representation Reconstruction and Class Imbalance Mitigation
- 从学习交互序列中重建学生表征,捕捉个体差异
- 引入焦点损失,显著提升对少数类的预测能力
- 在4个公开数据集上超越16种先进模型,适合教育智能研究者
知识追踪通过分析学生在智能教育平台上的历史交互行为,预测其未来表现,实现对知识掌握程度的精准评估。近期研究借助强大的深度神经网络取得显著进展,通过问题、技能等辅助信息构建复杂输入表征,但忽略了个体学生特征,限制了个性化评估能力。此外,该领域数据集普遍存在类别不平衡问题,简单地将所有回答预测为正确也能获得较高准确率。本文提出PKT方法,通过重构学生在教学平台上的交互序列表征,挖掘潜在学生特征;同时引入焦点损失,强化对少数类别的关注,实现更均衡的预测。在四个公开教育数据集上的大量实验表明,PKT在预测性能上优于16种现有先进模型。为保证研究可复现性,代码已公开于https://anonymous.4open.science/r/PKT。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Knowledge tracing is a technique that predicts students' future performance by analyzing their learning process through historical interactions with intelligent educational platforms, enabling a precise evaluation of their knowledge mastery. Recent studies have achieved significant progress by leveraging powerful deep neural networks. These models construct complex input representations using questions, skills, and other auxiliary information but overlook individual student characteristics, which limits the capability for personalized assessment. Additionally, the available datasets in the field exhibit class imbalance issues. The models that simply predict all responses as correct without substantial effort can yield impressive accuracy. In this paper, we propose PKT, a novel approach for personalized knowledge tracing. PKT reconstructs representations from sequences of interactions with a tutoring platform to capture latent information about the students. Moreover, PKT incorporates focal loss to improve prioritize minority classes, thereby achieving more balanced predictions. Extensive experimental results on four publicly available educational datasets demonstrate the advanced predictive performance of PKT in comparison with 16 state-of-the-art models. To ensure the reproducibility of our research, the code is publicly available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/PKT.
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