通过解耦与协作学习,更精准诊断学生知识掌握状态。
Collaborative Cognitive Diagnosis with Disentangled Representation Learning for Learner Modeling

- 解耦编码器分离认知状态,提升可解释性。
- 动态构建学习者协作图,显著提升诊断准确率。
- 适合教育智能系统研发与个性化学习研究者。
具有相似隐含认知状态的学习者往往表现出类似的解题表现。利用这些相似学习者间的协同关系,有助于理解人类学习过程。受推荐系统等领域协同建模成功的启发,本文研究学习者间协同信号如何助力智能教育中的认知状态诊断(即知识掌握水平)。主要挑战在于识别隐含的协同关系,并解耦学习者的纠缠认知因素,以提升诊断的可解释性与可控性。现有研究尚无同时建模协同与解耦认知状态的方法。为此,提出Coral模型:首先使用解耦状态编码器实现初始状态解耦;再设计精细的协同表示学习流程,通过上下文感知方式迭代搜索最优邻居,动态构建学习者协作图;基于该图进行节点表示学习以提取协同信息;最后通过解码过程对齐初始认知状态与协同状态,实现与实际解题表现一致的联合解耦诊断。大量实验证明,Coral在多个真实数据集上优于当前最佳方法。代码已开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Learners sharing similar implicit cognitive states often display comparable observable problem-solving performances. Leveraging collaborative connections among such similar learners proves valuable in comprehending human learning. Motivated by the success of collaborative modeling in various domains, such as recommender systems, we aim to investigate how collaborative signals among learners contribute to the diagnosis of human cognitive states (i.e., knowledge proficiency) in the context of intelligent education. The primary challenges lie in identifying implicit collaborative connections and disentangling the entangled cognitive factors of learners for improved explainability and controllability in learner Cognitive Diagnosis (CD). However, there has been no work on CD capable of simultaneously modeling collaborative and disentangled cognitive states. To address this gap, we present Coral, a Collaborative cognitive diagnosis model with disentangled representation learning. Specifically, Coral first introduces a disentangled state encoder to achieve the initial disentanglement of learners' states. Subsequently, a meticulously designed collaborative representation learning procedure captures collaborative signals. It dynamically constructs a collaborative graph of learners by iteratively searching for optimal neighbors in a context-aware manner. Using the constructed graph, collaborative information is extracted through node representation learning. Finally, a decoding process aligns the initial cognitive states and collaborative states, achieving co-disentanglement with practice performance reconstructions. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superior performance of Coral, showcasing significant improvements over state-of-the-art methods across several real-world datasets. Our code is available at https://github.com/bigdata-ustc/Coral.
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