Summary of Knowledge Distillation in Rnn-attention Models For Early Prediction Of Student Performance, by Sukrit Leelaluk et al.
Knowledge Distillation in RNN-Attention Models for Early Prediction of Student Performance
by Sukrit Leelaluk, Cheng Tang, Valdemar Švábenský, Atsushi Shimada
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers in educational data mining (EDM) develop a novel framework to predict at-risk students early throughout a course using Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and knowledge distillation (KD). The proposed RNN-Attention-KD model leverages the strengths of RNNs to handle time-sequence data and employs an attention mechanism to focus on relevant time steps for improved predictive accuracy. The framework is tested on datasets from four years of a university course, achieving recall and F1-measure of 0.49 and 0.51 for Weeks 1-3 and 0.51 and 0.61 for Weeks 1-6, outperforming traditional neural network models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The researchers in this paper are trying to help teachers identify students who might be struggling early on in a course. They use special kinds of artificial intelligence called recurrent neural networks (RNNs) that can understand sequences of events over time. The RNNs are trained using data from online learning platforms and are designed to predict how well each student will do at different points in the course. This could help teachers provide extra support to students who need it, which might reduce dropout rates. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Dropout » Knowledge distillation » Neural network » Online learning » Recall » Rnn
