Summary of Towards Robust Knowledge Tracing Models Via K-sparse Attention, by Shuyan Huang et al.
Towards Robust Knowledge Tracing Models via k-Sparse Attention
by Shuyan Huang, Zitao Liu, Xiangyu Zhao, Weiqi Luo, Jian Weng
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed framework, called sparseKT, aims to improve the robustness and generalization of attention-based deep learning models for knowledge tracing. By incorporating a k-selection module that only picks items with the highest attention scores, sparseKT helps attentional KT models eliminate irrelevant student interactions. The authors introduce two sparsification heuristics: soft-thresholding sparse attention and top-K sparse attention. They demonstrate that sparseKT achieves comparable predictive performance to 11 state-of-the-art KT models on three real-world educational datasets. The framework is implemented in the PyKT toolkit, making it easy to reproduce the results. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary sparseKT is a new approach for improving the performance of deep learning-based knowledge tracing (DLKT) models. These models are used to predict students’ future performance based on their past interactions with educational materials. DLKT models often use attention mechanisms to focus on the most relevant information, but this can sometimes lead to overfitting if the model is given too much data. To fix this problem, the authors developed a simple framework that only uses the most important student interactions. They tested their framework on three real-world datasets and found that it worked just as well as some of the best existing models. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Deep learning » Generalization » Overfitting
