Data Augmentation for Sparse Multidimensional Learning Performance Data Using Generative AI

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Hauptverfasser: Zhang, Liang, Lin, Jionghao, Sabatini, John, Borchers, Conrad, Weitekamp, Daniel, Cao, Meng, Hollander, John, Hu, Xiangen, Graesser, Arthur C.
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author Zhang, Liang
Lin, Jionghao
Sabatini, John
Borchers, Conrad
Weitekamp, Daniel
Cao, Meng
Hollander, John
Hu, Xiangen
Graesser, Arthur C.
author_facet Zhang, Liang
Lin, Jionghao
Sabatini, John
Borchers, Conrad
Weitekamp, Daniel
Cao, Meng
Hollander, John
Hu, Xiangen
Graesser, Arthur C.
contents Learning performance data describe correct and incorrect answers or problem-solving attempts in adaptive learning, such as in intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs). Learning performance data tend to be highly sparse (80\%\(\sim\)90\% missing observations) in most real-world applications due to adaptive item selection. This data sparsity presents challenges to using learner models to effectively predict future performance explore new hypotheses about learning. This article proposes a systematic framework for augmenting learner data to address data sparsity in learning performance data. First, learning performance is represented as a three-dimensional tensor of learners' questions, answers, and attempts, capturing longitudinal knowledge states during learning. Second, a tensor factorization method is used to impute missing values in sparse tensors of collected learner data, thereby grounding the imputation on knowledge tracing tasks that predict missing performance values based on real observations. Third, a module for generating patterns of learning is used. This study contrasts two forms of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), including Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Generate Pre-Trained Transformers (GPT) to generate data associated with different clusters of learner data. We tested this approach on an adult literacy dataset from AutoTutor lessons developed for Adult Reading Comprehension (ARC). We found that: (1) tensor factorization improved the performance in tracing and predicting knowledge mastery compared with other knowledge tracing techniques without data augmentation, showing higher relative fidelity for this imputation method, and (2) the GAN-based simulation showed greater overall stability and less statistical bias based on a divergence evaluation with varying simulation sample sizes compared to GPT.
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spellingShingle Data Augmentation for Sparse Multidimensional Learning Performance Data Using Generative AI
Zhang, Liang
Lin, Jionghao
Sabatini, John
Borchers, Conrad
Weitekamp, Daniel
Cao, Meng
Hollander, John
Hu, Xiangen
Graesser, Arthur C.
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Learning performance data describe correct and incorrect answers or problem-solving attempts in adaptive learning, such as in intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs). Learning performance data tend to be highly sparse (80\%\(\sim\)90\% missing observations) in most real-world applications due to adaptive item selection. This data sparsity presents challenges to using learner models to effectively predict future performance explore new hypotheses about learning. This article proposes a systematic framework for augmenting learner data to address data sparsity in learning performance data. First, learning performance is represented as a three-dimensional tensor of learners' questions, answers, and attempts, capturing longitudinal knowledge states during learning. Second, a tensor factorization method is used to impute missing values in sparse tensors of collected learner data, thereby grounding the imputation on knowledge tracing tasks that predict missing performance values based on real observations. Third, a module for generating patterns of learning is used. This study contrasts two forms of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), including Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Generate Pre-Trained Transformers (GPT) to generate data associated with different clusters of learner data. We tested this approach on an adult literacy dataset from AutoTutor lessons developed for Adult Reading Comprehension (ARC). We found that: (1) tensor factorization improved the performance in tracing and predicting knowledge mastery compared with other knowledge tracing techniques without data augmentation, showing higher relative fidelity for this imputation method, and (2) the GAN-based simulation showed greater overall stability and less statistical bias based on a divergence evaluation with varying simulation sample sizes compared to GPT.
title Data Augmentation for Sparse Multidimensional Learning Performance Data Using Generative AI
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15631