AdvKT: An Adversarial Multi-Step Training Framework for Knowledge Tracing
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| author | Fu, Lingyue Long, Ting Lin, Jianghao Xia, Wei Dai, Xinyi Tang, Ruiming Wang, Yasheng Zhang, Weinan Yu, Yong |
| author_facet | Fu, Lingyue Long, Ting Lin, Jianghao Xia, Wei Dai, Xinyi Tang, Ruiming Wang, Yasheng Zhang, Weinan Yu, Yong |
| contents | Knowledge Tracing (KT) monitors students' knowledge states and simulates their responses to question sequences. Existing KT models typically follow a single-step training paradigm, which leads to discrepancies with the multi-step inference process required in real-world simulations, resulting in significant error accumulation. This accumulation of error, coupled with the issue of data sparsity, can substantially degrade the performance of recommendation models in the intelligent tutoring systems. To address these challenges, we propose a novel Adversarial Multi-Step Training Framework for Knowledge Tracing (AdvKT), which, for the first time, focuses on the multi-step KT task. More specifically, AdvKT leverages adversarial learning paradigm involving a generator and a discriminator. The generator mimics high-reward responses, effectively reducing error accumulation across multiple steps, while the discriminator provides feedback to generate synthetic data. Additionally, we design specialized data augmentation techniques to enrich the training data with realistic variations, ensuring that the model generalizes well even in scenarios with sparse data. Experiments conducted on four real-world datasets demonstrate the superiority of AdvKT over existing KT models, showcasing its ability to address both error accumulation and data sparsity issues effectively. |
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| spellingShingle | AdvKT: An Adversarial Multi-Step Training Framework for Knowledge Tracing Fu, Lingyue Long, Ting Lin, Jianghao Xia, Wei Dai, Xinyi Tang, Ruiming Wang, Yasheng Zhang, Weinan Yu, Yong Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society Knowledge Tracing (KT) monitors students' knowledge states and simulates their responses to question sequences. Existing KT models typically follow a single-step training paradigm, which leads to discrepancies with the multi-step inference process required in real-world simulations, resulting in significant error accumulation. This accumulation of error, coupled with the issue of data sparsity, can substantially degrade the performance of recommendation models in the intelligent tutoring systems. To address these challenges, we propose a novel Adversarial Multi-Step Training Framework for Knowledge Tracing (AdvKT), which, for the first time, focuses on the multi-step KT task. More specifically, AdvKT leverages adversarial learning paradigm involving a generator and a discriminator. The generator mimics high-reward responses, effectively reducing error accumulation across multiple steps, while the discriminator provides feedback to generate synthetic data. Additionally, we design specialized data augmentation techniques to enrich the training data with realistic variations, ensuring that the model generalizes well even in scenarios with sparse data. Experiments conducted on four real-world datasets demonstrate the superiority of AdvKT over existing KT models, showcasing its ability to address both error accumulation and data sparsity issues effectively. |
| title | AdvKT: An Adversarial Multi-Step Training Framework for Knowledge Tracing |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04706 |