Enhancing Learning Path Recommendation via Multi-task Learning

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Main Authors: Nasrin, Afsana, Qian, Lijun, Obiomon, Pamela, Dong, Xishuang
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Published: 2025
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author Nasrin, Afsana
Qian, Lijun
Obiomon, Pamela
Dong, Xishuang
author_facet Nasrin, Afsana
Qian, Lijun
Obiomon, Pamela
Dong, Xishuang
contents Personalized learning is a student-centered educational approach that adapts content, pace, and assessment to meet each learner's unique needs. As the key technique to implement the personalized learning, learning path recommendation sequentially recommends personalized learning items such as lectures and exercises. Advances in deep learning, particularly deep reinforcement learning, have made modeling such recommendations more practical and effective. This paper proposes a multi-task LSTM model that enhances learning path recommendation by leveraging shared information across tasks. The approach reframes learning path recommendation as a sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) prediction problem, generating personalized learning paths from a learner's historical interactions. The model uses a shared LSTM layer to capture common features for both learning path recommendation and deep knowledge tracing, along with task-specific LSTM layers for each objective. To avoid redundant recommendations, a non-repeat loss penalizes repeated items within the recommended learning path. Experiments on the ASSIST09 dataset show that the proposed model significantly outperforms baseline methods for the learning path recommendation.
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spellingShingle Enhancing Learning Path Recommendation via Multi-task Learning
Nasrin, Afsana
Qian, Lijun
Obiomon, Pamela
Dong, Xishuang
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Computers and Society
Machine Learning
Personalized learning is a student-centered educational approach that adapts content, pace, and assessment to meet each learner's unique needs. As the key technique to implement the personalized learning, learning path recommendation sequentially recommends personalized learning items such as lectures and exercises. Advances in deep learning, particularly deep reinforcement learning, have made modeling such recommendations more practical and effective. This paper proposes a multi-task LSTM model that enhances learning path recommendation by leveraging shared information across tasks. The approach reframes learning path recommendation as a sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) prediction problem, generating personalized learning paths from a learner's historical interactions. The model uses a shared LSTM layer to capture common features for both learning path recommendation and deep knowledge tracing, along with task-specific LSTM layers for each objective. To avoid redundant recommendations, a non-repeat loss penalizes repeated items within the recommended learning path. Experiments on the ASSIST09 dataset show that the proposed model significantly outperforms baseline methods for the learning path recommendation.
title Enhancing Learning Path Recommendation via Multi-task Learning
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Computers and Society
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05295