Attention-LGBM-BiLSTM: An Attention-Based Ensemble Method for Knowledge Tracing

Si Shi, Wuman Luo, Rita Tse, Giovanni Pau

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Abstract

Knowledge tracing plays a vital role in measuring students' learning behaviors. In this paper, we propose a novel ensemble model: Attention-LGBM-BiLSTM for knowledge tracing. We utilize the attention mechanism combined with LGBM (Light Gradient Boosting Machine) to obtain a feature of the most importance. Combined with the first-round outputs of LGBM, it is imported into BiLSTM (Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory), thus obtaining the final classification results. We implement and evaluate the model based on the largest open-source dataset, EdNet, in education area. The results show that the accuracy, AUC, and Fl-score of the model are higher than its baselines. An ablation test is also conducted to prove its effectiveness.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering, TALE 2022
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages306-309
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781665491174
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event11th IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering, TALE 2022 - Virtual, Online, Hong Kong
Duration: 4 Dec 20227 Dec 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering, TALE 2022

Conference

Conference11th IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering, TALE 2022
Country/TerritoryHong Kong
CityVirtual, Online
Period4/12/227/12/22

Keywords

  • ensemble method
  • knowledge tracing
  • machine learning

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