Graph Knowledge Structure for Attentional Knowledge Tracing With Self-Supervised Learning

As intelligent education advances and online learning becomes more prevalent, Knowledge Tracing (KT) has become increasingly important. KT assesses students’ learning progress by analysing their historical performance in related exercises. Despite significant advances in the field, there...

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Main Authors: Zhaohui Liu, Sainan Liu, Weifeng Gu
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Published: IEEE 2025-01-01
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description As intelligent education advances and online learning becomes more prevalent, Knowledge Tracing (KT) has become increasingly important. KT assesses students’ learning progress by analysing their historical performance in related exercises. Despite significant advances in the field, there are still shortcomings in two aspects: first, a lack of effective integration between exercises and knowledge points; second, an overemphasis on nodal information, neglecting deep semantic relationships. To address these, we propose a self-supervised learning approach that uses an enhanced heterogeneous graph attention network to represent and analyse complex relationships between exercises and knowledge points. We introduce an innovative surrogate view generation method to optimise the integration of local structural information and global semantics within the graph, addressing relational inductive bias. In addition, we incorporate the improved representation algorithm into the loss function to handle data sparsity, thereby improving prediction accuracy. Experiments on three real-world datasets show that our model outperforms baseline models.
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spelling doaj-art-c80a978f3b7048e1a00b27bb5bff04f92025-01-21T00:01:10ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-0113109331094310.1109/ACCESS.2024.352188310812715Graph Knowledge Structure for Attentional Knowledge Tracing With Self-Supervised LearningZhaohui Liu0Sainan Liu1https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4209-1476Weifeng Gu2School of Computer Science, School of Software, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, ChinaSchool of Computer Science, School of Software, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, ChinaSchool of Computer Science, School of Software, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, ChinaAs intelligent education advances and online learning becomes more prevalent, Knowledge Tracing (KT) has become increasingly important. KT assesses students’ learning progress by analysing their historical performance in related exercises. Despite significant advances in the field, there are still shortcomings in two aspects: first, a lack of effective integration between exercises and knowledge points; second, an overemphasis on nodal information, neglecting deep semantic relationships. To address these, we propose a self-supervised learning approach that uses an enhanced heterogeneous graph attention network to represent and analyse complex relationships between exercises and knowledge points. We introduce an innovative surrogate view generation method to optimise the integration of local structural information and global semantics within the graph, addressing relational inductive bias. In addition, we incorporate the improved representation algorithm into the loss function to handle data sparsity, thereby improving prediction accuracy. Experiments on three real-world datasets show that our model outperforms baseline models.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10812715/Intelligent systemsself-supervised learningattention mechanismsgraph convolutional networksknowledge tracing
spellingShingle Zhaohui Liu
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Weifeng Gu
Graph Knowledge Structure for Attentional Knowledge Tracing With Self-Supervised Learning
IEEE Access
Intelligent systems
self-supervised learning
attention mechanisms
graph convolutional networks
knowledge tracing
title Graph Knowledge Structure for Attentional Knowledge Tracing With Self-Supervised Learning
title_full Graph Knowledge Structure for Attentional Knowledge Tracing With Self-Supervised Learning
title_fullStr Graph Knowledge Structure for Attentional Knowledge Tracing With Self-Supervised Learning
title_full_unstemmed Graph Knowledge Structure for Attentional Knowledge Tracing With Self-Supervised Learning
title_short Graph Knowledge Structure for Attentional Knowledge Tracing With Self-Supervised Learning
title_sort graph knowledge structure for attentional knowledge tracing with self supervised learning
topic Intelligent systems
self-supervised learning
attention mechanisms
graph convolutional networks
knowledge tracing
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10812715/
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