Removing the cognitive load module causes the largest ablation performance drop, while state fusion has a smaller effect¶

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q3 i? In ablations, removing cognitive load features (w/o CL) hurts most, removing the transfer GAT layers (w/o TG) also drops performance, and removing state fusion (w/o SF) has the smallest effect. → Haotian Zhang 2026

Evidence¶

Haotian Zhang 2026¶

Haotian Zhang, Shucun Wang, Jinze Wu, Liang Ding, Shuochen Liu, Zhenya Huang, Jing Sha, Shijin Wang, and Qi Liu. (2026). Incorporating Cognitive Load and Knowledge Transfer for Multi-Domain Knowledge Tracing. arXiv:2608.24005. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24005 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.24005

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Ablation study on four datasets (Table 3) comparing full LT-MKT with w/o CL, w/o TG and w/o SF variants; the article reports "the cognitive load effect significantly impacts model performance" and that the complete model achieved the best overall performance.

"Secondly, the cognitive load effect significantly impacts model performance, emphasizing the importance of cross-domain features in multi-domain learning. Thirdly, knowledge transfer mainly affects cross-domain knowledge evolution, and its removal causes a performance drop, while state fusion has a smaller effect."

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