Providing baselines with oracle knowledge-concept selection substantially improves their performance, identifying concept selection as a key bottleneck, though baselines with oracle KCs still trail KT4EQG¶

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q2 i? Adding oracle KC selection (+ORACLE) substantially improves baseline question generators in most cases, but even with oracle KCs they perform worse than KT4EQG, indicating the alignment-trained generator produces higher-quality questions for a target KC. → Xinyi Gao 2026

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Xinyi Gao 2026¶

Xinyi Gao, Qiucheng Wu, Lu Ding, Q. Vera Liao, Kaizhi Qian, Ying Xu, Shiyu Chang, Yang Zhang. (2026). KT4EQG: Personalized Exercise Question Generation via Knowledge Tracing. Preprint. Under review. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23933 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.23933

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Results analysis of Table 1 variants in which each baseline was run both with its own KC choice and with the KT2-selected KC supplied as a prefix; the authors report that "concept selection is a key bottleneck" and that baselines remain worse than KT4EQG even with oracle KCs.

"providing baselines with oracle KC selection (+ORACLE) substantially improves their performance in most cases, confirming that concept selection is a key bottleneck for existing methods. However, even with oracle KCs, baselines still perform worse than KT4EQG"

Discussion¶

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