EVOL variants remain the strongest methods under stochastic response models, weakening the hypothesis that evolutionary search exploits deterministic threshold discontinuities¶

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q2 i? Deterministic-trained checkpoints re-evaluated under Bernoulli and slip/guess response models keep all three EVOL variants strongest, though all methods become harder to optimize under stochastic responses. → Geonwoo Bang 2026

Evidence¶

Geonwoo Bang 2026¶

Geonwoo Bang, Dongho Kim, and Moohong Min. (2026). EVOL: Simulator-Guided Evolutionary Expert Synthesis for Deployment-Free Learning Path Recommendation. arXiv:2610.03273. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03273 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2610.03273

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Response-model robustness test (Table 7, ASSIST15 L=10, 3 policy seeds × 200 test learners × 20 stochastic rollouts, no re-training) under Bernoulli and slip/guess (s=g=0.10, 0.20) response models applied uniformly to all methods.

"First, all three EVOL variants remain the strongest methods under every stochastic response model, which weakens the hypothesis that evolutionary search merely exploits deterministic threshold discontinuities."

Discussion¶

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