Densely sampled visual frames and sensor representations offered no reliable predictive advantage over the 1 FPS setting in the higher-frequency experiment¶

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q2 i? An experiment retaining all available visual frames and sensor representations (approximately 75 timesteps per 10-second sequence) yielded only minor improvements in predictive metrics, with no improvement in some seeds. → Christoforos Fragkiadakis 2026

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Christoforos Fragkiadakis 2026¶

Christoforos Fragkiadakis, Seyed Sahand Mohammadi Ziabari, and Ali Mohammed Mansoor Alsahag. (2026). Fairness-Aware Multimodal Transformer Modeling for Real-Time Student Attention Estimation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02232 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2609.02232

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Additional experiment motivated by concern that aggregating high-frequency wearable signals to one-second intervals might remove informative short-term temporal information; neighboring sensor vectors were highly redundant with considerable temporal overlap.

"This higher-frequency experiment yielded only minor improvements in the predictive evaluation metrics, while in some seeds there was no improvement (Appendix C)."

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