There is no universal optimal injection position for the collaborative prior; effectiveness is an architecture-sensitive design choice¶

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q2 i? All three injection strategies (Input, Output, Dual) consistently outperform the baseline, but the optimal injection position differs by architecture and sequence length. → Yuhao Jia 2026

Evidence¶

Yuhao Jia 2026¶

Yuhao Jia, Duantengchuan Li, Jinsong Chen, Zhongjie Mao, Mingwen Tong, Yue Li, Xiaoguang Wang. (2026). MBP-KT: Learning Global Collaborative Information from Meta-Behavioral Pattern for Enhanced Knowledge Tracing. Preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08697 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.08697

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Supplementary experiment (Appendix B.2, Figure 6) comparing Input, Output and Dual fusion against baseline across four architectures and sequence-length bins. The article reports Input fusion helps mainly in short-sequence scenarios for AKT and SAINT, while ReKT shows consistent superiority with Dual or Output fusion.

"the empirical results indicate that there is no universal optimal injection position; rather, the effectiveness functions as an architecture-sensitive design choice"

Discussion¶

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