The single-head base model (Model 1) outperformed the more complex Model 2, suggesting overfitting in the larger architecture¶

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q3 i? Model 1 achieved higher best validation, private evaluation, and second-best public AUC than the more complex Model 2, which the authors suggest may indicate overfitting. → Lu 2024

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Lu 2024¶

Lu, Y., Tong, L., & Cheng, Y. (2024). Advanced Knowledge Tracing: Incorporating Process Data and Curricula Information via an Attention-Based Framework for Accuracy and Interpretability. Journal of Educational Data Mining, 16(2). https://osf.io/mdpzc/ doi:10.31219/osf.io/3k7z2

q3 · i? · the article prints no effect size for this finding · design · r2

Results section comparison of four architectures evaluated with 10-fold cross-validation and public/private evaluation AUCs (Table 4). Model 1's private AUC was 0.79083 versus Model 2's 0.78617; the authors state "Model 1 outperforms Model 2 despite the latter’s greater complexity".

"Model 1 outperforms Model 2 despite the latter’s greater complexity, including a broader layer width in its MLP for problem embeddings and additional heads in the Transformer Encoder."

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