Increasing the number of courses per semester does not necessarily make FIC/DK-P easier to solve well¶

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q2 i? While larger S improves initial-population fitness, this intuition does not hold for final populations; greater S in a highly diversified catalog can produce worse solutions than more constrained course loads. → Lebis 2024

Evidence¶

Lebis 2024¶

Lebis, A., Humeau, J., Fleury, A., Lucas, F., & Vermeulen, M. (2024). Fully Individualized Curriculum with Decaying Knowledge, a New Hard Problem: Investigation and Recommendations. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-023-00376-9

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Analysis across configurations varying S (courses per semester) shown in Fig. 7. The intuition that more courses per semester reinforces qualification holds for initial populations but "this intuition does not stand while observing the final populations," with greater S sometimes yielding worse solutions.

"the overall trend of the fitness decreases as S increases. Y et, this intuition does not stand while observing the final populations."

Discussion¶

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