Removing any ProPRL component reduces F1 on all three datasets, with multi-hop propagation having the largest overall impact¶

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q2 i? Ablating multi-hop propagation, the pair-conditioned gate, or the irreversibility constraint each consistently lowers F1; removing multi-hop propagation drops UCD F1 from 0.8788 to 0.7831. → Xinghe Cheng 2026

Evidence¶

Xinghe Cheng 2026¶

Xinghe Cheng, Jiapu Wang, Chaobo He, Ruihai Dong, Quanlong Guan. (2026). ProPRL: Property-Aware Prerequisite Relation Learning in Educational Knowledge Graphs. arXiv preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03006 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.03006

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Ablation study (Table 2, F1-score) on UCD, LectureBank, and MOOC. Multi-hop propagation removal causes "the most pronounced degradation on UCD, decreasing the F1-score from 0.8788 to 0.7831"; gate removal hurts MOOC most, anti-symmetry removal hurts LectureBank most.

"Removing any component consistently reduces the F1-score across all three datasets, confirming that each component contributes positivelytothecompletemodel."

Discussion¶

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