ProPRL is sensitive to learning rate but comparatively insensitive to its structural hyperparameters, with propagation depth around 5 capturing most multi-hop benefit¶

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q2 i? Performance improves as propagation depth k increases from zero, with gains becoming limited once k reaches approximately 5; the learning rate has a substantially stronger effect, with best performance around 10^-4. → 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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Hyperparameter study (Figure 4) over propagation coefficient α, depth k, anti-symmetry weight λ, and learning rate. The effect of α is dataset-dependent (MOOC favors smaller α, UCD a moderate value); the article states ProPRL "requiresanappropriatelysmalllearning rate for reliable optimization".

"The improvements become limited oncekreaches approximately 5, sug-gesting that a moderate propagation depth captures most of the useful multi-hop behavioral dependencies"

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