Removing grid-search initialization of IRT discrimination and difficulty parameters drops scoring performance from QWK 0.747 to 0.705¶
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q2 i? An ablation removing grid-search initialization of GPCM discrimination and difficulty priors reduces average QWK from 0.747 to 0.705. → Wei Xia 2026
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Wei Xia 2026¶
Wei Xia, Jin Wu, Haoran Shi, Xiangyu Wang, Chanjin Zheng. (2026). PsyScore: A Psychometrically-Aware Framework for Trait-Adaptive Essay Scoring and ZPD-Scaffolded Feedback. arXiv preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20287 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.20287
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Ablation experiment on ASAP++ comparing the full model with a variant lacking grid-search initialization of IRT (a) and (b) parameters; the article reports the drop "from QWK 0.747 to 0.705".
"Removing this initialization results in a performance drop from QWK 0.747 to 0.705. This observation highlights the importance of properly optimizing IRT priors to align neural representations with expected psychometric distributions."
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Removing grid-search initialization of IRT discrimination and difficulty parameters drops scoring performance from QWK 0.747 to 0.705 |
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Removing grid-search initialization of IRT discrimination and difficulty parameters drops scoring performance from QWK 0.747 to 0.705 |
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