Responsible-DKT outperforms a neural-symbolic baseline without knowledge injection and a fully data-driven PyTorch DKT in predictive accuracy across training ratios and sequence lengths¶

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Currency · newest study 2026 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2029: tool and model accuracy changes quickly

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q2 i? Responsible-DKT achieves over 0.80 AUC with only 10% of training data and reaches up to 0.90 AUC, improving performance by up to 13% over the baseline models. → Hooshyar 2026

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Hooshyar 2026¶

Hooshyar, D.; Šír, G.; Yang, Y.; Kärkkäinen, T.; Hämäläinen, R.; Krivich, E.; Cukurova, M.; Gašević, D.; Azevedo, R. (2026). Neural-Symbolic Knowledge Tracing: Injecting Educational Knowledge into Deep Learning for Responsible Learner Modelling. arXiv preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08263 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2604.08263

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The paper reports experiments on a real-world dataset of 6th-grade students' Maths interactions, comparing Responsible-DKT against BaseNS-DKT and Classic-DKT across training ratios and sequence lengths; the abstract reports "over 0.80 AUC with only 10% of training data" and up to 0.90 AUC, a 13% improvement over baselines. No per-condition test statistics are printed in the available text.

"The model achieves over 0.80 AUC with only 10% of training data and reaches up to 0.90 AUC, improving performance by up to 13% over the baseline models."

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