Sequencing rather than concept selection explains most of the EVOL–PPO-vanilla EP gap on ASSIST15 L=10¶
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q2 i? After uniformly shuffling each recommended path, EVOL-BC and PPO-vanilla obtain nearly indistinguishable EP, while the original ordered paths retain a clear advantage for EVOL, indicating transfer of an order-sensitive policy. → Geonwoo Bang 2026
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Geonwoo Bang 2026¶
Geonwoo Bang, Dongho Kim, and Moohong Min. (2026). EVOL: Simulator-Guided Evolutionary Expert Synthesis for Deployment-Free Learning Path Recommendation. arXiv:2610.03273. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03273 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2610.03273
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Pedagogical decomposition (Table 5, ASSIST15 L=10, 3 seeds, 200 test learners) measuring target coverage and EP drop after shuffling (SeqDrop). EVOL-BC: EP +0.627, SeqDrop +0.297; PPO-vanilla: EP +0.561, SeqDrop +0.227.
"After uniformly shuffling each recommended path, EVOL-BC and PPO-vanilla obtain nearly indistinguishable EP. This suggests that the two methods select concept sets of comparable quality, but differ in how those concepts are ordered."
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Sequencing rather than concept selection explains most of the EVOL–PPO-vanilla EP gap on ASSIST15 L=10 |
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Sequencing rather than concept selection explains most of the EVOL–PPO-vanilla EP gap on ASSIST15 L=10 |
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