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Sensitivity Analysis and Vector Space Dimensionality (Knowledge Query Network for Knowledge Tracing)

In order to measure the impact of the embedding dimension on the models performance different values were tried, d = doptd_{opt}, $0.5d_{opt},2, 2d_{opt}$. For each pair from these three pairwise skill distance was calculated as:

ξd1,d2=i>jpdistd1(si,sj)pdistd2(si,sj)(N2)\xi_{d_1, d_2} = \frac {\sum_{i \gt j}|pdist_{d1} (s_i, s_j) - pdist_{d_2}(s_i, s_j)|} {\begin{pmatrix} N\\ 2 \end {pmatrix}} d1d2d_1 \neq d_2

pdistd(si,sj)pdist_d(s_i, s_j) refers to the pairwise distance and N is number of skills. Then the ξ\xi is compared to average pairwie distance μ\mu:

μd=i>jpdistd(si,sj)(N2)\mu_d = \frac {\sum_{i \gt j}pdist_{d} (s_i, s_j) } {\begin{pmatrix} N\\ 2 \end {pmatrix}} According to this experiment, KQN learned the skill relationship in a better manner when d was higher. Additionally, the authors used Mantel tests to measure the similarity between 2 distance matrices. It showed that when predicting the probability of the correctness as well as for learning relation between skill vectors KQN model is stable for different d values.

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Updated 2020-11-20

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