Relaxed Clustered Hawkes Process for Procrastination Modeling in MOOCs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00093v1
• Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:20:38 GMT
• Title: Relaxed Clustered Hawkes Process for Procrastination Modeling in MOOCs
• Authors: Mengfan Yao, Siqian Zhao, Shaghayegh Sahebi, Reza Feyzi Behnagh
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel personalized Hawkes process model (RCHawkes-Gamma) that discovers meaningful student behavior clusters. Our experiments on both synthetic and real-world education datasets show that RCHawkes-Gamma can effectively recover student clusters.
• Score: 1.6822770693792826
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Hawkes processes have been shown to be efficient in modeling bursty sequences in a variety of applications, such as finance and social network activity analysis. Traditionally, these models parameterize each process independently and assume that the history of each point process can be fully observed. Such models could however be inefficient or even prohibited in certain real-world applications, such as in the field of education, where such assumptions are violated. Motivated by the problem of detecting and predicting student procrastination in students Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) with missing and partially observed data, in this work, we propose a novel personalized Hawkes process model (RCHawkes-Gamma) that discovers meaningful student behavior clusters by jointly learning all partially observed processes simultaneously, without relying on auxiliary features. Our experiments on both synthetic and real-world education datasets show that RCHawkes-Gamma can effectively recover student clusters and their temporal procrastination dynamics, resulting in better predictive performance of future student activities. Our further analyses of the learned parameters and their association with student delays show that the discovered student clusters unveil meaningful representations of various procrastination behaviors in students.

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