Paper Info
Title
Jointly Modeling Individual Student Behaviors and Social Influence for Prediction Tasks
Abstract
Prediction tasks about students such as predicting students' academic performances have practical real-world significance at both the student level and the college level. With the rapid construction of smart campuses, colleges not only offer residence and academic programs but also record students' daily life. The digital footprints provide an opportunity to offer better solutions for prediction tasks. In this paper, we aim to propose a general deep neural network which can jointly model student heterogeneous daily behaviors generated from digital footprints and social influence to deal with prediction tasks. To this end, we design a variant of LSTM and a novel attention mechanism to model the daily behavior sequence. The proposed LSTM is able to consider context information (e.g., weather conditions) while modeling the daily behavior sequence. The proposed attention mechanism can dynamically learn the different importance degrees of different days for every student. Based on behavior information, we propose an unsupervised way to construct a social network to model social influence. Moreover, we design a residual network based decoder to model the complex interactions between the features and get the predicted values such as future academic performances. Qualitative and quantitative experiments on two real-world datasets collected from a college have demonstrated the effectiveness of our model.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3340531.3411961
CIKM '20: The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Virtual Event Ireland October, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-6859-9
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Haobing Liu122.76
Yanmin Zhu21767142.50
Tianzi Zang332.09
Jiadi Yu437157.86
Haibin Cai501.35