Intelligent educational data analysis with gaussian processes

Jiachun Wang, Jing Zhao, Shiliang Sun, Dongyu Shi

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Abstract

As machine learning evolves, it is significant to apply machine learning techniques to the intelligent analysis on educational data and the establishment of more intelligent academic early warning system. In this paper, we use Gaussian process (GP)-based models to discover valuable inherent information in the educational data and make intelligent predictions. Specifically, the mixtures of GP regression model is adopted to select personalized key courses and the GP regression model is applied to predict the course scores. We conduct experiments on real-world data which are collected from two grades in a certain university. The experimental results show that our approaches can make reasonable analysis on educational data and provide prediction information about the unknown scores, thus helping to make more precise academic early warning.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 25th International Conference, ICONIP 2018, Proceedings
EditorsLong Cheng, Andrew Chi Sing Leung, Seiichi Ozawa
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages353-362
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783030042233
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event25th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2018 - Siem Reap, Cambodia
Duration: 13 Dec 201816 Dec 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11306 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference25th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2018
Country/TerritoryCambodia
CitySiem Reap
Period13/12/1816/12/18

Keywords

  • Academic early warning
  • Course score prediction
  • Gaussian process regression
  • Key course selection
  • Mixtures of Gaussian processes

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