2026

Interpretable Difficulty-Aware Knowledge Tracing in Tutor-Student Dialogues
Interpretable Difficulty-Aware Knowledge Tracing in Tutor-Student Dialogues

Shuyan Huang, Alexander Scarlatos, Jaewook Lee, Andrew Lan

21st BEA workshop at ACL 2026

An interpretable difficulty-aware conversational KT framework built upon LLMs, which explicitly models students' abilities and the difficulties of tutor-posed tasks turn by turn.

Interpretable Difficulty-Aware Knowledge Tracing in Tutor-Student Dialogues

Shuyan Huang, Alexander Scarlatos, Jaewook Lee, Andrew Lan

21st BEA workshop at ACL 2026

An interpretable difficulty-aware conversational KT framework built upon LLMs, which explicitly models students' abilities and the difficulties of tutor-posed tasks turn by turn.

COMA: A Collaborative Multi-Role Agent Framework for Automated Lesson Plan Generation
COMA: A Collaborative Multi-Role Agent Framework for Automated Lesson Plan Generation

Xiaoli Zeng, Ying Zheng, Shuyan Huang, Zitao Liu, Mi Tian, Mingliang Hou, Jiaqi Zheng, Wenzhou Dou

The Web Conference (WWW) 2026

A multi-agent framework that leverages collaborative roles to automate the generation of high-quality lesson plans.

COMA: A Collaborative Multi-Role Agent Framework for Automated Lesson Plan Generation

Xiaoli Zeng, Ying Zheng, Shuyan Huang, Zitao Liu, Mi Tian, Mingliang Hou, Jiaqi Zheng, Wenzhou Dou

The Web Conference (WWW) 2026

A multi-agent framework that leverages collaborative roles to automate the generation of high-quality lesson plans.

2025

A Compress-Expand Framework for Automatic Lesson Plan Generation
A Compress-Expand Framework for Automatic Lesson Plan Generation

Shuyan Huang, Ying Zheng, Xiaoli Zeng, Zitao Liu

AAAI 2026

A LLM based framework for automatic lesson plan generation that balances content depth and breadth through compression and expansion.

A Compress-Expand Framework for Automatic Lesson Plan Generation

Shuyan Huang, Ying Zheng, Xiaoli Zeng, Zitao Liu

AAAI 2026

A LLM based framework for automatic lesson plan generation that balances content depth and breadth through compression and expansion.

Knowledge-enhanced large language models for automatic lesson plan generation
Knowledge-enhanced large language models for automatic lesson plan generation

Ying Zheng*, Shuyan Huang*, Xiaoli Zeng, Yaying Huang, Zitao Liu, Weiqi Luo (* equal contribution)

Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 2025

Enhancing large language models with educational domain knowledge to improve the accuracy of generated lesson plans.

Knowledge-enhanced large language models for automatic lesson plan generation

Ying Zheng*, Shuyan Huang*, Xiaoli Zeng, Yaying Huang, Zitao Liu, Weiqi Luo (* equal contribution)

Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 2025

Enhancing large language models with educational domain knowledge to improve the accuracy of generated lesson plans.

Dual-attentional time-aware fusion networks for knowledge tracing
Dual-attentional time-aware fusion networks for knowledge tracing

Shuyan Huang, Zitao Liu, Qiongqiong Liu, Jiahao Chen, Yaying Huang

Information Fusion 2025

A dual-attentional time-aware fusion network for knowledge tracing that captures both temporal dynamics and question-level dependencies.

Dual-attentional time-aware fusion networks for knowledge tracing

Shuyan Huang, Zitao Liu, Qiongqiong Liu, Jiahao Chen, Yaying Huang

Information Fusion 2025

A dual-attentional time-aware fusion network for knowledge tracing that captures both temporal dynamics and question-level dependencies.

Improving Knowledge Tracing through Multi-Source Scaling with Decoder-Only Transformers
Improving Knowledge Tracing through Multi-Source Scaling with Decoder-Only Transformers

Guo Teng, Bojun Zhan, Shuyan Huang, Jiahao Chen, Xiangyu Zhao, Mingliang Hou, Zitao Liu

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 2025

Investigating the impact of multi-source data scaling on knowledge tracing performance using decoder-only Transformer architectures.

Improving Knowledge Tracing through Multi-Source Scaling with Decoder-Only Transformers

Guo Teng, Bojun Zhan, Shuyan Huang, Jiahao Chen, Xiangyu Zhao, Mingliang Hou, Zitao Liu

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 2025

Investigating the impact of multi-source data scaling on knowledge tracing performance using decoder-only Transformer architectures.

A Prompt-Driven Framework for Multi-Domain Knowledge Tracing
A Prompt-Driven Framework for Multi-Domain Knowledge Tracing

Zitao Liu, Shuyan Huang, Guo Teng, Mingliang Hou, Qianru Liang

Machine Learning 2025

A prompt-driven framework for multi-domain knowledge tracing that leverages natural language prompts to guide model behavior and improve performance.

A Prompt-Driven Framework for Multi-Domain Knowledge Tracing

Zitao Liu, Shuyan Huang, Guo Teng, Mingliang Hou, Qianru Liang

Machine Learning 2025

A prompt-driven framework for multi-domain knowledge tracing that leverages natural language prompts to guide model behavior and improve performance.

2024

Improving Low-Resource Knowledge Tracing Tasks by Supervised Pre-training and Importance Mechanism Fine-tuning
Improving Low-Resource Knowledge Tracing Tasks by Supervised Pre-training and Importance Mechanism Fine-tuning

Hengyuan Zhang, Zitao Liu, Shuyan Huang, Chenming Shang, Bojun Zhan, Yong Jiang

Arxiv Preprint 2024

Improving Low-Resource Knowledge Tracing Tasks by Supervised Pre-training and Importance Mechanism Fine-tuning

Improving Low-Resource Knowledge Tracing Tasks by Supervised Pre-training and Importance Mechanism Fine-tuning

Hengyuan Zhang, Zitao Liu, Shuyan Huang, Chenming Shang, Bojun Zhan, Yong Jiang

Arxiv Preprint 2024

Improving Low-Resource Knowledge Tracing Tasks by Supervised Pre-training and Importance Mechanism Fine-tuning

2023

Xes3g5m: A knowledge tracing benchmark dataset with auxiliary information
Xes3g5m: A knowledge tracing benchmark dataset with auxiliary information

Zitao Liu, Qiongqiong Liu, Teng Guo, Jiahao Chen, Shuyan Huang, Xiangyu Zhao, Jiliang Tang, Weiqi Luo, Jian Weng

NeurIPS 2024

A comprehensive benchmark dataset for knowledge tracing featuring rich auxiliary information for robust model evaluation.

Xes3g5m: A knowledge tracing benchmark dataset with auxiliary information

Zitao Liu, Qiongqiong Liu, Teng Guo, Jiahao Chen, Shuyan Huang, Xiangyu Zhao, Jiliang Tang, Weiqi Luo, Jian Weng

NeurIPS 2024

A comprehensive benchmark dataset for knowledge tracing featuring rich auxiliary information for robust model evaluation.

Assessing Student Performance with Multi-granularity Attention from Online Classroom Dialogue
Assessing Student Performance with Multi-granularity Attention from Online Classroom Dialogue

Jiahao Chen, Zitao Liu, Shuyan Huang, Yaying Huang, Xiangyu Zhao, Boyu Gao, Weiqi Luo

CIKM 2023

Assessing Student Performance with Multi-granularity Attention from Online Classroom Dialogue

Assessing Student Performance with Multi-granularity Attention from Online Classroom Dialogue

Jiahao Chen, Zitao Liu, Shuyan Huang, Yaying Huang, Xiangyu Zhao, Boyu Gao, Weiqi Luo

CIKM 2023

Assessing Student Performance with Multi-granularity Attention from Online Classroom Dialogue

Towards robust knowledge tracing models via k-sparse attention
Towards robust knowledge tracing models via k-sparse attention

Shuyan Huang, Zitao Liu, Xiangyu Zhao, Weiqi Luo, Jian Weng

SIGIR 2023

Enhancing the robustness of deep knowledge tracing models via a k-sparse attention mechanism for noise filtering.

Towards robust knowledge tracing models via k-sparse attention

Shuyan Huang, Zitao Liu, Xiangyu Zhao, Weiqi Luo, Jian Weng

SIGIR 2023

Enhancing the robustness of deep knowledge tracing models via a k-sparse attention mechanism for noise filtering.

Enhancing deep knowledge tracing with auxiliary tasks
Enhancing deep knowledge tracing with auxiliary tasks

Zitao Liu, Qiongqiong Liu, Jiahao Chen, Shuyan Huang, Boyu Gao, Weiqi Luo, Jian Weng

The Web Conference (WWW) 2023

Boosting knowledge tracing performance through the integration of multi-task learning with auxiliary educational objectives.

Enhancing deep knowledge tracing with auxiliary tasks

Zitao Liu, Qiongqiong Liu, Jiahao Chen, Shuyan Huang, Boyu Gao, Weiqi Luo, Jian Weng

The Web Conference (WWW) 2023

Boosting knowledge tracing performance through the integration of multi-task learning with auxiliary educational objectives.

simpleKT: a simple but tough-to-beat baseline for knowledge tracing
simpleKT: a simple but tough-to-beat baseline for knowledge tracing

Zitao Liu, Qiongqiong Liu, Jiahao Chen, Shuyan Huang#, Weiqi Luo (# corresponding author)

ICLR 2023

A surprisingly effective and simple baseline for knowledge tracing that consistently outperforms complex deep learning models.

simpleKT: a simple but tough-to-beat baseline for knowledge tracing

Zitao Liu, Qiongqiong Liu, Jiahao Chen, Shuyan Huang#, Weiqi Luo (# corresponding author)

ICLR 2023

A surprisingly effective and simple baseline for knowledge tracing that consistently outperforms complex deep learning models.

Improving interpretability of deep sequential knowledge tracing models with question-centric cognitive representations
Improving interpretability of deep sequential knowledge tracing models with question-centric cognitive representations

Jiahao Chen, Zitao Liu, Shuyan Huang, Qiongqiong Liu, Weiqi Luo

AAAI 2023

Improving the interpretability of deep knowledge tracing by learning question-centric cognitive representations.

Improving interpretability of deep sequential knowledge tracing models with question-centric cognitive representations

Jiahao Chen, Zitao Liu, Shuyan Huang, Qiongqiong Liu, Weiqi Luo

AAAI 2023

Improving the interpretability of deep knowledge tracing by learning question-centric cognitive representations.

2022

pyKT: a python library to benchmark deep learning based knowledge tracing models
pyKT: a python library to benchmark deep learning based knowledge tracing models

Zitao Liu, Qiongqiong Liu, Jiahao Chen, Shuyan Huang#, Jiliang Tang, Weiqi Luo (# corresponding author)

NeurIPS 2022

A comprehensive Python library designed to provide a standardized benchmark for deep learning-based knowledge tracing.

pyKT: a python library to benchmark deep learning based knowledge tracing models

Zitao Liu, Qiongqiong Liu, Jiahao Chen, Shuyan Huang#, Jiliang Tang, Weiqi Luo (# corresponding author)

NeurIPS 2022

A comprehensive Python library designed to provide a standardized benchmark for deep learning-based knowledge tracing.

DialogID: A Dialogic Instruction Dataset for Improving Teaching Effectiveness in Online Environments
DialogID: A Dialogic Instruction Dataset for Improving Teaching Effectiveness in Online Environments

Zitao Liu, Qiongqiong Liu, Jiahao Chen, Shuyan Huang, Jiliang Tang, Weiqi Luo

CIKM 2022

A dialogic instruction dataset for improving teaching effectiveness in online environments.

DialogID: A Dialogic Instruction Dataset for Improving Teaching Effectiveness in Online Environments

Zitao Liu, Qiongqiong Liu, Jiahao Chen, Shuyan Huang, Jiliang Tang, Weiqi Luo

CIKM 2022

A dialogic instruction dataset for improving teaching effectiveness in online environments.

2021

A design of a simple yet effective exercise recommendation system in K-12 online learning
A design of a simple yet effective exercise recommendation system in K-12 online learning

Shuyan Huang, Qiongqiong Liu, Jiahao Chen, Xiangen Hu, Zitao Liu, Weiqi Luo

AIED 2022

In this paper, we design a simple yet effective exercise recommendation system for K-12 online learning, addressing the challenges of balancing evaluation cost and prediction accuracy.

A design of a simple yet effective exercise recommendation system in K-12 online learning

Shuyan Huang, Qiongqiong Liu, Jiahao Chen, Xiangen Hu, Zitao Liu, Weiqi Luo

AIED 2022

In this paper, we design a simple yet effective exercise recommendation system for K-12 online learning, addressing the challenges of balancing evaluation cost and prediction accuracy.