A review of deep learning-based recommender system in e-learning environments

T Liu, Q Wu, L Chang, T Gu - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2022 - Springer
While the recent emergence of a large number of online course resources has made life
more convenient for many people, it has also caused information overload. According to a …

Understanding dropouts in MOOCs

W Feng, J Tang, TX Liu - Proceedings of the AAAI conference on artificial …, 2019 - aaai.org
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have developed rapidly in recent years, and have
attracted millions of online users. However, a central challenge is the extremely high dropout …

Hierarchical reinforcement learning for course recommendation in MOOCs

J Zhang, B Hao, B Chen, C Li, H Chen… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2019 - ojs.aaai.org
The proliferation of massive open online courses (MOOCs) demands an effective way of
personalized course recommendation. The recent attention-based recommendation models …

Designing reinforcement learning algorithms for digital interventions: pre-implementation guidelines

AL Trella, KW Zhang, I Nahum-Shani, V Shetty… - Algorithms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Online reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are increasingly used to personalize digital
interventions in the fields of mobile health and online education. Common challenges in …

Diversified interactive recommendation with implicit feedback

Y Liu, Y Xiao, Q Wu, C Miao, J Zhang, B Zhao… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ojs.aaai.org
Interactive recommender systems that enable the interactions between users and the
recommender system have attracted increasing research attention. Previous methods …

Intelligentpooling: Practical thompson sampling for mhealth

S Tomkins, P Liao, P Klasnja, S Murphy - Machine learning, 2021 - Springer
In mobile health (mHealth) smart devices deliver behavioral treatments repeatedly over time
to a user with the goal of helping the user adopt and maintain healthy behaviors …

CNN autoencoders and LSTM-based reduced order model for student dropout prediction

K Niu, G Lu, X Peng, Y Zhou, J Zeng… - Neural Computing and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract In recent years, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become the main
online learning method for students all over the world, but their development has been …

Dynamic ensemble of contextual bandits to satisfy users' changing interests

Q Wu, H Wang, Y Li, H Wang - The World Wide Web Conference, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems have to handle a highly non-stationary environment, due to users'
fast changing interests over time. Traditional solutions have to periodically rebuild their …

Counterfactual inference for sequential experiments

R Dwivedi, K Tian, S Tomkins, P Klasnja… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We consider after-study statistical inference for sequentially designed experiments wherein
multiple units are assigned treatments for multiple time points using treatment policies that …

Rethinking Discount Regularization: New Interpretations, Unintended Consequences, and Solutions for Regularization in Reinforcement Learning

S Rathnam, S Parbhoo, S Swaroop, W Pan… - Journal of Machine …, 2024 - jmlr.org
Discount regularization, using a shorter planning horizon when calculating the optimal
policy, is a popular choice to avoid overfitting when faced with sparse or noisy data. It is …