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An increasing number of applications require to recognize the class of an incoming time series as quickly as possible without unduly compromising the accuracy of the prediction. In this paper, we put forward a new optimization criterion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Youssef Achenchabe , Alexis Bondu , Antoine Cornuéjols , Asma Dachraoui

We study the problem of predicting student knowledge acquisition in online courses from clickstream behavior. Motivated by the proliferation of eLearning lecture delivery, we specifically focus on student in-video activity in lectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Yun-Wei Chu , Elizabeth Tenorio , Laura Cruz , Kerrie Douglas , Andrew S. Lan , Christopher G. Brinton

Now-a-days the amount of data stored in educational database increasing rapidly. These databases contain hidden information for improvement of students' performance. Educational data mining is used to study the data available in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Surjeet Kumar Yadav , Saurabh Pal

Clustering is a usual unsupervised machine learning technique for grouping the data points into groups based upon similar features. We focus here on unsupervised clustering for contaminated data, i.e in the case where K-medians should be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Antoine Godichon-Baggioni , Sobihan Surendran

Learners regularly abandon online coding tutorials when they get bored or frustrated, but there are few techniques for anticipating this abandonment to intervene. In this paper, we examine the feasibility of predicting abandonment with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 An Yan , Michael J. Lee , Andrew J. Ko

An educational institution needs to have an approximate prior knowledge of enrolled students to predict their performance in future academics. This helps them to identify promising students and also provides them an opportunity to pay…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-10-09 Kalpesh Adhatrao , Aditya Gaykar , Amiraj Dhawan , Rohit Jha , Vipul Honrao

Gaining insight into course choices holds significant value for universities, especially those who aim for flexibility in their programs and wish to adapt quickly to changing demands of the job market. However, little emphasis has been put…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Erla Guðrún Sturludóttir , Eydís Arnardóttir , Gísli Hjálmtýsson , María Óskarsdóttir

With the development of information technology, the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the field of education shows great potential. This study aims to explore how to utilize K-means clustering algorithm to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Qianru Wei , Jihaoyu Yang , Cheng Zhang , Jinming Yang

The goal of this paper is to provide a method, which is able to find categories of traffic scenarios automatically. The architecture consists of three main components: A microscopic traffic simulation, a clustering technique and a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-08 Friedrich Kruber , Jonas Wurst , Eduardo Sánchez Morales , Samarjit Chakraborty , Michael Botsch

In this work, we present LOTUS (Learning to Learn with Optimal Transport for Unsupervised Scenarios), a simple yet effective method to perform model selection for multiple unsupervised machine learning(ML) tasks such as outlier detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Prabhant Singh , Pieter Gijsbers , Elif Ceren Gok Yildirim , Murat Onur Yildirim , Joaquin Vanschoren

Subtype Discovery consists in finding interpretable and consistent sub-parts of a dataset, which are also relevant to a certain supervised task. From a mathematical point of view, this can be defined as a clustering task driven by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-06 Robin Louiset , Pietro Gori , Benoit Dufumier , Josselin Houenou , Antoine Grigis , Edouard Duchesnay

Improving students academic performance is not an easy task for the academic community of higher learning. The academic performance of engineering and science students during their first year at university is a turning point in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-11-28 Md. Hedayetul Islam Shovon , Mahfuza Haque

In this paper, a supervised clustering based-heuristic is proposed for the real-time implementation of approximate solutions to stochastic nonlinear model predictive control frameworks. The key idea is to update on-line a low cardinality…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Mazen Alamir

The time it takes a student to graduate with a university degree is mitigated by a variety of factors such as their background, the academic performance at university, and their integration into the social communities of the university they…

Physics Education · Physics 2021-01-27 John M. Aiken , Riccardo De Bin , Morten Hjorth-Jensen , Marcos D. Caballero

This full paper in the research track evaluates the usage of data logged from cybersecurity exercises in order to predict students who are potentially at risk of performing poorly. Hands-on exercises are essential for learning since they…

Understanding students' misconceptions is important for effective teaching and assessment. However, discovering such misconceptions manually can be time-consuming and laborious. Automated misconception discovery can address these challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Yang Shi , Krupal Shah , Wengran Wang , Samiha Marwan , Poorvaja Penmetsa , Thomas W. Price

The ability to monitor the progress of students academic performance is a critical issue to the academic community of higher learning. A system for analyzing students results based on cluster analysis and uses standard statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-02-12 O. J. Oyelade , O. O. Oladipupo , I. C. Obagbuwa

Student performance prediction - where a machine forecasts the future performance of students as they interact with online coursework - is a challenging problem. Reliable early-stage predictions of a student's future performance could be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Byung-Hak Kim , Ethan Vizitei , Varun Ganapathi

Deep clustering can optimize representations of instances (i.e., representation learning) and explore the inherent data distribution (i.e., clustering) simultaneously, which demonstrates a superior performance over conventional clustering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Qi Qian

This paper presents a multiple learner algorithm called the 'Three Ensemble Clustering 3EC' algorithm that classifies unlabeled data into quality clusters as a part of unsupervised learning. It offers the flexibility to explore the context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Kundu , Debasish