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Item response theory (IRT) models are a class of statistical models used to describe the response behaviors of individuals to a set of items having a certain number of options. They are adopted by researchers in social science, particularly…

Computation · Statistics 2014-04-16 Angelo Mazza , Antonio Punzo , Brian McGuire

The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of ChatGPT 3.5 in developing algorithms for data generation within the framework of Item Response Theory (IRT) using the R programming language. In this context, validity…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Hatice Gurdil , Yesim Beril Soguksu , Salih Salihoglu , Fatma Coskun

We illustrate a class of Item Response Theory (IRT) models for binary and ordinal polythomous items and we describe an R package for dealing with these models, which is named MultiLCIRT. The models at issue extend traditional IRT models…

Applications · Statistics 2012-10-22 Francesco Bartolucci , Silvia Bacci , Michela Gnaldi

Item Response Theory (IRT) is a well known method for assessing responses from humans in education and psychology. In education, IRT is used to infer student abilities and characteristics of test items from student responses. Interactions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Antti Keurulainen , Isak Westerlund , Oskar Keurulainen , Andrew Howes

Evaluation of NLP methods requires testing against a previously vetted gold-standard test set and reporting standard metrics (accuracy/precision/recall/F1). The current assumption is that all items in a given test set are equal with regards…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-26 John P. Lalor , Hao Wu , Hong Yu

Item response theory (IRT) models for categorical response data are widely used in the analysis of educational data, computerized adaptive testing, and psychological surveys. However, most IRT models rely on both the assumption that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-14 Ryan Ning , Andrew E. Waters , Christoph Studer , Richard G. Baraniuk

This paper presents catsim, the first package written in the Python language specialized in computerized adaptive tests and the logistical models of Item Response Theory. catsim provides functions for generating item and examinee…

Applications · Statistics 2018-07-23 Douglas De Rizzo Meneghetti , Plinio Thomaz Aquino Junior

Pyrit is a field simulation software based on the finite element method written in Python to solve coupled systems of partial differential equations. It is designed as a modular software that is easily modifiable and extendable. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Jonas Bundschuh , M. Greta Ruppert , Yvonne Späck-Leigsnering

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across a wide range of natural language tasks. However, selecting the optimal LLM to respond to a user query often necessitates a delicate balance between performance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Wei Song , Zhenya Huang , Cheng Cheng , Weibo Gao , Bihan Xu , GuanHao Zhao , Fei Wang , Runze Wu

Dynamic Item Response Models extend the standard Item Response Theory (IRT) to capture temporal dynamics in learner ability. While these models have the potential to allow instructional systems to actively monitor the evolution of learner…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Yunsung Kim , Sreechan Sankaranarayanan , Chris Piech , Candace Thille

While recent advancements in Neural Ranking Models have resulted in significant improvements over traditional statistical retrieval models, it is generally acknowledged that the use of large neural architectures and the application of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Sourav Saha , Harsh Agarwal , V Venktesh , Avishek Anand , Swastik Mohanty , Debapriyo Majumdar , Mandar Mitra

OpenMatch is a Python-based library that serves for Neural Information Retrieval (Neu-IR) research. It provides self-contained neural and traditional IR modules, making it easy to build customized and higher-capacity IR systems. In order to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Zhenghao Liu , Kaitao Zhang , Chenyan Xiong , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Cognitive diagnosis is a fundamental and crucial task in many educational applications, e.g., computer adaptive test and cognitive assignments. Item Response Theory (IRT) is a classical cognitive diagnosis method which can provide…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Song Cheng , Qi Liu

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) typically requires thousands of benchmark items, making the process expensive, slow, and increasingly impractical at scale. Existing evaluation protocols rely on average accuracy over fixed item sets,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Peiyu Li , Xiuxiu Tang , Si Chen , Ying Cheng , Ronald Metoyer , Ting Hua , Nitesh V. Chawla

In this paper, we present a complete framework for quickly calibrating and administering a robust large-scale computerized adaptive test (CAT) with a small number of responses. Calibration - learning item parameters in a test - is done…

In \textit{computer-based testing} it has become standard to collect response accuracy (RA) and response times (RTs) for each test item. IRT models are used to measure a latent variable (e.g., ability, intelligence) using the RA…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-21 Jean-Paul Fox , Konrad Klotzke , Ahmet Salih Simsek

PyTorch Adapt is a library for domain adaptation, a type of machine learning algorithm that re-purposes existing models to work in new domains. It is a fully-featured toolkit, allowing users to create a complete train/test pipeline in a few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Kevin Musgrave , Serge Belongie , Ser-Nam Lim

We propose a dyadic Item Response Theory (dIRT) model for measuring interactions of pairs of individuals when the responses to items represent the actions (or behaviors, perceptions, etc.) of each individual (actor) made within the context…

Applications · Statistics 2025-01-08 Brian Gin , Nicholas Sim , Anders Skrondal , Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

Item Response Theory (IRT) and Factor Analysis (FA) are two major frameworks used to model multi-item measurements of latent traits. While the relationship between two-parameter IRT models and dichotomized FA models is well established, IRT…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-03 Ján Pavlech , Patrícia Martinková

The $\texttt{torch-choice}$ is an open-source library for flexible, fast choice modeling with Python and PyTorch. $\texttt{torch-choice}$ provides a $\texttt{ChoiceDataset}$ data structure to manage databases flexibly and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Tianyu Du , Ayush Kanodia , Susan Athey