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The prevailing educational methods predominantly rely on traditional classroom instruction or online delivery, often limiting the teachers' ability to engage effectively with all the students simultaneously. A more intrinsic method of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Swati Chowdhuri , Satadip Saha , Samadrita Karmakar , Ankur Chanda

A fundamental problem in multi-task learning (MTL) is identifying groups of tasks that should be learned together. Since training MTL models for all possible combinations of tasks is prohibitively expensive for large task sets, a crucial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Afiya Ayman , Ayan Mukhopadhyay , Aron Laszka

The world has transitioned into a new phase of online learning in response to the recent Covid19 pandemic. Now more than ever, it has become paramount to push the limits of online learning in every manner to keep flourishing the education…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Shalini Pandey , Jaideep Srivastava

The development of technologies of multimedia, linked to that of Internet and democratization of high outflow, has made henceforth E-learning possible for learners being in virtual classes and geographically distributed. The quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Bousaaid Mourad , Ayaou Tarik , Afdel Karim , Estraillier Pascal

LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) show promise on complex tasks but remain prone to coordination failures such as goal drift, error cascades, and misaligned behaviors. We propose Explicit Trait Inference (ETI), a psychologically grounded…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Suhaib Abdurahman , Etsuko Ishii , Katerina Margatina , Divya Bhargavi , Monica Sunkara , Yi Zhang

This paper presents our system for the Multi-Task Learning (MTL) Challenge in the 4th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) competition. We explore the research problems of this challenge from three aspects: 1) For obtaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Tenggan Zhang , Chuanhe Liu , Xiaolong Liu , Yuchen Liu , Liyu Meng , Lei Sun , Wenqiang Jiang , Fengyuan Zhang , Jinming Zhao , Qin Jin

Current methods for analyzing student engagement in e-learning platforms, including automated systems, often struggle with challenges such as handling fuzzy sentiment in text comments and relying on limited metadata. Traditional approaches,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Ali Hamdi , Ahmed Abdelmoneim Mazrou , Mohamed Shaltout

Event cameras are novel sensors that perceive the per-pixel intensity changes and output asynchronous event streams with high dynamic range and less motion blur. It has been shown that events alone can be used for end-task learning, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Lin Wang , Yujeong Chae , Kuk-Jin Yoon

To control the lower-limb exoskeleton robot effectively, it is essential to accurately recognize user status and environmental conditions. Previous studies have typically addressed these recognition challenges through independent models for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Joonhyun Kim , Seongmin Ha , Dongbin Shin , Seoyeon Ham , Jaepil Jang , Wansoo Kim

Measuring online behavioural student engagement often relies on simple count indicators or retrospective, predictive methods, which present challenges for real-time application. To address these limitations, we reconceptualise an existing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Laura J. Johnston , Jim E. Griffin , Ioanna Manolopoulou , Takoua Jendoubi

Multi-task learning has recently emerged as a promising solution for a comprehensive understanding of complex scenes. In addition to being memory-efficient, multi-task models, when appropriately designed, can facilitate the exchange of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Ivan Lopes , Tuan-Hung Vu , Raoul de Charette

Event detection refers to identifying event occurrences in a text and comprises of two subtasks; event identification and classification. We present EDM3, a novel approach for Event Detection that formulates three generative tasks:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Ujjwala Anantheswaran , Himanshu Gupta , Mihir Parmar , Kuntal Kumar Pal , Chitta Baral

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to enhance the performance and efficiency of machine learning models by simultaneously training them on multiple tasks. However, MTL research faces two challenges: 1) effectively modeling the relationships…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Danwei Li , Zhengyu Zhang , Siyang Yuan , Mingze Gao , Weilin Zhang , Chaofei Yang , Xi Liu , Jiyan Yang

Meta-learning has been proposed as a framework to address the challenging few-shot learning setting. The key idea is to leverage a large number of similar few-shot tasks in order to learn how to adapt a base-learner to a new task for which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Qianru Sun , Yaoyao Liu , Zhaozheng Chen , Tat-Seng Chua , Bernt Schiele

Nowadays, live video streaming events have become a mainstay in viewer's communication in large international enterprises. Provided that viewers are distributed worldwide, the main challenge resides on how to schedule the optimal event's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Stefanos Antaris , Dimitrios Rafailidis , Romina Arriaza

Online meta-learning has recently emerged as a marriage between batch meta-learning and online learning, for achieving the capability of quick adaptation on new tasks in a lifelong manner. However, most existing approaches focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Daouda Sow , Sen Lin , Yingbin Liang , Junshan Zhang

Understanding and enhancing student engagement through digital platforms is critical in higher education. This study introduces a methodology for quantifying engagement across an entire module using virtual learning environment (VLE)…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Laura J. Johnston , Jim E. Griffin , Ioanna Manolopoulou , Takoua Jendoubi

Student disengagement in online learning has become a critical challenge, particularly post-pandemic. This review explores deep learning techniques used to detect disengagement, emphasizing computer vision and affective computing as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ahmed Mohamed , Mostafa Ali , Shahd Ahmed , Nouran Hani , Mohammed Hisham , Meram Mahmoud

Online learning is a rapidly growing industry. However, a major doubt about online learning is whether students are as engaged as they are in face-to-face classes. An engagement recognition system can notify the instructors about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Chi-hsuan Wu , Shih-yang Liu , Xijie Huang , Xingbo Wang , Rong Zhang , Luca Minciullo , Wong Kai Yiu , Kenny Kwan , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Understanding student behavior in the classroom is essential to improve both pedagogical quality and student engagement. Existing methods for predicting student engagement typically require substantial annotated data to model the diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Ahmed Abdelkawy , Ahmed Elsayed , Asem Ali , Aly Farag , Thomas Tretter , Michael McIntyre