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EduRiskX addresses the interpretability gap in student risk prediction by combining temporal Transformers with F-Logic symbolic reasoning to create a transparent diagnostic system grounded in educational theory. This neuro-symbolic approach not only improves early detection rates but also provides structured explanations that link behavioral patterns to established pedagogical models, potentially resolving trust issues in real-world deployment.
EduRiskX: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework with F-Logic Reasoning for Early Academic Risk Prediction
arXiv:2608.26107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting students' academic risk in online education is crucial for enabling timely interventions that can improve retention and learning outcomes. However, existing models often suffer from limited early detection capability and insufficient interpretability, leading to a "black-box" trust crisis that hinders their adoption in real-world pedagogical settings. To address these challenges, we propose EduRiskX, a neuro-symbolic framework that integrates a temporal Transformer-based predictor with F-Logic symbolic reasoning. The neural component models longitudinal student activity sequences using temporal attention, class-weighted loss, and dynamic weekly truncation. Acting as a data-driven expert system, an F-Logic rule base -- grounded in established educational theories (Engagement Theory and Student Integration Model) to mimic the diagnostic logic of human educators -- is constructed exclusively from the training data. The neural risk probability and the symbolic confidence score are then combined through a logistic regression-based fusion mechanism that learns the relative contribution of each signal. Experiments on the Open University Learning Analytics Dataset (OULAD) using a strict 80/10/10 student-level split show that EduRiskX achieves an accuracy of 0.900 and an F1-score of 0.894 at the end of the semester (Week 38), with an average early detection week of 9.32 and a detection rate of 94.30 percent. Compared with state-of-the-art time-series models (PatchTST, iTransformer) and common deep learning baselines (LSTM, CNN), EduRiskX yields improved recall and earlier risk identification under identical conditions. Beyond predictive performance, the F-Logic module provides structured rule-based explanations linking predictions to observable behavioral patterns and educational theories.
Abstract:Predicting students' academic risk in online education is crucial for enabling timely interventions that can improve retention and learning outcomes. However, existing models often suffer from limited early detection capability and insufficient interpretability, leading to a "black-box" trust crisis that hinders their adoption in real-world pedagogical settings. To address these challenges, we propose EduRiskX, a neuro-symbolic framework that integrates a temporal Transformer-based predictor with F-Logic symbolic reasoning. The neural component models longitudinal student activity sequences using temporal attention, class-weighted loss, and dynamic weekly truncation. Acting as a data-driven expert system, an F-Logic rule base -- grounded in established educational theories (Engagement Theory and Student Integration Model) to mimic the diagnostic logic of human educators -- is constructed exclusively from the training data. The neural risk probability and the symbolic confidence score are then combined through a logistic regression-based fusion mechanism that learns the relative contribution of each signal. Experiments on the Open University Learning Analytics Dataset (OULAD) using a strict 80/10/10 student-level split show that EduRiskX achieves an accuracy of 0.900 and an F1-score of 0.894 at the end of the semester (Week 38), with an average early detection week of 9.32 and a detection rate of 94.30 percent. Compared with state-of-the-art time-series models (PatchTST, iTransformer) and common deep learning baselines (LSTM, CNN), EduRiskX yields improved recall and earlier risk identification under identical conditions. Beyond predictive performance, the F-Logic module provides structured rule-based explanations linking predictions to observable behavioral patterns and educational theories.
Previously available on Research Square: this https URL. This version presents the complete neuro-symbolic framework, EduRiskX, integrating temporal Transformers with F-Logic reasoning
Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2608.26107 [cs.AI]
(or arXiv:2608.26107v1 [cs.AI] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-8877832/v1 DOI(s) linking to related resources
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