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Improving Interpretability of Cognitive Diagnosis Models with LLM-based Semantic Augmentation

sigir26-049 · Full research paper · Youheng Bai, Jia‐qi Zheng, Mingliang Hou, Teng Guo, Mi Tian, Xiangyu Zhao, Zitao Liu, Weiqi Luo
Social Media and User Modelling · 50% User Profile and Persona Modeling · 50%
Abstract

Cognitive diagnosis aims to infer students' mastery levels over knowledge components from their learning interactions, supporting personalized education applications. However, existing models encode responses as binary correctness labels, discarding information about which specific option a student selected. This input-level information loss limits their ability to distinguish qualitatively different error types. As a result, providing interpretable diagnostic outputs becomes challenging. To address these limitations, we propose SACD, a semantic-augmented cognitive diagnosis framework that integrates LLM-based semantic analysis with student behavioral modeling. SACD comprises the following key components. First, an LLM-based exercise diagnostic generator analyzes exercise content and produces structured semantic annotations for each answer choice, capturing the specific misconceptions each option represents. Second, a kernel-based alignment mechanism projects semantic embeddings and behavioral representations into a unified kernel space, enabling effective fusion of heterogeneous information. Third, an interpretable diagnosis layer predicts student performance and generates fine-grained mastery estimates, which LLMs further process to produce actionable learning plans. Extensive experiments on three real-world datasets demonstrate that SACD achieves superior prediction accuracy while enabling interpretable, actionable diagnostics.

Assigned reviewers

#ReviewerMatchWhy (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy)
1 Weizhou Shen
41
68 Multi-Party Conversation Modeling for Emotion Recognition (2024) Social Media and User Modelling
68 DialogXL: All-in-One XLNet for Multi-Party Conversation Emotion Recognition (2021) Social Media and User Modelling
68 Directed Acyclic Graph Network for Conversational Emotion Recognition (2021) Social Media and User Modelling
2 Jimeng Sun 0001
39
73 Patent partner recommendation in enterprise social networks (2013) Social Media and User Modelling
68 Confluence: conformity influence in large social networks (2013) Social Media and User Modelling
68 MetaFac: community discovery via relational hypergraph factorization (2009) Social Media and User Modelling

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Ziyi Ye 39
Area-chair candidates (7)
Ziyi Ye assigned 3914 papers
Yi R. Fung 0001 3810 papers
Kam-Fai Wong 356 papers
Pengyue Jia COI: co-author 3410 papers
Yankai Chen 0001 326 papers
Yanan Niu 3215 papers
Kun Gai COI: co-author 315 papers

Candidates from the panel ranked by match score

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1 Weizhou Shen assigned 41 3
68 Multi-Party Conversation Modeling for Emotion Recognition (2024) Social Media and User Modelling
68 DialogXL: All-in-One XLNet for Multi-Party Conversation Emotion Recognition (2021) Social Media and User Modelling
2 Sruthi Gorantla 41 3
68 Aspect-Sentiment Embeddings for Company Profiling and Employee Opinion Mining (2018) Social Media and User Modelling
68 CASCADE: Contextual Sarcasm Detection in Online Discussion Forums (2018) Social Media and User Modelling
4 Jimeng Sun 0001 assigned 39 3
73 Patent partner recommendation in enterprise social networks (2013) Social Media and User Modelling
68 Confluence: conformity influence in large social networks (2013) Social Media and User Modelling
6 Yang Zhang 0072 38 3
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63 Agentic Feedback Loop Modeling Improves Recommendation and User Simulation (2025) User Profile and Persona Modeling
38 Navigating Large Language Models for Recommendation: From Architecture to Learning Paradigms and Deployment (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
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48 LLMs for User Interest Exploration in Large-scale Recommendation Systems (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
41 User Recommendation in Content Curation Platforms (2020) Social and Group Recommendation
11 Jin Chen 0008 COI: co-author 36 3
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12 Shijie Wang 0002 COI: co-author 35 3
71 Score-Based Generative Diffusion Models for Social Recommendations (2025) Social Media and User Modelling
65 Towards Next-Generation Recommender Systems: A Benchmark for Personalized Recommendation Assistant with LLMs (2026) Efficiency and Deployment
13 Huifeng Guo COI: co-author 35 3
50 Prompt Tuning as User Inherent Profile Inference Machine (2025) Efficiency and Deployment
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72 Learning Geo-Social User Topical Profiles with Bayesian Hierarchical User Factorization (2018) Social Media and User Modelling
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16 Lingling Yi 35 3
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35 Robust Preference-Guided Denoising for Graph based Social Recommendation (2023) Social and Group Graph Recommendation
17 Jiancan Wu 35 3
57 Let Me Do It For You: Towards LLM Empowered Recommendation via Tool Learning (2024) Reasoning Evaluation and Benchmarks
34 LLaRA: Large Language-Recommendation Assistant (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
18 Bo Peng 0009 35 3
38 HAM: Hybrid Associations Models for Sequential Recommendation (Extended abstract) (2023) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
38 $\mathop {\mathtt {HAM}}$HAM: Hybrid Associations Models for Sequential Recommendation (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
19 Fei Sun 0001 COI: co-author 35 3
38 XDM: Improving Sequential Deep Matching with Unclicked User Behaviors for Recommender System (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
37 SDM: Sequential Deep Matching Model for Online Large-scale Recommender System (2019) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation
20 Seongmin Park 0002 34 3
39 Temporal Linear Item-Item Model for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
39 Empowering Retrieval-based Conversational Recommendation with Contrasting User Preferences (2025) Conversational and Interactive Recommendation
21 Xiao Zhang 0034 34 3
47 Similarity = Value? Consultation Value-Assessment and Alignment for Personalized Search (2025) Personalized and Context-Aware Retrieval
38 Test-Time Alignment with State Space Model for Tracking User Interest Shifts in Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
23 Junjie Zhang 0009 34 3
59 AgentCF: Collaborative Learning with Autonomous Language Agents for Recommender Systems (2024) RL Training of Search Agents
45 STARec: An Efficient Agent Framework for Recommender Systems via Autonomous Deliberate Reasoning (2025) RL Training of Search Agents
24 Bo Chen 0023 COI: co-author 34 3
37 Full-Stack Optimized Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
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25 Xinhang Li 0001 COI: co-author 33 3
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32 OpenSiteRec: An Open Dataset for Site Recommendation (2024) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation
26 Hyunsik Yoo 33 3
39 Capturing User Interests from Data Streams for Continual Sequential Recommendation (2026) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
38 Mixture of Sequence: Theme-Aware Mixture-of-Experts for Long-Sequence Recommendation (2026) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation
27 Shuchang Liu 0001 COI: co-author 33 3
40 Recommendation as Language Processing (RLP): A Unified Pretrain, Personalized Prompt & Predict Paradigm (P5) (2022) Knowledge Infusion and Open-World Augmentation
36 Comprehensive List Generation for Multi-Generator Reranking (2025) Recommendation with Search and Ranking
28 Chen Wang 0052 32 3
40 Group-Aware Interest Disentangled Dual-Training for Personalized Recommendation (2023) Social and Group Recommendation
40 Ranking-based Group Identification via Factorized Attention on Social Tripartite Graph (2023) Social and Group Recommendation
29 Yi Zhang 0103 32 3
67 Bi-Directional Transfer Graph Contrastive Learning for Social Recommendation (2025) Social Media and User Modelling
61 ProEx: A Unified Framework Leveraging Large Language Model with Profile Extrapolation for Recommendation (2026) User Profile and Persona Modeling
30 Bowen Zheng 0005 32 3
38 Reciprocal Sequential Recommendation (2023) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
35 Enhancing Sequential Recommender with Large Language Models for Joint Video and Comment Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
31 Yang Song 0008 32 3
37 Understanding and Modeling Passive-Negative Feedback for Short-video Sequential Recommendation (2023) Multi-Behavior Recommendation
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32 Wenlin Zhang 0001 COI: co-author 32 3
41 Bridging Personalization and AI: From RAG to Agent (2026) Personalized and Conversational RAG
41 A Survey of Personalization: From RAG to Agent (2026) Personalized and Conversational RAG
33 Ching Law 32 3
63 Think Then Recommend: An LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Framework for Personalized Conversational Recommender System in E-Commerce (2026) Conversational Recommendation Systems
59 Profiling Users from Online Social Behaviors with Applications for Tencent Social Ads (2016) Social Media and User Modelling
36 Wei Guo 0006 32 3
38 Dataset Regeneration for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation
37 Multi-Behavior Sequential Transformer Recommender (2022) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation