arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

Accuracy Is Not Enough: A Cross-Architecture Audit of Demographic Bias in Deep Knowledge Tracing

The study audits demographic bias across four deep knowledge tracing architectures—DKT, DKVMN, SAKT, and AKT—using two large public datasets (Eedi and OULAD). It finds that bias is context‑dependent: socioeconomic bias is significant on Eedi, while gender bias appears on OULAD for most models. The most accurate model, AKT, also exhibits the greatest bias, and standard mitigation techniques such as reweighting and adversarial debiasing fail to reduce bias without sacrificing accuracy.

By Dang Quang Minh, Nguyen Dung Son, Nguyen Huu Loi, Truong Viet Vu, Nguyen Thai Anh