Interpretable Difficulty-Aware Knowledge Tracing in Tutor-Student Dialogues

arXiv:2605.01097v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to the development of AI-powered tutoring systems that provide interactive support via dialogue. To enable these tutoring systems to provide personalized support, it is essential to assess student performance at each turn, motivating knowledge tracing (KT) in dialogue settings. However, existing dialogue-based KT approaches often ignore question difficulty modeling and rely on opaque latent r...