Learning Time Acceleration in Support Vector Regression: A Case Study in Educational Data Mining

Jonatha Sousa Pimentel, Raydonal Ospina and Anderson Ara
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Jonatha Sousa Pimentel: Statistics Department, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador 40170-110, Brazil
Raydonal Ospina: Statistics Department, CASTLab, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife 50670-901, Brazil
Anderson Ara: Statistics Department, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador 40170-110, Brazil

Stats, 2021, vol. 4, issue 3, 1-19

Abstract: The development of a country involves directly investing in the education of its citizens. Learning analytics/educational data mining (LA/EDM) allows access to big observational structured/unstructured data captured from educational settings and relies mostly on machine learning algorithms to extract useful information. Support vector regression (SVR) is a supervised statistical learning approach that allows modelling and predicts the performance tendency of students to direct strategic plans for the development of high-quality education. In Brazil, performance can be evaluated at the national level using the average grades of a student on their National High School Exams (ENEMs) based on their socioeconomic information and school records. In this paper, we focus on increasing the computational efficiency of SVR applied to ENEM for online requisitions. The results are based on an analysis of a massive data set composed of more than five million observations, and they also indicate computational learning time savings of more than 90%, as well as providing a prediction of performance that is compatible with traditional modeling.

Keywords: machine learning; support vector machine; massive data sets; education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 C10 C11 C14 C15 C16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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