Enhancing Continuous Cognitive Diagnosis with Fuzzy Strategy-Based Hybrid Genetic Algorithm

Continuous cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) are vital tools for assessing students’ mastery of knowledge points. However, traditional probability-based CDMs are prone to falling into local optima due to their use of single-point search methods, which can affect the accuracy of the models. To address this issue, we propose a hybrid genetic algorithm (HGA) enhanced with a fuzzy strategy to improve continuous cognitive diagnosis. This approach introduces the multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) as a local search operator to boost diagnostic precision. Additionally, considering the limitation on the number of local searches within a finite time, we introduce a fuzzy strategy that dynamically adjusts the number of local searches by evaluating the similarity between the current population and the elite set, thus balancing global and local search. Experimental results on three real-world datasets demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms six existing comparison models, validating the effectiveness of the fuzzy strategy and continuous CDM.