Schedule

The HEXED Workshop will be held on Sunday, 20 July 2025 9:00AM–4:45PM UTC+2 (CET).

Zoom room for online participants

The schedule is as follows:

09:00–09:30amWelcome and opening remarks
09:30–10:00amInvited keynote talk: Giora Alexandron
10:00–10:30amWorking session 1: Framing problems and needs
10:30–11:00amCoffee break
11:00–12:15pmPoster Session + lightning talks
12:15-01:00pmPanel debate: XAI in the age of LLMs
01:00–02:10pmLunch break
02:10-02:15pmLightning Overview: XAI-ED workshop
02:15–02:45pmWorking session 2: Breakout group brainstorming
02:45-03:30pmInvited keynote talk: Przemysław Biecek (online)
03:30–04:00pmCoffee break
04:00–04:30pmWorking session 3: Creating a shared vision
04:30–04:45pmClosing thoughts

* subject to change

Accepted papers

Research papers

  • Explainable Survival Student Dropout Prediction Models: A Case Study on Open University Learning Analytics Dataset [paper]
    Mustafa Cavus and Jakub Kuzilek
  • Human-grounded XAI: An evaluation of explanation faithfulness and intelligibility for interpretable neural networks [paper]
    Juan Pinto and Luc Paquette
  • Human Experts vs. LLMs: Who Is Better at Explaining Student Clustering? [paper]
    Elad Yacobson, Shelley Rap, Ron Blonder and Giora Alexandron
  • RegKT: Interpretable and robust Deep Knowledge Tracing with IRT-regularizer [paper]
    Samuel Girard, Juan Pinto, Jill-Jênn Vie and Amel Bouzeghoub

Encore papers

  • Improving Course Recommendation Systems with Explainable AI: LLM-Based Frameworks and Evaluations [paper @ EDM proceedings]
    Jiawei Li, Qianru Lyu, Wei Qiu and Andy W. H. Khong
  • A Constraints-Based Approach to Fully Interpretable Neural Networks for Detecting Learner Behaviors [paper @ EDM proceedings]
    Juan D. Pinto & Luc Paquette