AIED-KDD 2026
AI for Education Day at SIGKDD 2026

Table of Contents

• Preface
  18 papers were submitted for peer review, of which 11 were accepted for this volume.

Regular Papers

• Redact or Keep? A Fully Local AI Cascade for Educational Dialogue De-Identification
  Haocheng Zhang, Zhuqian Zhou, Kirk Vanacore, Bakhtawar Ahtisham, René F. Kizilcec
• The Imperfect Learner: Incorporating Developmental Trajectories in Memory-based Student Simulation
  Zhengyuan Liu, Stella Xin Yin, Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Guimei Liu, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Wenya Wang, Nancy F. Chen
• PEELing Argumentation: Scaffolding Elementary Argumentative Writing with Decomposed LLM Feedback
  Stella Xin Yin, Geyu Lin, Zhengyuan Liu, Brian Y. Lim, Nancy F. Chen
• CFL-KG: A Knowledge Graph for Instructional Support in Chinese as a Foreign Language
  Han Wang, Qianyu Wang, Yunshi Lan, Ye Wang, Yuanyuan Liang, Anqi Ding
• When Rubrics Change: Cross-Rubric Generalization for Critical Thinking Essay Scoring
  Nischal Ashok Kumar, Payu Wittawatolarn, Sana Kang, Marisa C. Peczuh, Blair Lehman, Ryan Baker, Caitlin Mills, Sherry Lachman, Ruochen Sun, Andrew Lan
• Causality-Inspired Representation Learning for Student Performance Prediction
  Boya Liu, Zijun Li, Jie Yang

Short Papers

• FairTutor: Equity-Aware Pedagogical LLM Routing for Budget-Constrained AI Tutoring
  Qingyang Xu
• From Live Concert to Pedagogical Insight: Designing an Intelligent Concert Knowledge Navigation Panel
  In Son Zeng
• AILitHub: Building AI Literacy Infrastructure to Situate Frameworks into Practice
  Jiayi Wang, Ruiwei Xiao, Manqing Yu, Hsuan Nieu, Ying-Jui Tseng, John Stamper, Xinying Hou
• Genie in a Bottle: Constrained LLM Feedback for Code Tracing Exercises
  Aysa X. Fan
• Engagement Intensity as a Learner-Modeling Signal for Adaptive AI Ethics Instruction
  YongKyung Oh, Lynn Talton, Alex Bui