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