ML2Pvae: Variational Autoencoder Models for IRT Parameter Estimation

Based on the work of Curi, Converse, Hajewski, and Oliveira (2019) <doi:10.1109/IJCNN.2019.8852333>. This package provides easy-to-use functions which create a variational autoencoder (VAE) to be used for parameter estimation in Item Response Theory (IRT) - namely the Multidimensional Logistic 2-Parameter (ML2P) model. To use a neural network as such, nontrivial modifications to the architecture must be made, such as restricting the nonzero weights in the decoder according to some binary matrix Q. The functions in this package allow for straight-forward construction, training, and evaluation so that minimal knowledge of 'tensorflow' or 'keras' is required.

Version:	1.0.0.1
Depends:	R (≥ 3.6)
Imports:	keras (≥ 2.3.0), reticulate (≥ 1.0), tensorflow (≥ 2.2.0), tfprobability (≥ 0.11.0)
Suggests:	knitr, rmarkdown, testthat, R.rsp
Published:	2022-05-23
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.ML2Pvae
Author:	Geoffrey Converse [aut, cre, cph], Suely Oliveira [ctb, ths], Mariana Curi [ctb]
Maintainer:	Geoffrey Converse <converseg at gmail.com>
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://converseg.github.io
NeedsCompilation:	no
SystemRequirements:	TensorFlow (https://www.tensorflow.org), Keras (https://keras.io), TensorFlow Probability (https://www.tensorflow.org/probability)
CRAN checks:	ML2Pvae results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	ML2Pvae.pdf
Vignettes:	ML2Pvae: Variational Autoencoder Models for IRT Parameter Estimation

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Package source:	ML2Pvae_1.0.0.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: ML2Pvae_1.0.0.1.zip, r-release: ML2Pvae_1.0.0.1.zip, r-oldrel: ML2Pvae_1.0.0.1.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): ML2Pvae_1.0.0.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): ML2Pvae_1.0.0.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): ML2Pvae_1.0.0.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): ML2Pvae_1.0.0.1.tgz
Old sources:	ML2Pvae archive

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