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It is common knowledge that the quantity and quality of the training data play a significant role in the creation of a good machine learning model. In this paper, we take it one step further and demonstrate that the way the training…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-12 Georgios Karakasidis , Tamás Grósz , Mikko Kurimo

Curriculum design is a fundamental component of education. For example, when we learn mathematics at school, we build upon our knowledge of addition to learn multiplication. These and other concepts must be mastered before our first algebra…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Parantak Singh , You Li , Ankur Sikarwar , Weixian Lei , Daniel Gao , Morgan Bruce Talbot , Ying Sun , Mike Zheng Shou , Gabriel Kreiman , Mengmi Zhang

Curriculum Learning (CL) is a technique of training models via ranking examples in a typically increasing difficulty trend with the aim of accelerating convergence and improving generalisability. Current approaches for Natural Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Fenia Christopoulou , Gerasimos Lampouras , Ignacio Iacobacci

Inspired by human learning, researchers have proposed ordering examples during training based on their difficulty. Both curriculum learning, exposing a network to easier examples early in training, and anti-curriculum learning, showing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Xiaoxia Wu , Ethan Dyer , Behnam Neyshabur

Curriculum learning (CL) - ordering training data from easy to hard - has become a popular strategy for improving reasoning in large language models (LLMs). Yet prior work employs disparate difficulty metrics and training setups, leaving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yaning Jia , Chunhui Zhang , Xingjian Diao , Xiangchi Yuan , Zhongyu Ouyang , Chiyu Ma , Soroush Vosoughi

We introduce a method for automatically selecting the path, or syllabus, that a neural network follows through a curriculum so as to maximise learning efficiency. A measure of the amount that the network learns from each data sample is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Alex Graves , Marc G. Bellemare , Jacob Menick , Remi Munos , Koray Kavukcuoglu

We provide theoretical investigation of curriculum learning in the context of stochastic gradient descent when optimizing the convex linear regression loss. We prove that the rate of convergence of an ideal curriculum learning method is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Daphna Weinshall , Gad Cohen , Dan Amir

Curriculum learning in reinforcement learning is used to shape exploration by presenting the agent with increasingly complex tasks. The idea of curriculum learning has been largely applied in both animal training and pedagogy. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Francesco Foglino , Christiano Coletto Christakou , Matteo Leonetti

Recent advancements in data-to-text generation largely take on the form of neural end-to-end systems. Efforts have been dedicated to improving text generation systems by changing the order of training samples in a process known as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Ernie Chang , Hui-Syuan Yeh , Vera Demberg

Recent advances in deep learning techniques have achieved remarkable performance in several computer vision problems. A notably intuitive technique called Curriculum Learning (CL) has been introduced recently for training deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Muhammad Asif Khan , Hamid Menouar , Ridha Hamila

Curriculum learning can improve neural network training by guiding the optimization to desirable optima. We propose a novel curriculum learning approach for image classification that adapts the loss function by changing the label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Urun Dogan , Aniket Anand Deshmukh , Marcin Machura , Christian Igel

We explore different curriculum learning methods for training convolutional neural networks on the task of deformable pairwise 3D medical image registration. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to attempt to improve performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Mihail Burduja , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Curriculum learning is a learning method that trains models in a meaningful order from easier to harder samples. A key here is to devise automatic and objective difficulty measures of samples. In the medical domain, previous work applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Zhengbo Zhou , Jun Luo , Dooman Arefan , Gene Kitamura , Shandong Wu

When faced with learning challenging new tasks, humans often follow sequences of steps that allow them to incrementally build up the necessary skills for performing these new tasks. However, in machine learning, models are most often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Otilia Stretcu , Emmanouil Antonios Platanios , Tom M. Mitchell , Barnabás Póczos

Curriculum learning, a training technique where data is presented to the model in order of example difficulty (e.g., from simpler to more complex documents), has shown limited success for pre-training language models. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Loris Schoenegger , Lukas Thoma , Terra Blevins , Benjamin Roth

Dropout is a very effective way of regularizing neural networks. Stochastically "dropping out" units with a certain probability discourages over-specific co-adaptations of feature detectors, preventing overfitting and improving network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Pietro Morerio , Jacopo Cavazza , Riccardo Volpi , Rene Vidal , Vittorio Murino

Curriculum Learning is a powerful training method that allows for faster and better training in some settings. This method, however, requires having a notion of which examples are difficult and which are easy, which is not always trivial to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Alain Raymond-Saez , Julio Hurtado , Alvaro Soto

Curriculum Learning (CL) is the idea that learning on a training set sequenced or ordered in a manner where samples range from easy to difficult, results in an increment in performance over otherwise random ordering. The idea parallels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Vijjini Anvesh Rao , Kaveri Anuranjana , Radhika Mamidi

We propose dynamic curriculum learning via data parameters for noise robust keyword spotting. Data parameter learning has recently been introduced for image processing, where weight parameters, so-called data parameters, for target classes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-22 Takuya Higuchi , Shreyas Saxena , Mehrez Souden , Tien Dung Tran , Masood Delfarah , Chandra Dhir

Curriculum learning is often employed in deep reinforcement learning to let the agent progress more quickly towards better behaviors. Numerical methods for curriculum learning in the literature provides only initial heuristic solutions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Francesco Foglino , Matteo Leonetti , Simone Sagratella , Ruggiero Seccia