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Machine translation systems based on deep neural networks are expensive to train. Curriculum learning aims to address this issue by choosing the order in which samples are presented during training to help train better models faster. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Xuan Zhang , Gaurav Kumar , Huda Khayrallah , Kenton Murray , Jeremy Gwinnup , Marianna J Martindale , Paul McNamee , Kevin Duh , Marine Carpuat

Curriculum learning strategies in prior multi-task learning approaches arrange datasets in a difficulty hierarchy either based on human perception or by exhaustively searching the optimal arrangement. However, human perception of difficulty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Neeraj Varshney , Swaroop Mishra , Chitta Baral

Learning curves are a concept from social sciences that has been adopted in the context of machine learning to assess the performance of a learning algorithm with respect to a certain resource, e.g., the number of training examples or the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Felix Mohr , Jan N. van Rijn

Curriculum learning-organizing training data from easy to hard-has improved efficiency across machine learning domains, yet remains underexplored for language model pretraining. We present the first systematic investigation of curriculum…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yang Zhang , Amr Mohamed , Hadi Abdine , Guokan Shang , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Sharing information between multiple tasks enables algorithms to achieve good generalization performance even from small amounts of training data. However, in a realistic scenario of multi-task learning not all tasks are equally related to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-12-04 Anastasia Pentina , Viktoriia Sharmanska , Christoph H. Lampert

We use Bayesian optimization to learn curricula for word representation learning, optimizing performance on downstream tasks that depend on the learned representations as features. The curricula are modeled by a linear ranking function…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Yulia Tsvetkov , Manaal Faruqui , Wang Ling , Brian MacWhinney , Chris Dyer

While Curriculum Learning (CL) has recently gained traction in Natural language Processing Tasks, it is still not adequately analyzed. Previous works only show their effectiveness but fail short to explain and interpret the internal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Anvesh Rao Vijjini , Kaveri Anuranjana , Radhika Mamidi

Curriculum learning has been successfully used in reinforcement learning to accelerate the learning process, through knowledge transfer between tasks of increasing complexity. Critical tasks, in which suboptimal exploratory actions must be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Francesco Foglino , Christiano Coletto Christakou , Ricardo Luna Gutierrez , Matteo Leonetti

We propose Curriculum by Masking (CBM), a novel state-of-the-art curriculum learning strategy that effectively creates an easy-to-hard training schedule via patch (token) masking, offering significant accuracy improvements over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Andrei Jarca , Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Curriculum Learning emphasizes the order of training instances in a computational learning setup. The core hypothesis is that simpler instances should be learned early as building blocks to learn more complex ones. Despite its usefulness,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Volkan Cirik , Eduard Hovy , Louis-Philippe Morency

Neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) aims at designing problem-independent and efficient neural network-based strategies for solving combinatorial problems. The field recently experienced growth by successfully adapting architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Michal Lisicki , Arash Afkanpour , Graham W. Taylor

Human attribute analysis is a challenging task in the field of computer vision, since the data is largely imbalance-distributed. Common techniques such as re-sampling and cost-sensitive learning require prior-knowledge to train the system.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Yiru Wang , Weihao Gan , Jie Yang , Wei Wu , Junjie Yan

Curriculum learning is a widely adopted training strategy in natural language processing (NLP), where models are exposed to examples organized by increasing difficulty to enhance learning efficiency and performance. However, most existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Qi Feng , Yihong Liu , Hinrich Schütze

The performance of deep segmentation models often degrades due to distribution shifts in image intensities between the training and test data sets. This is particularly pronounced in multi-centre studies involving data acquired using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Zhendong Liu , Van Manh , Xin Yang , Xiaoqiong Huang , Karim Lekadir , Víctor Campello , Nishant Ravikumar , Alejandro F Frangi , Dong Ni

Curriculum Learning (CL) is a meta-learning paradigm that trains a model by feeding the data instances incrementally according to a schedule, which is based on difficulty progression. Defining meaningful difficulty assessment measures is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Gaspard Abel , Eloi Campagne , Mohamed Benloughmari , Argyris Kalogeratos

Curriculum learning (CL) is a commonly used machine learning training strategy. However, we still lack a clear theoretical understanding of CL's benefits. In this paper, we study the benefits of CL in the multitask linear regression problem…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-16 Ziping Xu , Ambuj Tewari

Curriculum reinforcement learning (CRL) allows solving complex tasks by generating a tailored sequence of learning tasks, starting from easy ones and subsequently increasing their difficulty. Although the potential of curricula in RL has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Pascal Klink , Carlo D'Eramo , Jan Peters , Joni Pajarinen

Curriculum learning methods typically rely on heuristics to estimate the difficulty of training examples or the ability of the model. In this work, we propose replacing difficulty heuristics with learned difficulty parameters. We also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 John P. Lalor , Hong Yu

Visual attributes, from simple objects (e.g., backpacks, hats) to soft-biometrics (e.g., gender, height, clothing) have proven to be a powerful representational approach for many applications such as image description and human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Nikolaos Sarafianos , Theodore Giannakopoulos , Christophoros Nikou , Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

Given data with label noise (i.e., incorrect data), deep neural networks would gradually memorize the label noise and impair model performance. To relieve this issue, curriculum learning is proposed to improve model performance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Tingting Wu , Xiao Ding , Hao Zhang , Jinglong Gao , Li Du , Bing Qin , Ting Liu