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Curriculum learning is a class of training strategies that organizes the data being exposed to a model by difficulty, gradually from simpler to more complex examples. This research explores a reverse curriculum generation approach that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Wanru Zhao , Lucas Caccia , Zhengyan Shi , Minseon Kim , Weijia Xu , Alessandro Sordoni

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

Learning curves are a measure for how the performance of machine learning models improves given a certain volume of training data. Over a wide variety of applications and models it was observed that learning curves follow -- to a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Laura Didyk , Brayden Yarish , Michael A. Beck , Christopher P. Bidinosti , Christopher J. Henry

Standard convolutional neural networks(CNNs) require consistent image resolutions in both training and testing phase. However, in practice, testing with smaller image sizes is necessary for fast inference. We show that trivially evaluating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Zhuoran Yu , Aojun Zhou , Yukun Ma , Yudian Li , Xiaohan Zhang , Ping Luo

Hyper-spectral images are images captured from a satellite that gives spatial and spectral information of specific region.A Hyper-spectral image contains much more number of channels as compared to a RGB image, hence containing more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Uphar Singh , Tushar Musale , Ranjana Vyas , O. P. Vyas

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

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) that operate in an event-driven manner and employ binary spike representation have recently emerged as promising candidates for energy-efficient computing. However, a cost bottleneck arises in obtaining…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yunpeng Yao , Man Wu , Zheng Chen , Renyuan Zhang

Purpose: The aim of this work is to develop a neural network training framework for continual training of small amounts of medical imaging data and create heuristics to assess training in the absence of a hold-out validation or test set.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-27 Sohaib Naim , Brian Caffo , Haris I Sair , Craig K Jones

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

Neural ranking models are traditionally trained on a series of random batches, sampled uniformly from the entire training set. Curriculum learning has recently been shown to improve neural models' effectiveness by sampling batches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Gustavo Penha , Claudia Hauff

In training neural networks, it is common practice to use partial gradients computed over batches, mostly very small subsets of the training set. This approach is motivated by the argument that such a partial gradient is close to the true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Jan Spörer , Bernhard Bermeitinger , Tomas Hrycej , Niklas Limacher , Siegfried Handschuh

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 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

Curriculum Learning for Reinforcement Learning is an increasingly popular technique that involves training an agent on a sequence of intermediate tasks, called a Curriculum, to increase the agent's performance and learning speed. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Andrea Bassich , Francesco Foglino , Matteo Leonetti , Daniel Kudenko

Continual learning is a key feature of biological neural systems, but artificial neural networks often suffer from catastrophic forgetting. Instead of backpropagation, biologically plausible learning algorithms may enable stable continual…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Denis Larionov , Nikolay Bazenkov , Mikhail Kiselev

In recent years, representation learning approaches have disrupted many multimedia computing tasks. Among those approaches, deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have notably reached human level expertise on some constrained image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Lucas Pascal , Xavier Bost , Benoît Huet

Detecting and recognizing text in natural scene images is a challenging, yet not completely solved task. In re- cent years several new systems that try to solve at least one of the two sub-tasks (text detection and text recognition) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Christian Bartz , Haojin Yang , Christoph Meinel

Spatiotemporal predictive learning, which predicts future frames through historical prior knowledge with the aid of deep learning, is widely used in many fields. Previous work essentially improves the model performance by widening or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Zhifeng Ma , Hao Zhang , Jie Liu

Convolutional Neural Networks define an exceptionally powerful class of models, but are still limited by the lack of ability to be spatially invariant to the input data in a computationally and parameter efficient manner. In this work we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Max Jaderberg , Karen Simonyan , Andrew Zisserman , Koray Kavukcuoglu

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) combine deep learning with physical constraints for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), and are widely applied in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and solid mechanics. However, PINN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Xujia Chen , Xinyue Hu , Letian Chen , Daming Shi , Wenhui Fan