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Curriculum learning (CL) is a training strategy that trains a machine learning model from easier data to harder data, which imitates the meaningful learning order in human curricula. As an easy-to-use plug-in, the CL strategy has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Xin Wang , Yudong Chen , Wenwu Zhu

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

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

Curriculum learning (CL) posits that machine learning models -- similar to humans -- may learn more efficiently from data that match their current learning progress. However, CL methods are still poorly understood and, in particular for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Lucas Weber , Jaap Jumelet , Paul Michel , Elia Bruni , Dieuwke Hupkes

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

Large amounts of data has made neural machine translation (NMT) a big success in recent years. But it is still a challenge if we train these models on small-scale corpora. In this case, the way of using data appears to be more important.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Chen Xu , Bojie Hu , Yufan Jiang , Kai Feng , Zeyang Wang , Shen Huang , Qi Ju , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

Curriculum learning (CL) aims to increase the performance of a learner on a given task by applying a specialized learning strategy. This strategy focuses on either the dataset, the task, or the model. There is little to no work analysing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Luca Scharr , Vanessa Toborek

Curriculum learning is a training strategy that sorts the training examples by some measure of their difficulty and gradually exposes them to the learner to improve the network performance. Motivated by our insights from implicit curriculum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Vinu Sankar Sadasivan , Anirban Dasgupta

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

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

We employ a characterization of linguistic complexity from psycholinguistic and language acquisition research to develop data-driven curricula to understand the underlying linguistic knowledge that models learn to address NLP tasks. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Mohamed Elgaar , Hadi Amiri

Curriculum Learning (CL) aims to improve the outcome of model training by estimating the difficulty of samples and scheduling them accordingly. In NLP, difficulty is commonly approximated using task-agnostic linguistic heuristics or human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Vanessa Toborek , Sebastian Müller , Christian Bauckhage

Curriculum learning (CL) describes a machine learning training strategy in which samples are gradually introduced into the training process based on their difficulty. Despite a partially contradictory body of evidence in the literature, CL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Simon Rampp , Manuel Milling , Andreas Triantafyllopoulos , Björn W. Schuller

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 used to improve the quality of text generation systems by ordering the training samples according to a particular schedule in various tasks. In the context of data-to-text generation (DTG), previous studies used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Kancharla Aditya Hari , Manish Gupta , Vasudeva Varma

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

Learning-based techniques, especially advanced pre-trained models for code have demonstrated capabilities in code understanding and generation, solving diverse software engineering (SE) tasks. Despite the promising results, current training…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Kyi Shin Khant , Hong Yi Lin , Patanamon Thongtanunam

Language Models like ELMo and BERT have provided robust representations of natural language, which serve as the language understanding component for a diverse range of downstream tasks.Curriculum learning is a method that employs a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Daniel Campos

Curriculum learning is a training mechanism in reinforcement learning (RL) that facilitates the achievement of complex policies by progressively increasing the task difficulty during training. However, designing effective curricula for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Kanghyun Ryu , Qiayuan Liao , Zhongyu Li , Payam Delgosha , Koushil Sreenath , Negar Mehr

Text classification is a very classic NLP task, but it has two prominent shortcomings: On the one hand, text classification is deeply domain-dependent. That is, a classifier trained on the corpus of one domain may not perform so well in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Zilin Yuan , Yinghui Li , Yangning Li , Rui Xie , Wei Wu , Hai-Tao Zheng
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