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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

The increasing availability of big mobility data from ubiquitous portable devices enables human mobility prediction through deep learning approaches. However, the diverse complexity of human mobility data impedes model training, leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Tianye Fang , Xuanshu Luo , Martin Werner

Curriculum learning provides a systematic approach to training. It refines training progressively, tailors training to task requirements, and improves generalization through exposure to diverse examples. We present a curriculum learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Nidhi Vakil , Hadi Amiri

Contextual information in search sessions is important for capturing users' search intents. Various approaches have been proposed to model user behavior sequences to improve document ranking in a session. Typically, training samples of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Yutao Zhu , Jian-Yun Nie , Yixuan Su , Haonan Chen , Xinyu Zhang , Zhicheng Dou

Curriculum learning (CL) structures training from simple to complex samples, facilitating progressive learning. However, existing CL approaches for emotion recognition often rely on heuristic, data-driven, or model-based definitions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ankush Pratap Singh , Houwei Cao , Yong Liu

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 (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) 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) - 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

Code language models have emerged as useful tools for various programming tasks, yet they often struggle when it comes to complex ones. In this paper, we explore the potential of curriculum learning in enhancing the performance of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Marwa Naïr , Kamel Yamani , Lynda Said Lhadj , Riyadh Baghdadi

Deep learning is increasingly viewed as a dynamical process in parameter space, yet many existing theories still treat training as a closed optimization system. This view is limited for real-world AI, where models operate under uncertainty,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Kim Phuc Tran

Learning skills by imitation is a promising concept for the intuitive teaching of robots. A common way to learn such skills is to learn a parametric model by maximizing the likelihood given the demonstrations. Yet, human demonstrations are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Maximilian Xiling Li , Onur Celik , Philipp Becker , Denis Blessing , Rudolf Lioutikov , Gerhard Neumann

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

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

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a popular paradigm for addressing sequential decision tasks in which the agent has only limited environmental feedback. Despite many advances over the past three decades, learning in many domains still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Sanmit Narvekar , Bei Peng , Matteo Leonetti , Jivko Sinapov , Matthew E. Taylor , Peter Stone

Demonstration ordering, which is an important strategy for in-context learning (ICL), can significantly affects the performance of large language models (LLMs). However, most of the current approaches of ordering require high computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yinpeng Liu , Jiawei Liu , Xiang Shi , Qikai Cheng , Yong Huang , Wei Lu

Continual learning refers to the capability of a machine learning model to learn and adapt to new information, without compromising its performance on previously learned tasks. Although several studies have investigated continual learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Jingrui Hou , Georgina Cosma , Axel Finke

Efficient instruction tuning aims to enhance the ultimate performance of large language models (LLMs) trained on a given instruction dataset. Curriculum learning as a typical data organization strategy has shown preliminary effectiveness in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yangning Li , Tingwei Lu , Yinghui Li , Yankai Chen , Wei-Chieh Huang , Wenhao Jiang , Hui Wang , Hai-Tao Zheng , Philip S. Yu

We propose Teacher-Student Curriculum Learning (TSCL), a framework for automatic curriculum learning, where the Student tries to learn a complex task and the Teacher automatically chooses subtasks from a given set for the Student to train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Tambet Matiisen , Avital Oliver , Taco Cohen , John Schulman

Quantum machine learning (QML) requires significant quantum resources to address practical real-world problems. When the underlying quantum information exhibits hierarchical structures in the data, limitations persist in training complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Quoc Hoan Tran , Yasuhiro Endo , Hirotaka Oshima