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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

In recent years, heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) have achieved excellent performance in handling heterogeneous information networks (HINs). Curriculum learning is a machine learning strategy where training examples are presented…

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We present two architectures for multi-task learning with neural sequence models. Our approach allows the relationships between different tasks to be learned dynamically, rather than using an ad-hoc pre-defined structure as in previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Pengfei Liu , Jie Fu , Yue Dong , Xipeng Qiu , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

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

Recently, researches have explored the graph neural network (GNN) techniques on text classification, since GNN does well in handling complex structures and preserving global information. However, previous methods based on GNN are mainly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Lianzhe Huang , Dehong Ma , Sujian Li , Xiaodong Zhang , Houfeng WANG

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 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

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…

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Graph classification is a pivotal challenge in machine learning, especially within the realm of graph-based data, given its importance in numerous real-world applications such as social network analysis, recommendation systems, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Bowen Zhang , Zhichao Huang , Genan Dai , Guangning Xu , Xiaomao Fan , Hu Huang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the backbone for a myriad of tasks pertaining to graphs and similar topological data structures. While many works have been established in domains related to node and graph classification/regression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Appan Rakaraddi , Siew Kei Lam , Mahardhika Pratama , Marcus De Carvalho

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…

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The superior performance of modern deep networks usually comes with a costly training procedure. This paper presents a new curriculum learning approach for the efficient training of visual backbones (e.g., vision Transformers). Our work is…

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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…

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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 (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

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

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

Sequence labeling models often benefit from incorporating external knowledge. However, this practice introduces data heterogeneity and complicates the model with additional modules, leading to increased expenses for training a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Xuemei Tang , Jun Wang , Qi Su , Chu-ren Huang , Jinghang Gu

Reinforcement learning (rl) is a popular paradigm for sequential decision making problems. The past decade's advances in rl have led to breakthroughs in many challenging domains such as video games, board games, robotics, and chip design.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yanick Schraner

Spatial-temporal (ST) graph modeling, such as traffic speed forecasting and taxi demand prediction, is an important task in deep learning area. However, for the nodes in graph, their ST patterns can vary greatly in difficulties for…

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