Curriculum learning by optimizing learning dynamics

T Zhou, S Wang, J Bilmes - International Conference on …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
We study a novel curriculum learning scheme where in each round, samples are selected to
achieve the greatest progress and fastest learning speed towards the ground-truth on all …

Curriculum learning by dynamic instance hardness

T Zhou, S Wang, J Bilmes - Advances in Neural Information …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
A good teacher can adjust the curriculum based on students' learning history. By analogy, in
this paper, we study the dynamics of a deep neural network's (DNN) performance on …

Curriculum learning by transfer learning: Theory and experiments with deep networks

D Weinshall, G Cohen, D Amir - International conference on …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
We provide theoretical investigation of curriculum learning in the context of stochastic
gradient descent when optimizing the convex linear regression loss. We prove that the rate …

Theory of curriculum learning, with convex loss functions

D Weinshall, D Amir - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2020 - jmlr.org
Curriculum Learning is motivated by human cognition, where teaching often involves
gradually exposing the learner to examples in a meaningful order, from easy to hard …

[PDF][PDF] Lerac: Learning rate curriculum

FA Croitoru, NC Ristea, RT Ionescu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - researchgate.net
Most curriculum learning methods require an approach to sort the data samples by difficulty,
which is often cumbersome to perform. In this work, we propose a novel curriculum learning …

Curriculum learning with deep convolutional neural networks

V Avramova - 2015 - diva-portal.org
Curriculum learning is a machine learning technique inspired by the way humans acquire
knowledge and skills: by mastering simple concepts first, and progressing through …

Superloss: A generic loss for robust curriculum learning

T Castells, P Weinzaepfel… - Advances in Neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Curriculum learning is a technique to improve a model performance and generalization
based on the idea that easy samples should be presented before difficult ones during …

Autolrs: Automatic learning-rate schedule by bayesian optimization on the fly

Y Jin, T Zhou, L Zhao, Y Zhu, C Guo, M Canini… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The learning rate (LR) schedule is one of the most important hyper-parameters needing
careful tuning in training DNNs. However, it is also one of the least automated parts of …

A survey on curriculum learning

X Wang, Y Chen, W Zhu - IEEE transactions on pattern analysis …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Learning an adaptive learning rate schedule

Z Xu, AM Dai, J Kemp, L Metz - arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.09712, 2019 - arxiv.org
The learning rate is one of the most important hyper-parameters for model training and
generalization. However, current hand-designed parametric learning rate schedules offer …