Curriculum Learning
Curriculum learning is a training strategy that presents examples to a model in a meaningful order, starting with easier examples and progressively introducing harder ones. This mimics human learning and can improve convergence.
Understanding Curriculum Learning
Curriculum learning is a training strategy inspired by human education, where a model is exposed to training examples in a meaningful order rather than randomly. Typically, the model first learns from simpler, less ambiguous examples before progressing to more complex or noisy ones, mimicking how students advance from basic to advanced material. This approach can accelerate convergence, improve generalization, and help models avoid poor local minima during gradient descent optimization. Curriculum learning has been applied in natural language processing for machine translation, in computer vision for object detection, and in reinforcement learning for game-playing agents. Designing the right difficulty metric is crucial, and researchers often use model confidence, loss values, or human annotations to rank example complexity within the training dataset.
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