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New framework disentangles curriculum learning factors for data efficiency

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Researchers have developed a new framework called Confusion-Aware Transfer Teacher Curriculum Learning to better understand the components of curriculum learning. By disentangling sample difficulty scoring from pacing, they evaluated a confusion-aware score that considers correct-class confidence and incorrect-class probability distributions. While improving the scoring function alone did not enhance accuracy on CIFAR-10 with ResNet-18 and VGG-16, the confusion-aware curriculum ordering demonstrated data-efficiency benefits, outperforming random ordering by up to 8.7% at the 20% data regime. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Savini Kommalage, Sanka Mohottala, Asiri Gawesha, Dulara Madhusanka, Menan Velayuthan, Dharshana Kasthurirathna, Mahima Milinda Alwis Weerasinghe, Charith Abhayaratne ·

    Confusion-Aware Transfer Teacher Curriculum Learning Framework: Disentangling Scoring and Pacing Effects

    arXiv:2606.17706v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Curriculum learning couples two design choices, how samples are scored by difficulty and how harder samples are paced into training, making it difficult to attribute observed gains to either component. We disentangle these factors…

  2. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Charith Abhayaratne ·

    Confusion-Aware Transfer Teacher Curriculum Learning Framework: Disentangling Scoring and Pacing Effects

    Curriculum learning couples two design choices, how samples are scored by difficulty and how harder samples are paced into training, making it difficult to attribute observed gains to either component. We disentangle these factors with two evaluation protocols: stage-wise test su…

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