Summary of Does the Definition Of Difficulty Matter? Scoring Functions and Their Role For Curriculum Learning, by Simon Rampp et al.
Does the Definition of Difficulty Matter? Scoring Functions and their Role for Curriculum Learning
by Simon Rampp, Manuel Milling, Andreas Triantafyllopoulos, Björn W. Schuller
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper explores the effectiveness of curriculum learning (CL) in deep learning research, which involves gradually introducing samples into the training process based on their difficulty. Despite some contradictory findings in the literature, CL is popular due to its promise of leveraging human-inspired curricula for higher model performance. However, the subjectivity and biases associated with defining difficulty have been rarely investigated. This study examines the robustness and similarity of common scoring functions used to estimate sample difficulty, as well as their potential benefits in CL. The experiments use CIFAR-10 and the acoustic scene classification task from DCASE2020 as benchmarks for computer vision and audition, respectively. The results show a strong dependence of scoring functions on the training setting, which can be mitigated through ensemble scoring. While there is no general advantage of CL over uniform sampling, the ordering in which data is presented affects model performance. Additionally, the robustness of scoring functions positively correlates with CL performance, and models trained with different CL strategies complement each other through late fusion. The study also releases the aucurriculum toolkit, implementing sample difficulty and CL-based training. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper looks at how a training strategy called curriculum learning can help improve machine learning models. Curriculum learning is like teaching a student by gradually introducing them to more challenging material. Despite some mixed results in previous studies, many researchers think this approach can lead to better model performance. The problem is that defining what makes one sample more difficult than another can be subjective and biased. This study investigates the different ways of measuring difficulty and how they affect the training process. It uses two different datasets, one for computer vision and one for computer audition, to test its ideas. The results show that how you measure difficulty matters, but there’s no single best way. The ordering in which samples are presented also makes a difference. Overall, this study helps us understand how curriculum learning can be used to improve machine learning models. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Curriculum learning » Deep learning » Machine learning
