disentangling-curriculum-learning-in-nlp-towards-a-unifying-taxonomy-fb1d2245·1 events·first seen Aliases: Disentangling Curriculum Learning in NLP: Towards a Unifying Taxonomy
A new arXiv preprint proposes a fine-grained taxonomy for curriculum learning (CL) in NLP, separating difficulty evaluation from training scheduling to enable systematic comparison of CL strategies. The authors identify a 'systematic incomparability problem' in prior work, where different notions of difficulty and scheduling are conflated under the same CL label. The paper provides the first formal treatment of CL schedulers in terms of expected training contribution, introducing retention regimes and monotonicity properties. The work is primarily a conceptual and analytical contribution aimed at improving rigor in CL research rather than reporting new empirical results.