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In-sample Curriculum Learning by Sequence Completion for Natural Language Generation

21 Nov 2022arXiv:2211.11297archive 2025-07-28

Qi Jia, Yizhu Liu, Haifeng Tang, Kenny Q. Zhu

Curriculum learning has shown promising improvements in multiple domains by training machine learning models from easy samples to hard ones. Previous works which either design rules or train models for scoring the difficulty highly rely on task-specific expertise, and cannot generalize. Inspired by the "easy-to-hard" intuition, we propose to do in-sample curriculum learning for natural language generation tasks. Our learning strategy starts training the model to generate the last few words, i.e., do sequence completion, and gradually extends to generate the whole output sequence. Comprehensive experiments show that it generalizes well to different tasks and achieves significant improvements over strong baselines.

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