new paper. During learning, why does it help to practice easy examples before hard ones? We provide a theory, based on deep learning models. TL;DR - curricula help with unlearning rather than learning. arxiv.org/abs/2611.04565. Led by @RubruckJirko and Alice Zhang, with @SaxeLab
arxiv.org Curriculum unlearning in humans and neural networks During learning, humans often benefit from curricula that teach simple rules before exceptions. However, we lack a computational explanation for this phenomenon. Here, using a canonical... 
