This is the code for the paper "Prioritized training on points that are learnable, worth learning, and not yet learned".

The code uses PyTorch Lightning, Hydra for config file management, and Weights & Biases for logging. The codebase is adapted from this great template.

Conda: conda install --file my_environment.yaml

Poetry: poetry install

The repository also contains a singularity container definition file that can be built and used to run the experiments. See the singularity folder.

tutorial.ipynb contains the full training pipeline (irreducible loss model training and target model training) on CIFAR-10. This is the best place to start if you want to understand the code or reproduce our results.

The codebase contains the functionality for all the experiments in the paper (and more 😜).

Start with run_irreducible.py(which then calls src/train_irreducible.py). The base config file is configs/irreducible_training.yaml.

Start with run.py(which then calls src/train.py). The base config file is configs/config.yaml. A key file is src//models/MultiModels.py---this is the LightningModule that handles the training loop incl. batch selection.

The datamodules are implemented in src/datamodules/datamodules.py, the individual datasets in src/datamodules/dataset/sequence_datasets. If you want to add your own dataset, note that __getitem__() needs to return the tuple (index, input, target), where index is the index of the datapoint with respect to the overall dataset (this is required so that we can match the irreducible losses to the correct datapoints).

All the selection methods mentioned in the paper (and more) are implemented in src/curricula/selection_methods.py.

All ALBERT experiments are implemented in a separate branch, which is a bit less clean. Good luck :-)

This repo can be used to reproduce all the experiments in the paper. Check out configs/experiment for some example experiment configs. The experiment files for the main results are:

• CIFAR-10: cifar10_resnet18_irred.yaml and cifar10_resnet18_main.yaml
• CINIC-10: cinic10_resnet18_irred.yaml and cinic10_resnet18_main.yaml
• CIFAR-100: cifar100_resnet18_irred.yaml and cifar100_resnet18_main.yaml
• Clothing-1M: c1m_resnet18_irred.yaml and c1m_resnet50_main.yaml

NLP datasets, on a separate branch:

• CoLA:
  • Irreducible loss model training: python run_irreducible_nlp.py +experiment=nlp trainer.max_epochs=10 callbacks=val_loss datamodule.task_name=sst2 trainer.val_check_interval=0.05
  • Target model training: python run_nlp.py +experiment=nlp datamodule.task_name=cola trainer.max_epochs=100 irreducible_loss_generator.f=\"path/to/file" selection_method_nlp=reducible_loss_selection
• SST2:
  • Irreducible loss model training: python run_irreducible_nlp.py +experiment=nlp trainer.max_epochs=10 callbacks=val_loss datamodule.task_name=sst2 trainer.val_check_interval=0.05
  • Target model training: python run_nlp.py +experiment=nlp trainer.max_epochs=15 datamodule.task_name=sst2 +trainer.val_check_interval=0.2 irreducible_loss_generator.f=\"path/to/file" selection_method_nlp=reducible_loss_selection

To run the importance sampling experiments:

Importance sampling on CINIC10

python3 run_simple.py datamodule.data_dir=$DATA_DIR +experiment=importance_sampling_baseline.yaml