Talukdar and Yoo propose adaptive sample selection for visual learning

Talukdar and Yoo propose adaptive sample selection for visual learning

Authors Suryansh Talukdar and Jin Soung Yoo propose OT-CAL, a method for choosing which training samples receive the more computationally expensive backward passes. They argue that useful samples change over training: difficult samples may matter early, improving samples later, and class diversity toward the end. OT-CAL represents samples with five informativeness features and uses optimal-transport-based matching to assign selection weights against a changing curriculum vector. The selected samples then update that vector, creating a feedback loop without a manually defined schedule. In experiments on three standard visual learning benchmarks, selecting 50% of each mini-batch improved performance by 1.3–2.1 points over AdaSelection and trained 1.18–1.24 times faster than full-data training. These are reported benchmark results; the abstract does not establish how the method performs beyond those experiments.

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Authors:Suryansh Talukdar, Jin Soung Yoo

summary — pass: The title, summary and question match the abstract. The summary covers the motivation (expensive backward passes and informativeness that shifts during training), the mechanism (five features, a curriculum vector, optimal-transport matching and a feedback loop) and the reported results with their conditions. A general reader can follow the aim of saving training compute. Technical terms such as backward pass, mini-batch, optimal transport and curriculum vector are kept exactly, so they suit term-library tooltips. The question raises a real open issue rather than a leading claim.

computation can be reduced by performing backward passes only on informative samples

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[Submitted on 30 Oct 2026]

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when selecting 50% of each mini-batch, OT-CAL improves performance by 1.3--2.1 points over AdaSelection while achieving 1.18--1.24 times faster training than full-data training.

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