Learning to Solve Complex Problems via Dataset Decomposition

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Auteurs principaux: Zhao, Wanru, Caccia, Lucas, Shi, Zhengyan, Kim, Minseon, Xu, Weijia, Sordoni, Alessandro
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Publié: 2026
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author Zhao, Wanru
Caccia, Lucas
Shi, Zhengyan
Kim, Minseon
Xu, Weijia
Sordoni, Alessandro
author_facet Zhao, Wanru
Caccia, Lucas
Shi, Zhengyan
Kim, Minseon
Xu, Weijia
Sordoni, Alessandro
contents Curriculum learning is a class of training strategies that organizes the data being exposed to a model by difficulty, gradually from simpler to more complex examples. This research explores a reverse curriculum generation approach that recursively decomposes complex datasets into simpler, more learnable components. We propose a teacher-student framework where the teacher is equipped with the ability to reason step-by-step, which is used to recursively generate easier versions of examples, enabling the student model to progressively master difficult tasks. We propose a novel scoring system to measure data difficulty based on its structural complexity and conceptual depth, allowing curriculum construction over decomposed data. Experiments on math datasets (MATH and AIME) and code generation datasets demonstrate that models trained with curricula generated by our approach exhibit superior performance compared to standard training on original datasets.
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spellingShingle Learning to Solve Complex Problems via Dataset Decomposition
Zhao, Wanru
Caccia, Lucas
Shi, Zhengyan
Kim, Minseon
Xu, Weijia
Sordoni, Alessandro
Machine Learning
Curriculum learning is a class of training strategies that organizes the data being exposed to a model by difficulty, gradually from simpler to more complex examples. This research explores a reverse curriculum generation approach that recursively decomposes complex datasets into simpler, more learnable components. We propose a teacher-student framework where the teacher is equipped with the ability to reason step-by-step, which is used to recursively generate easier versions of examples, enabling the student model to progressively master difficult tasks. We propose a novel scoring system to measure data difficulty based on its structural complexity and conceptual depth, allowing curriculum construction over decomposed data. Experiments on math datasets (MATH and AIME) and code generation datasets demonstrate that models trained with curricula generated by our approach exhibit superior performance compared to standard training on original datasets.
title Learning to Solve Complex Problems via Dataset Decomposition
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20296