CHUCKLE -- When Humans Teach AI To Learn Emotions The Easy Way

arXiv:2510.09382v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Curriculum learning (CL) structures training from simple to complex samples, facilitating progressive learning. However, existing CL approaches for emotion recognition often rely on heuristic, data-driven, or model-based definitions of sample difficulty, neglecting the difficulty for human perception, a critical factor in subjective tasks like emotion recognition. We propose CHUCKLE (Crowdsourced Human Understanding Curriculum for Knowledge Led Emotion Recognition), a perception-driven CL framework that leverages annotator agreement and alignment in crowd-sourced datasets to define sample difficulty, under the assumption that clips challenging for humans are similarly hard for neural networks. Experimental results suggest that CHUCKLE enhances the performance of LSTMs and Transformers over non-curriculum baselines, while reducing the number of gradient updates, thereby enhancing both training efficiency and model robustness in both subject-dependent and subject-independent settings.

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Source: arXiv cs.LG | 2026-04-29