Self-Paced Learning:
- supervised method from 2010 #NIPS
- idea: start learning with the easiest samples first and only then learn the difficult ones
- distinct from curriculum learning, where samples are pre-classified to easy/hard: we need to decide the order on our own
sample in a latent model (outliers will be the hardest)
- a better measure (!): how good are the initial predictions for the sample (samples far away from the decision boundary are the easiest).

- for #classification, samples are only easy in context of other samples!
- the set of easy samples is iteratively enlarged
- results: outperforms CCCP in #DNA Motif Finding, handwritten digit recognition and others problems
- link: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/3923-self-paced-learning-for-latent-variable-models