Summary of Glide-rl: Grounded Language Instruction Through Demonstration in Rl, by Chaitanya Kharyal and Sai Krishna Gottipati and Tanmay Kumar Sinha and Srijita Das and Matthew E. Taylor
GLIDE-RL: Grounded Language Instruction through DEmonstration in RL
by Chaitanya Kharyal, Sai Krishna Gottipati, Tanmay Kumar Sinha, Srijita Das, Matthew E. Taylor
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a novel algorithm called GLIDE-RL that enables Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents to comprehend natural language and perform tasks accordingly. The challenge in training such agents lies in the complexity, ambiguity, and sparsity of the rewards. The authors leverage advances in RL, curriculum learning, continual learning, and language models to introduce a teacher-instructor-student curriculum learning framework that trains an RL agent to follow natural language instructions. This multi-agent framework involves simultaneous learning between the teacher and student agents based on the student’s current skill level. The authors demonstrate the importance of training the student agent with multiple teacher agents. Experiments on a complex sparse reward environment validate the effectiveness of GLIDE-RL. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about teaching AI machines to understand human language and do tasks correctly. This has been a hard problem because natural language can be complicated, and it’s hard for AI agents to learn from rewards that are not always given. The researchers use new ideas in AI training to create a way for an AI agent to follow instructions it receives in natural language. They design a system where the teacher and student AI agents learn together based on how good the student is at doing tasks. This helps the student agent get better faster. The results show that this approach works well. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Continual learning * Curriculum learning * Reinforcement learning
