NAACL 2021long2 citations

Semi-Supervised Policy Initialization for Playing Games with Language Hints

Tsu-Jui Fu, William Yang Wang

Abstract

Using natural language as a hint can supply an additional reward for playing sparse-reward games. Achieving a goal should involve several different hints, while the given hints are usually incomplete. Those unmentioned latent hints still rely on the sparse reward signal, and make the learning process difficult. In this paper, we propose semi-supervised initialization (SSI) that allows the agent to learn from various possible hints before training under different tasks. Experiments show that SSI not only helps to learn faster (1.2x) but also has a higher success rate (11% relative improvement) of the final policy.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{fu-wang-2021-semi,
    title = "Semi-Supervised Policy Initialization for Playing Games with Language Hints",
    author = "Fu, Tsu-Jui  and
      Wang, William Yang",
    editor = "Toutanova, Kristina  and
      Rumshisky, Anna  and
      Zettlemoyer, Luke  and
      Hakkani-Tur, Dilek  and
      Beltagy, Iz  and
      Bethard, Steven  and
      Cotterell, Ryan  and
      Chakraborty, Tanmoy  and
      Zhou, Yichao",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies",
    month = jun,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.249/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.249",
    pages = "3112--3116"
}
Semi-Supervised Policy Initialization for Playing Games with Language Hints · NAACL 2021