Mastering the Dungeon: Grounded Language Learning by Mechanical Turker Descent
Abstract
Contrary to most natural language processing research, which makes use of static datasets, humans learn language interactively, grounded in an environment. In this work we propose an interactive learning procedure called Mechanical Turker Descent (MTD) that trains agents to execute natural language commands grounded in a fantasy text adventure game. In MTD, Turkers compete to train better agents in the short term, and collaborate by sharing their agents' skills in the long term. This results in a gamified, engaging experience for the Turkers and a better quality teaching signal for the agents compared to static datasets, as the Turkers naturally adapt the training data to the agent's abilities.
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Yang et al. "Mastering the Dungeon: Grounded Language Learning by Mechanical Turker Descent." International Conference on Learning Representations, 2018.Markdown
[Yang et al. "Mastering the Dungeon: Grounded Language Learning by Mechanical Turker Descent." International Conference on Learning Representations, 2018.](https://mlanthology.org/iclr/2018/yang2018iclr-mastering/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{yang2018iclr-mastering,
title = {{Mastering the Dungeon: Grounded Language Learning by Mechanical Turker Descent}},
author = {Yang, Zhilin and Zhang, Saizheng and Urbanek, Jack and Feng, Will and Miller, Alexander and Szlam, Arthur and Kiela, Douwe and Weston, Jason},
booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations},
year = {2018},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/iclr/2018/yang2018iclr-mastering/}
}