Informing Reinforcement Learning Agents by Grounding Language to Markov Decision Processes
Keywords: Language Grounding, RLang, RL, Formal Language, LLM
TL;DR: We ground language to MDPs by translating advice to RLang programs using an LLM.
Abstract: While significant efforts have been made to leverage natural language to accelerate reinforcement learning, utilizing diverse forms of language efficiently remains unsolved. Existing methods focus on mapping natural language to individual elements of MDPs such as reward functions or policies, but such approaches limit the scope of language they consider to make such mappings possible. We present an approach for leveraging general language advice by translating sentences to a grounded formal language for expressing information about *every* element of an MDP and its solution including policies, plans, reward functions, and transition functions. We also introduce a new model-based reinforcement learning algorithm, RLang-Dyna-Q, capable of leveraging all such advice, and demonstrate in two sets of experiments that grounding language to every element of an MDP leads to significant performance gains.
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Primary Area: reinforcement learning
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