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In order to bring artificial agents into our lives, we will need to go beyond supervised learning on closed datasets to having the ability to continuously expand knowledge. Inspired by a student learning in a classroom, we present an agent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Kevin Shen , Amlan Kar , Sanja Fidler

Interactive reinforcement learning agents use human feedback or instruction to help them learn in complex environments. Often, this feedback comes in the form of a discrete signal that is either positive or negative. While informative, this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Tasmia Tasrin , Md Sultan Al Nahian , Habarakadage Perera , Brent Harrison

Language agents have demonstrated autonomous decision-making abilities by reasoning with foundation models. Recently, efforts have been made to train language agents for performance improvement, with multi-step reasoning and action…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zonghan Yang , Peng Li , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Yang Liu

A personalized conversational sales agent could have much commercial potential. E-commerce companies such as Amazon, eBay, JD, Alibaba etc. are piloting such kind of agents with their users. However, the research on this topic is very…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Yueming Sun , Yi Zhang

An important goal in artificial intelligence is to create agents that can both interact naturally with humans and learn from their feedback. Here we demonstrate how to use reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to improve upon…

Deep reinforcement learning agents have achieved state-of-the-art results by directly maximising cumulative reward. However, environments contain a much wider variety of possible training signals. In this paper, we introduce an agent that…

We observe a change in the way users access information, that is, the rise of conversational information access (CIA) agents. However, the automatic evaluation of these agents remains an open challenge. Moreover, the training of CIA agents…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Nolwenn Bernard

Many studies have applied reinforcement learning to train a dialog policy and show great promise these years. One common approach is to employ a user simulator to obtain a large number of simulated user experiences for reinforcement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Ryuichi Takanobu , Runze Liang , Minlie Huang

Digital human recommendation system has been developed to help customers find their favorite products and is playing an active role in various recommendation contexts. How to timely catch and learn the dynamics of the preferences of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Xiong Junwu , Xiaoyun Feng , YunZhou Shi , James Zhang , Zhongzhou Zhao , Wei Zhou

We propose novel AI-empowered chat bots for learning as conversation where a user does not read a passage but gains information and knowledge through conversation with a teacher bot. Our information-acquisition-oriented dialogue system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Pengshan Cai , Hui Wan , Fei Liu , Mo Yu , Hong Yu , Sachindra Joshi

A long-term goal of language agents is to learn and improve through their own experience, ultimately outperforming humans in complex, real-world tasks. However, training agents from experience data with reinforcement learning remains…

One of the long-term goals of artificial intelligence is to build an agent that can communicate intelligently with human in natural language. Most existing work on natural language learning relies heavily on training over a pre-collected…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Haichao Zhang , Haonan Yu , Wei Xu

Human is able to conduct 3D recognition by a limited number of haptic contacts between the target object and his/her fingers without seeing the object. This capability is defined as `haptic glance' in cognitive neuroscience. Most of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Kevin Riou , Suiyi Ling , Guillaume Gallot , Patrick Le Callet

In this work we apply deep reinforcement learning to the problems of navigating a three-dimensional environment and inferring the locations of human speaker audio sources within, in the case where the only available information is the raw…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Petros Giannakopoulos , Aggelos Pikrakis , Yannis Cotronis

The development of open benchmarking platforms could greatly accelerate the adoption of AI agents in retail. This paper presents comprehensive simulations of customer shopping behaviors for the purpose of benchmarking reinforcement learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Yu Xia , Sriram Narayanamoorthy , Zhengyuan Zhou , Joshua Mabry

Learning to navigate in complex environments with dynamic elements is an important milestone in developing AI agents. In this work we formulate the navigation question as a reinforcement learning problem and show that data efficiency and…

The objective of a reinforcement learning agent is to discover better actions through exploration. However, typical exploration techniques aim to maximize rewards, often incurring high costs in both exploration and learning processes. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Akane Tsuboya , Yu Kono , Tatsuji Takahashi

Interactive reinforcement learning has allowed speeding up the learning process in autonomous agents by including a human trainer providing extra information to the agent in real-time. Current interactive reinforcement learning research has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Adam Bignold , Francisco Cruz , Richard Dazeley , Peter Vamplew , Cameron Foale

Complex image restoration aims to recover high-quality images from inputs affected by multiple degradations such as blur, noise, rain, and compression artifacts. Recent restoration agents, powered by vision-language models and large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jianglin Lu , Yuanwei Wu , Ziyi Zhao , Hongcheng Wang , Felix Jimenez , Abrar Majeedi , Yun Fu

We are increasingly surrounded by artificially intelligent technology that takes decisions and executes actions on our behalf. This creates a pressing need for general means to communicate with, instruct and guide artificial agents, with…