Language-Guided World Models: A Model-Based Approach to AI Control

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Auteurs principaux: Zhang, Alex, Nguyen, Khanh, Tuyls, Jens, Lin, Albert, Narasimhan, Karthik
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author Zhang, Alex
Nguyen, Khanh
Tuyls, Jens
Lin, Albert
Narasimhan, Karthik
author_facet Zhang, Alex
Nguyen, Khanh
Tuyls, Jens
Lin, Albert
Narasimhan, Karthik
contents This paper introduces the concept of Language-Guided World Models (LWMs) -- probabilistic models that can simulate environments by reading texts. Agents equipped with these models provide humans with more extensive and efficient control, allowing them to simultaneously alter agent behaviors in multiple tasks via natural verbal communication. In this work, we take initial steps in developing robust LWMs that can generalize to compositionally novel language descriptions. We design a challenging world modeling benchmark based on the game of MESSENGER (Hanjie et al., 2021), featuring evaluation settings that require varying degrees of compositional generalization. Our experiments reveal the lack of generalizability of the state-of-the-art Transformer model, as it offers marginal improvements in simulation quality over a no-text baseline. We devise a more robust model by fusing the Transformer with the EMMA attention mechanism (Hanjie et al., 2021). Our model substantially outperforms the Transformer and approaches the performance of a model with an oracle semantic parsing and grounding capability. To demonstrate the practicality of this model in improving AI safety and transparency, we simulate a scenario in which the model enables an agent to present plans to a human before execution, and to revise plans based on their language feedback.
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spellingShingle Language-Guided World Models: A Model-Based Approach to AI Control
Zhang, Alex
Nguyen, Khanh
Tuyls, Jens
Lin, Albert
Narasimhan, Karthik
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
This paper introduces the concept of Language-Guided World Models (LWMs) -- probabilistic models that can simulate environments by reading texts. Agents equipped with these models provide humans with more extensive and efficient control, allowing them to simultaneously alter agent behaviors in multiple tasks via natural verbal communication. In this work, we take initial steps in developing robust LWMs that can generalize to compositionally novel language descriptions. We design a challenging world modeling benchmark based on the game of MESSENGER (Hanjie et al., 2021), featuring evaluation settings that require varying degrees of compositional generalization. Our experiments reveal the lack of generalizability of the state-of-the-art Transformer model, as it offers marginal improvements in simulation quality over a no-text baseline. We devise a more robust model by fusing the Transformer with the EMMA attention mechanism (Hanjie et al., 2021). Our model substantially outperforms the Transformer and approaches the performance of a model with an oracle semantic parsing and grounding capability. To demonstrate the practicality of this model in improving AI safety and transparency, we simulate a scenario in which the model enables an agent to present plans to a human before execution, and to revise plans based on their language feedback.
title Language-Guided World Models: A Model-Based Approach to AI Control
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01695