Policy Learning with a Language Bottleneck

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Hauptverfasser: Srivastava, Megha, Colas, Cedric, Sadigh, Dorsa, Andreas, Jacob
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author Srivastava, Megha
Colas, Cedric
Sadigh, Dorsa
Andreas, Jacob
author_facet Srivastava, Megha
Colas, Cedric
Sadigh, Dorsa
Andreas, Jacob
contents Modern AI systems such as self-driving cars and game-playing agents achieve superhuman performance, but often lack human-like generalization, interpretability, and inter-operability with human users. Inspired by the rich interactions between language and decision-making in humans, we introduce Policy Learning with a Language Bottleneck (PLLB), a framework enabling AI agents to generate linguistic rules that capture the high-level strategies underlying rewarding behaviors. PLLB alternates between a *rule generation* step guided by language models, and an *update* step where agents learn new policies guided by rules, even when a rule is insufficient to describe an entire complex policy. Across five diverse tasks, including a two-player signaling game, maze navigation, image reconstruction, and robot grasp planning, we show that PLLB agents are not only able to learn more interpretable and generalizable behaviors, but can also share the learned rules with human users, enabling more effective human-AI coordination. We provide source code for our experiments at https://github.com/meghabyte/bottleneck .
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spellingShingle Policy Learning with a Language Bottleneck
Srivastava, Megha
Colas, Cedric
Sadigh, Dorsa
Andreas, Jacob
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Modern AI systems such as self-driving cars and game-playing agents achieve superhuman performance, but often lack human-like generalization, interpretability, and inter-operability with human users. Inspired by the rich interactions between language and decision-making in humans, we introduce Policy Learning with a Language Bottleneck (PLLB), a framework enabling AI agents to generate linguistic rules that capture the high-level strategies underlying rewarding behaviors. PLLB alternates between a *rule generation* step guided by language models, and an *update* step where agents learn new policies guided by rules, even when a rule is insufficient to describe an entire complex policy. Across five diverse tasks, including a two-player signaling game, maze navigation, image reconstruction, and robot grasp planning, we show that PLLB agents are not only able to learn more interpretable and generalizable behaviors, but can also share the learned rules with human users, enabling more effective human-AI coordination. We provide source code for our experiments at https://github.com/meghabyte/bottleneck .
title Policy Learning with a Language Bottleneck
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04118