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Autori principali: Zisman, Ilya, Nikulin, Alexander, Sinii, Viacheslav, Tarasov, Denis, Lyubaykin, Nikita, Polubarov, Andrei, Kiselev, Igor, Kurenkov, Vladislav
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2024
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.01958
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author Zisman, Ilya
Nikulin, Alexander
Sinii, Viacheslav
Tarasov, Denis
Lyubaykin, Nikita
Polubarov, Andrei
Kiselev, Igor
Kurenkov, Vladislav
author_facet Zisman, Ilya
Nikulin, Alexander
Sinii, Viacheslav
Tarasov, Denis
Lyubaykin, Nikita
Polubarov, Andrei
Kiselev, Igor
Kurenkov, Vladislav
contents In-context learning allows models like transformers to adapt to new tasks from a few examples without updating their weights, a desirable trait for reinforcement learning (RL). However, existing in-context RL methods, such as Algorithm Distillation (AD), demand large, carefully curated datasets and can be unstable and costly to train due to the transient nature of in-context learning abilities. In this work, we integrated the n-gram induction heads into transformers for in-context RL. By incorporating these n-gram attention patterns, we considerably reduced the amount of data required for generalization and eased the training process by making models less sensitive to hyperparameters. Our approach matches, and in some cases surpasses, the performance of AD in both grid-world and pixel-based environments, suggesting that n-gram induction heads could improve the efficiency of in-context RL.
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spellingShingle N-Gram Induction Heads for In-Context RL: Improving Stability and Reducing Data Needs
Zisman, Ilya
Nikulin, Alexander
Sinii, Viacheslav
Tarasov, Denis
Lyubaykin, Nikita
Polubarov, Andrei
Kiselev, Igor
Kurenkov, Vladislav
Machine Learning
In-context learning allows models like transformers to adapt to new tasks from a few examples without updating their weights, a desirable trait for reinforcement learning (RL). However, existing in-context RL methods, such as Algorithm Distillation (AD), demand large, carefully curated datasets and can be unstable and costly to train due to the transient nature of in-context learning abilities. In this work, we integrated the n-gram induction heads into transformers for in-context RL. By incorporating these n-gram attention patterns, we considerably reduced the amount of data required for generalization and eased the training process by making models less sensitive to hyperparameters. Our approach matches, and in some cases surpasses, the performance of AD in both grid-world and pixel-based environments, suggesting that n-gram induction heads could improve the efficiency of in-context RL.
title N-Gram Induction Heads for In-Context RL: Improving Stability and Reducing Data Needs
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.01958