... Computational Linguistics Learning to Win byReading Manuals in a Monte-Carlo FrameworkS.R.K. Branavan David Silver * Regina BarzilayComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence LaboratoryMassachusetts ... ap-plied. A stochastic player that does not have access to this text would have to gain this knowledge thehard way: it would repeatedly attempt this action ina myriad of states, thereby learning ... model parameters by applying non-linearregression to the observed final utilities from thesimulated roll-outs. Specifically, we adjust the pa-rameters by stochastic gradient descent, to mini-mize...
... sys-tem”) would be erroneous. The algorithm learns to interpret instructions bylearningto constructsequences of actions that assign the correct com-mands to the words.The interpretation of a document ... sampled according to the policy function parameterized by θ.Algorithm 1 shows the procedure for joint learning of these parameters. As in standard policygradient learning (Sutton et al., 2000), ... document 10Reinforcement Learning Parameters Follow-ing common practice, we encourage explorationduring learning with an -greedy strategy (Suttonand Barto, 1998), with set to 0.1. We also iden-tify...
... theirnaturalness, due to two main factors. First, thesystem underwent further development after thevoice was built, leading to the addition of a va-riety of new phrases to the system’s repertoire, aswell ... foradapting a language generator to the strengthsand weaknesses of a particular synthetic voice by training a discriminative reranker to select para-phrases that are predicted to sound natural whensynthesized. ... according to how natural it is likely to sound when synthe-sized. To our knowledge, Bulyko and Ostendorf(2002) were the first to propose allowing thechoice of wording and prosody to be jointly...
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