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21 papers
Selecting Decision-Relevant Concepts in Reinforcement Learning
Naveen Raman, Stephanie Milani, Fei Fang
Training interpretable concept-based policies requires practitioners to manually select which human-understandable concepts an agent should reason with when making sequential decis…
The PokeAgent Challenge: Competitive and Long-Context Learning at Scale
Seth Karten, Jake Grigsby, Tersoo Upaa +28
We present the PokeAgent Challenge, a large-scale benchmark for decision-making research built on Pokemon's multi-agent battle system and expansive role-playing game (RPG) environm…
Interpretability in Action: Exploratory Analysis of VPT, a Minecraft Agent
Karolis Jucys, George Adamopoulos, Mehrab Hamidi +7
Understanding the mechanisms behind decisions taken by large foundation models in sequential decision making tasks is critical to ensuring that such systems operate transparently a…
Unifying Interpretability and Explainability for Alzheimer's Disease Progression Prediction
Raja Farrukh Ali, Stephanie Milani, John Woods +5
Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently shown promise in predicting Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression due to its unique ability to model domain knowledge. However, it is not cl…
BEDD: The MineRL BASALT Evaluation and Demonstrations Dataset for Training and Benchmarking Agents that Solve Fuzzy Tasks
Stephanie Milani, Anssi Kanervisto, Karolis Ramanauskas +3
The MineRL BASALT competition has served to catalyze advances in learning from human feedback through four hard-to-specify tasks in Minecraft, such as create and photograph a water…
MABL: Bi-Level Latent-Variable World Model for Sample-Efficient Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Aravind Venugopal, Stephanie Milani, Fei Fang +1
Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) methods often suffer from high sample complexity, limiting their use in real-world problems where data is sparse or expensive to collect.…
Towards Solving Fuzzy Tasks with Human Feedback: A Retrospective of the MineRL BASALT 2022 Competition
Stephanie Milani, Anssi Kanervisto, Karolis Ramanauskas +27
To facilitate research in the direction of fine-tuning foundation models from human feedback, we held the MineRL BASALT Competition on Fine-Tuning from Human Feedback at NeurIPS 20…
Navigates Like Me: Understanding How People Evaluate Human-Like AI in Video Games
Stephanie Milani, Arthur Juliani, Ida Momennejad +7
We aim to understand how people assess human likeness in navigation produced by people and artificially intelligent (AI) agents in a video game. To this end, we propose a novel AI…
UniMASK: Unified Inference in Sequential Decision Problems
Micah Carroll, Orr Paradise, Jessy Lin +8
Randomly masking and predicting word tokens has been a successful approach in pre-training language models for a variety of downstream tasks. In this work, we observe that the same…
MAVIPER: Learning Decision Tree Policies for Interpretable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Stephanie Milani, Zhicheng Zhang, Nicholay Topin +4
Many recent breakthroughs in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) require the use of deep neural networks, which are challenging for human experts to interpret and understand.…
Towards Flexible Inference in Sequential Decision Problems via Bidirectional Transformers
Micah Carroll, Jessy Lin, Orr Paradise +8
Randomly masking and predicting word tokens has been a successful approach in pre-training language models for a variety of downstream tasks. In this work, we observe that the same…
MineRL Diamond 2021 Competition: Overview, Results, and Lessons Learned
Anssi Kanervisto, Stephanie Milani, Karolis Ramanauskas +19
Reinforcement learning competitions advance the field by providing appropriate scope and support to develop solutions toward a specific problem. To promote the development of more…
A Survey of Explainable Reinforcement Learning
Stephanie Milani, Nicholay Topin, Manuela Veloso +1
Explainable reinforcement learning (XRL) is an emerging subfield of explainable machine learning that has attracted considerable attention in recent years. The goal of XRL is to el…
The MineRL BASALT Competition on Learning from Human Feedback
Rohin Shah, Cody Wild, Steven H. Wang +10
The last decade has seen a significant increase of interest in deep learning research, with many public successes that have demonstrated its potential. As such, these systems are n…
Towards robust and domain agnostic reinforcement learning competitions
William Hebgen Guss, Stephanie Milani, Nicholay Topin +26
Reinforcement learning competitions have formed the basis for standard research benchmarks, galvanized advances in the state-of-the-art, and shaped the direction of the field. Desp…
Iterative Bounding MDPs: Learning Interpretable Policies via Non-Interpretable Methods
Nicholay Topin, Stephanie Milani, Fei Fang +1
Current work in explainable reinforcement learning generally produces policies in the form of a decision tree over the state space. Such policies can be used for formal safety veri…
The MineRL 2020 Competition on Sample Efficient Reinforcement Learning using Human Priors
William H. Guss, Mario Ynocente Castro, Sam Devlin +12
Although deep reinforcement learning has led to breakthroughs in many difficult domains, these successes have required an ever-increasing number of samples, affording only a shrink…
Guaranteeing Reproducibility in Deep Learning Competitions
Brandon Houghton, Stephanie Milani, Nicholay Topin +5
To encourage the development of methods with reproducible and robust training behavior, we propose a challenge paradigm where competitors are evaluated directly on the performance…
Retrospective Analysis of the 2019 MineRL Competition on Sample Efficient Reinforcement Learning
Stephanie Milani, Nicholay Topin, Brandon Houghton +5
To facilitate research in the direction of sample efficient reinforcement learning, we held the MineRL Competition on Sample Efficient Reinforcement Learning Using Human Priors at…
Planning with Abstract Learned Models While Learning Transferable Subtasks
John Winder, Stephanie Milani, Matthew Landen +5
We introduce an algorithm for model-based hierarchical reinforcement learning to acquire self-contained transition and reward models suitable for probabilistic planning at multiple…
The MineRL 2019 Competition on Sample Efficient Reinforcement Learning using Human Priors
William H. Guss, Cayden Codel, Katja Hofmann +9
Though deep reinforcement learning has led to breakthroughs in many difficult domains, these successes have required an ever-increasing number of samples. As state-of-the-art reinf…