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Obtaining policies that can generalise to new environments in reinforcement learning is challenging. In this work, we demonstrate that language understanding via a reading policy learner is a promising vehicle for generalisation to new environments. We propose a grounded policy learning problem, Read to Fight Monsters (RTFM), in which the agent must jointly reason over a language goal, relevant dynamics described in a document, and environment observations. We procedurally generate environment dynamics and corresponding language descriptions of the dynamics, such that agents must read to understand new environment dynamics instead of memorising any particular information. In addition, we propose txt2π, a model that captures three-way interactions between the goal, document, and observations. On RTFM, txt2π generalises to new environments with dynamics not seen during training via reading. Furthermore, our model outperforms baselines such as FiLM and language-conditioned CNNs on RTFM. Through curriculum learning, txt2π produces policies that excel on complex RTFM tasks requiring several reasoning and coreference steps.
We show language understanding via reading is promising way to learn policies that generalise to new environments.

In this work, we focus on the problem of grounding language by training an agent
 to follow a set of natural language instructions and navigate to a target object
 in a 2D grid environment. The agent receives visual information through raw
 pixels and a natural language instruction telling what task needs to be achieved.
 Other than these two sources of information, our model does not have any prior
 information of both the visual and textual modalities and is end-to-end trainable.
 We develop an attention mechanism for multi-modal fusion of visual and textual
 modalities that allows the agent to learn to complete the navigation tasks and also
 achieve language grounding. Our experimental results show that our attention
 mechanism outperforms the existing multi-modal fusion mechanisms proposed in
 order to solve the above mentioned navigation task. We demonstrate through the
 visualization of attention weights that our model learns to correlate attributes of
 the object referred in the instruction with visual representations and also show
 that the learnt textual representations are semantically meaningful as they follow
 vector arithmetic and are also consistent enough to induce translation between instructions
 in different natural languages. We also show that our model generalizes
 effectively to unseen scenarios and exhibit zero-shot generalization capabilities.
 In order to simulate the above described challenges, we introduce a new 2D environment
 for an agent to jointly learn visual and textual modalities
Attention based architecture for language grounding via reinforcement learning in a new customizable 2D grid environment  

The quality of the features used in visual recognition is of fundamental importance for the overall system. For a long time, low-level hand-designed feature algorithms as SIFT and HOG have obtained the best results on image recognition. Visual features have recently been extracted from trained convolutional neural networks. Despite the high-quality results, one of the main drawbacks of this approach, when compared with hand-designed features, is the training time required during the learning process. In this paper, we propose a simple and fast way to train supervised convolutional models to feature extraction while still maintaining its high-quality. This methodology is evaluated on different datasets and compared with state-of-the-art approaches.

A simple fast method for extracting visual features from convolutional neural networks

