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Learning to Model the World with Language

16 days ago
  • #AI
  • #Reinforcement Learning
  • #Language Understanding
  • Dynalang is an agent that learns to understand and leverage diverse language to predict future observations, world behavior, and rewards.
  • It uses a multimodal world model to predict future text and image representations, improving task performance through imagined model rollouts.
  • Dynalang can be pretrained on text or video datasets without actions or rewards, enabling it to benefit from large-scale offline data.
  • The agent outperforms state-of-the-art RL algorithms and task-specific architectures in tasks like grid worlds and photorealistic home navigation.
  • Dynalang unifies language understanding with future prediction, allowing it to handle environment descriptions, game rules, and instructions effectively.
  • It models video and text as a unified sequence, similar to human perception, improving both pretraining and RL performance.
  • The agent can also generate language grounded in the environment, showcasing capabilities in embodied question answering.
  • Pretraining Dynalang on general text data enhances downstream task performance, demonstrating the versatility of its architecture.