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Integrating Reward Maximization and Population Estimation: Sequential Decision-Making for Internal Revenue Service Audit Selection
This approach has the potential to improve audit efficacy, while maintaining policy-relevant estimates of the tax gap.
On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models
AI is undergoing a paradigm shift with the rise of models (e. g., BERT, DALL-E, GPT-3) that are trained on broad data at scale and are adaptable to a wide range of downstream tasks.
When Does Pretraining Help? Assessing Self-Supervised Learning for Law and the CaseHOLD Dataset
While a Transformer architecture (BERT) pretrained on a general corpus (Google Books and Wikipedia) improves performance, domain pretraining (using corpus of approximately 3. 5M decisions across all courts in the U. S. that is larger than BERT's) with a custom legal vocabulary exhibits the most substantial performance gains with CaseHOLD (gain of 7. 2% on F1, representing a 12% improvement on BERT) and consistent performance gains across two other legal tasks.
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An Information-Theoretic Perspective on Credit Assignment in Reinforcement Learning
How do we formalize the challenge of credit assignment in reinforcement learning?
With Little Power Comes Great Responsibility
Despite its importance to experimental design, statistical power (the probability that, given a real effect, an experiment will reject the null hypothesis) has largely been ignored by the NLP community.
Ideas for Improving the Field of Machine Learning: Summarizing Discussion from the NeurIPS 2019 Retrospectives Workshop
This report documents ideas for improving the field of machine learning, which arose from discussions at the ML Retrospectives workshop at NeurIPS 2019.
TDprop: Does Jacobi Preconditioning Help Temporal Difference Learning?
We investigate whether Jacobi preconditioning, accounting for the bootstrap term in temporal difference (TD) learning, can help boost performance of adaptive optimizers.
Toward Trustworthy AI Development: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable Claims
With the recent wave of progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has come a growing awareness of the large-scale impacts of AI systems, and recognition that existing regulations and norms in industry and academia are insufficient to ensure responsible AI development.
Computers and Society
Towards the Systematic Reporting of the Energy and Carbon Footprints of Machine Learning
Accurate reporting of energy and carbon usage is essential for understanding the potential climate impacts of machine learning research.
Separating value functions across time-scales
In settings where this bias is unacceptable - where the system must optimize for longer horizons at higher discounts - the target of the value function approximator may increase in variance leading to difficulties in learning.
Distilling Information from a Flood: A Possibility for the Use of Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review in Machine Learning Research
The current flood of information in all areas of machine learning research, from computer vision to reinforcement learning, has made it difficult to make aggregate scientific inferences.
An Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning
Deep reinforcement learning is the combination of reinforcement learning (RL) and deep learning.
The RLLChatbot: a solution to the ConvAI challenge
This article presents in detail the RLLChatbot that participated in the 2017 ConvAI challenge.
Adversarial Gain
Adversarial examples can be defined as inputs to a model which induce a mistake - where the model output is different than that of an oracle, perhaps in surprising or malicious ways.
Where Did My Optimum Go?: An Empirical Analysis of Gradient Descent Optimization in Policy Gradient Methods
We find that adaptive optimizers have a narrow window of effective learning rates, diverging in other cases, and that the effectiveness of momentum varies depending on the properties of the environment.
Reward Estimation for Variance Reduction in Deep Reinforcement Learning
However, introduction of corrupt or stochastic rewards can yield high variance in learning.
Learning Robust Dialog Policies in Noisy Environments
In this paper, we focus on learning robust dialog policies to recover from these errors.
Automatic Speech Recognition
Natural Language Understanding
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Bayesian Policy Gradients via Alpha Divergence Dropout Inference
Policy gradient methods have had great success in solving continuous control tasks, yet the stochastic nature of such problems makes deterministic value estimation difficult.
Ethical Challenges in Data-Driven Dialogue Systems
The use of dialogue systems as a medium for human-machine interaction is an increasingly prevalent paradigm.
Underwater Multi-Robot Convoying using Visual Tracking by Detection
We present a robust multi-robot convoying approach that relies on visual detection of the leading agent, thus enabling target following in unstructured 3-D environments.
Cost Adaptation for Robust Decentralized Swarm Behaviour
To allay this problem, we use a meta-learning process -- cost adaptation -- which generates the optimization objective for D-RHC to solve based on a set of human-generated priors (cost and constraint functions) and an auxiliary heuristic.
OptionGAN: Learning Joint Reward-Policy Options using Generative Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Inverse reinforcement learning offers a useful paradigm to learn the underlying reward function directly from expert demonstrations.
Deep Reinforcement Learning that Matters
In recent years, significant progress has been made in solving challenging problems across various domains using deep reinforcement learning (RL).
Benchmark Environments for Multitask Learning in Continuous Domains
As demand drives systems to generalize to various domains and problems, the study of multitask, transfer and lifelong learning has become an increasingly important pursuit.
Reproducibility of Benchmarked Deep Reinforcement Learning Tasks for Continuous Control
We investigate and discuss: the significance of hyper-parameters in policy gradients for continuous control, general variance in the algorithms, and reproducibility of reported results.
An Analysis of Parallelized Motion Masking Using Dual-Mode Single Gaussian Models
Successful systems have used Gaussian Models to discern background from foreground in an image (motion from static imagery).
A Survey of Available Corpora for Building Data-Driven Dialogue Systems
During the past decade, several areas of speech and language understanding have witnessed substantial breakthroughs from the use of data-driven models.
