A promising approach for teaching artificial agents to use natural language involves using human-in-the-loop training. However, recent work suggests that current machine learning methods are too data inefficient to be trained in this way from scratch. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between two categories of learning signals with the ultimate goal of improving sample efficiency: imitating human language data via supervised learning, and maximizing reward in a simulated multi-agent environment via self-play (as done in emergent communication), and introduce the term supervised self-play (S2P) for algorithms using both of these signals. We find that first training agents via supervised learning on human data followed by self-play outperforms the converse, suggesting that it is not beneficial to emerge languages from scratch. We then empirically investigate various S2P schedules that begin with supervised learning in two environments: a Lewis signaling game with symbolic inputs, and an image-based referential game with natural language descriptions. Lastly, we introduce population based approaches to S2P, which further improves the performance over single-agent methods.

The problem of prediction with expert advice [ Cesa-Bianchi and Lugosi, 2006 ] is a by now standard model of online learning. Traditionally studied for outcom es taking values in a vector space, less seems to be known when the outcome space is a more general metr ic space. This paper partly addresses the problem by focusing on the case of NPC spaces, i .e., geodesic metric spaces with non-positive curvature in the sense of Alexandrov. The class of NPC spaces includes many metric spaces of partic ular interest in the data sciences. Apart from Hilbert spaces, interesting examples are hyperb olic spaces [ Nickel and Kiela, 2017 ], the space of real symmetric positive-definite matrices with Log -Euclidean [ Arsigny et al., 2007 ] or Log-Cholesky [ Lin, 2019 ] Riemannian metrics and more generally all complete and sim ply connected Riemannian manifolds with non-positive sectional curvatu re.

Most decision tree induction algorithms are based on a greedy top-down recursive partitioning strategy for tree growth. In this paper, we propose several methods for induction of decision trees and their ensembles based on evolutionary algorithms. The main difference of our approach is using real-valued vector representation of decision tree that allows to use a large number of different optimization algorithms, as well as optimize the whole tree or ensemble for avoiding local optima. Differential evolution and evolution strategies were chosen as optimization algorithms, as they have good results in reinforcement learning problems. We test the predictive performance of this methods using several public UCI data sets, and the proposed methods show better quality than classical methods.

Maintaining a population of solutions has been shown to increase exploration in reinforcement learning, typically attributed to the greater diversity of behaviors considered. One such class of methods, novelty search, considers further boosting diversity across agents via a multi-objective optimization formulation. Despite the intuitive appeal, these mechanisms have several shortcomings. First, they make use of mean field updates, which induce cycling behaviors. Second, they often rely on handcrafted behavior characterizations, which require domain knowledge. Furthermore, boosting diversity often has a detrimental impact on optimizing already fruitful behaviors for rewards. Setting the relative importance of novelty- versus reward-factor is usually hardcoded or requires tedious tuning/annealing. In this paper, we introduce a novel measure of population-wide diversity, leveraging ideas from Determinantal Point Processes. We combine this in a principled fashion with the reward function to adapt to the degree of diversity during training, borrowing ideas from online learning. Combined with task-agnostic behavioral embeddings, we show this approach outperforms previous methods for multi-objective optimization, as well as vanilla algorithms solely optimizing for rewards.

Recent years have witnessed an abundance of new publications and approaches on meta-learning. This community-wide enthusiasm has sparked great insights but has also created a plethora of seemingly different frameworks, which can be hard to compare and evaluate. In this paper, we aim to provide a principled, unifying framework by revisiting and strengthening the connection between meta-learning and traditional supervised learning. By treating pairs of task-specific data sets and target models as (feature, label) samples, we can reduce many meta-learning algorithms to instances of supervised learning. This view not only unifies meta-learning into an intuitive and practical framework but also allows us to transfer insights from supervised learning directly to improve meta-learning. For example, we obtain a better understanding of generalization properties, and we can readily transfer well-understood techniques, such as model ensemble, pre-training, joint training, data augmentation, and even nearest neighbor based methods. We provide an intuitive analogy of these methods in the context of meta-learning and show that they give rise to significant improvements in model performance on few-shot learning.

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