Natural Language Reinforcement Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07157v2
• Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 19:59:05 GMT
• Title: Natural Language Reinforcement Learning
• Authors: Xidong Feng, Ziyu Wan, Mengyue Yang, Ziyan Wang, Girish A. Koushik, Yali Du, Ying Wen, Jun Wang
• Abstract summary: We introduce Natural Language Reinforcement Learning (NLRL), which combines RL principles with natural language representation. Specifically, NLRL redefines RL concepts like task objectives, policy, value function, Bellman equation, and policy iteration in natural language space.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown remarkable abilities in learning policies for decision-making tasks. However, RL is often hindered by issues such as low sample efficiency, lack of interpretability, and sparse supervision signals. To tackle these limitations, we take inspiration from the human learning process and introduce Natural Language Reinforcement Learning (NLRL), which innovatively combines RL principles with natural language representation. Specifically, NLRL redefines RL concepts like task objectives, policy, value function, Bellman equation, and policy iteration in natural language space. We present how NLRL can be practically implemented with the latest advancements in large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4. Initial experiments over tabular MDPs demonstrate the effectiveness, efficiency, and also interpretability of the NLRL framework.

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