Enhancing Text-based Reinforcement Learning Agents with Commonsense Knowledge [article]

Keerthiram Murugesan, Mattia Atzeni, Pushkar Shukla, Mrinmaya Sachan, Pavan Kapanipathi, Kartik Talamadupula
2020 arXiv   pre-print
In this paper, we consider the recent trend of evaluating progress on reinforcement learning technology by using text-based environments and games as evaluation environments. This reliance on text brings advances in natural language processing into the ambit of these agents, with a recurring thread being the use of external knowledge to mimic and better human-level performance. We present one such instantiation of agents that use commonsense knowledge from ConceptNet to show promising performance on two text-based environments.
arXiv:2005.00811v1 fatcat:4c2i7k72gjduxczadwyefdon3m