Time: | July 19, 2024, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. |
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We will be hosting Prof. Yitao Liang, an assistant professor at Peking University, for a guest talk on Friday (19.07.2024). We would be honored to have you join us for this insightful presentation.
Abstract: With the emergence of large language models, the debate about whether a generalist agent will appear has resurfaced. However, GPT's emerging abilities seem difficult to reproduce in domains other than text. In this talk, we will introduce various efforts by our group and other well-known research labs to develop generalist agents in open world environments (such as Minecraft). Due to its extremely high degree of freedom, traditional multi-task data-driven methods are unsustainable (we cannot afford to train on thousands of tasks simultaneously, it is too expensive). One possible direction is to use knowledge to achieve high training efficiency and model generalization. I will focus on how to use symbolic knowledge and reasoning to accelerate machine learning efficiency, how to use large language models to leverage domain knowledge for systematically generalizable task decomposition, and how to use unsupervised learning to obtain a universal prompt-controllable generic policy learning, showing what kind of capabilities the state-of-the-art agents in Minecraft currently possess.
Yitao Liang (yitaol@pku.edu.cn) is an assistant professor and Boya Fellow at Peking University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from UCLA, advised by Prof. Guy Van den Broeck. His research interests span knowledge reasoning, machine learning and AI agents. His work has received recognition from top AI conferences; for example, the best-paper honorable mention from AAMAS 2016, the best paper from RL for Real Life workshop in ICML 2019, a best paper runner-up from the LLD workshop in NeurIPS 2017, a best paper from the TEACH workshop in ICML2023. He regularly serves as area chairs and senior area chairs in top venues e.g., NeurIPS, ICML. Recently, his group Team CraftJarvis (craftjarvis.org) is taking a neural-symbolic approach to building a generalist agents in open-world environments.
Details of the Event:
- Date: 19.07.2024
- Time: 2-3 pm
- Location: Raum UN32-1.219 SimTech and https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99717742264?pwd=poGDUVlH74luSJwofTzJd76jbKKYfM.1
We look forward to your participation in what promises to be an enlightening event.