gComm is a step towards developing a robust platform to foster research in grounded language acquisition in a more challenging and realistic setting. It comprises a 2-d grid environment with a set of agents (a stationary speaker and a mobile listener connected via a communication channel) exposed to a continuous array of tasks in a partially observable setting. The key to solving these tasks lies in agents developing linguistic abilities and utilizing them for efficiently exploring the environment. The speaker and listener have access to information provided in different modalities, i.e. the speaker's input is a natural language instruction that contains the target and task specifications and the listener's input is its grid-view. Each must rely on the other to complete the assigned task, however, the only way they can achieve the same, is to develop and use some form of communication. gComm provides several tools for studying different forms of communication and assessing their generalization.
翻译:GComm是朝向在更具挑战性和现实的环境中发展坚实的平台,促进有根有据的语言获取研究迈出的一步,它包括一个2层网格环境,由一组代理人(一个固定的扬声器和一个通过通信渠道连接的流动听众)在部分可观察的环境中面临一系列连续的任务,解决这些任务的关键在于培养语言能力并利用语言能力有效探索环境。发言者和听众可以获取以不同方式提供的信息,即:发言者的投入是包含目标和任务规格的自然语言教学,听众的投入是其网格视图。每个人都必须依靠对方完成所分配的任务,然而,他们唯一能够实现的就是开发和使用某种形式的通信。GComm提供几种工具,用于研究不同形式的通信并评估其普遍性。