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  • MS - Group Advisement

    Thu, Aug 15, 2019 @ 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM

    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

    Workshops & Infosessions


    This group advisement session is for graduate students in the Computer Science / Informatics Master's programs. All incoming Fall 2019 students are encouraged to attend at least one session. One-on-one time with advisors will be available toward the end of the group advisement session. Appointments are not required to attend this session.

    Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101

    Audiences: Graduate

    Contact: Art Perez

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  • NL Seminar-COMPREHENSIBLE CONTEXT-DRIVEN TEXT GAME PLAYING

    Thu, Aug 15, 2019 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Information Sciences Institute

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Xusen Yin, USC/ISI

    Talk Title: COMPREHENSIBLE CONTEXT-DRIVEN TEXT GAME PLAYING

    Series: Natural Language Seminar

    Abstract: In order to train a computer agent to play a text based computer game, we must represent each hidden state of the game. A Long Short Term Memory LSTM model running over observed texts is a common choice for state construction. However, a normal Deep Q learning Network DQN for such an agent requires millions of steps of training or more to converge. As such, an LSTM based DQN can take tens of days to finish the training process. Though we can use a Convolutional Neural Network CNN as a text encoder to construct states much faster than the LSTM, doing so without an understanding of the syntactic context of the words being analyzed can slow convergence. In this paper, we use a fast CNN to encode position and syntax-oriented structures extracted from observed texts as states. We additionally augment the reward signal in a universal and practical manner. Together, we show that our improvements can not only speed up the process by one order of magnitude but also learn a superior agent.



    Biography: Xusen Yin is a 3rd-year Ph.D. student in USC ISI, advised by Dr. Jonathan May.

    Host: Xusen Yin and Jon May

    More Info: https://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar

    Webcast: https://bluejeans.com/s/qXurz

    Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - CR #689

    WebCast Link: https://bluejeans.com/s/qXurz

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Peter Zamar

    Event Link: https://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar

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  • MS - Group Advisement Session

    Thu, Aug 15, 2019 @ 02:00 PM - 03:40 PM

    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

    Workshops & Infosessions


    This group advisement session is for graduate students in the Computer Science / Informatics Master's programs. All incoming Fall 2019 students are encouraged to attend at least one session. One-on-one time with advisors will be available toward the end of the group advisement session. Appointments are not required to attend this session.

    Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101

    Audiences: Graduate

    Contact: Art Perez

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