Portrait de Salem Lahlou

Salem Lahlou

Collaborateur·rice alumni - UdeM
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e
Yoshua Bengio
Sujets de recherche
Apprentissage par renforcement
Modèles génératifs
Modèles probabilistes

Publications

GFlowNet Foundations
Yoshua Bengio
Tristan Deleu
Edward J Hu
Salem Lahlou
Mo Tiwari
Emmanuel Bengio
Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have been introduced as a method to sample a diverse set of candidates in an active learning context, w… (voir plus)ith a training objective that makes them approximately sample in proportion to a given reward function. In this paper, we show a number of additional theoretical properties of GFlowNets. They can be used to estimate joint probability distributions and the corresponding marginal distributions where some variables are unspecified and, of particular interest, can represent distributions over composite objects like sets and graphs. GFlowNets amortize the work typically done by computationally expensive MCMC methods in a single but trained generative pass. They could also be used to estimate partition functions and free energies, conditional probabilities of supersets (supergraphs) given a subset (subgraph), as well as marginal distributions over all supersets (supergraphs) of a given set (graph). We introduce variations enabling the estimation of entropy and mutual information, sampling from a Pareto frontier, connections to reward-maximizing policies, and extensions to stochastic environments, continuous actions and modular energy functions.
2021-11-17
ArXiv (prépublication)
arxiv.org
arxiv.org
GFlowNet Foundations
Yoshua Bengio
Tristan Deleu
Edward J Hu
Salem Lahlou
Mo Tiwari
Emmanuel Bengio
2021-11-17
ArXiv (prépublication)
arxiv.org
arxiv.org
GFlowNet Foundations
Yoshua Bengio
Tristan Deleu
Edward J Hu
Salem Lahlou
Mo Tiwari
Emmanuel Bengio
2021-11-17
ArXiv (prépublication)
arxiv.org
arxiv.org
GFlowNet Foundations
Yoshua Bengio
Tristan Deleu
Edward J Hu
Salem Lahlou
Mo Tiwari
Emmanuel Bengio
Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have been introduced as a method to sample a diverse set of candidates in an active learning context, w… (voir plus)ith a training objective that makes them approximately sample in proportion to a given reward function. In this paper, we show a number of additional theoretical properties of GFlowNets. They can be used to estimate joint probability distributions and the corresponding marginal distributions where some variables are unspecified and, of particular interest, can represent distributions over composite objects like sets and graphs. GFlowNets amortize the work typically done by computationally expensive MCMC methods in a single but trained generative pass. They could also be used to estimate partition functions and free energies, conditional probabilities of supersets (supergraphs) given a subset (subgraph), as well as marginal distributions over all supersets (supergraphs) of a given set (graph). We introduce variations enabling the estimation of entropy and mutual information, sampling from a Pareto frontier, connections to reward-maximizing policies, and extensions to stochastic environments, continuous actions and modular energy functions.
2021-11-17
ArXiv (prépublication)
arxiv.org
arxiv.org
GFlowNet Foundations
Yoshua Bengio
Tristan Deleu
Edward J Hu
Salem Lahlou
Mo Tiwari
Emmanuel Bengio
2021-11-17
ArXiv (prépublication)
arxiv.org
arxiv.org
Mastering Rate based Curriculum Learning
Lucas Willems
Salem Lahlou
Yoshua Bengio
2020-08-14
ArXiv (prépublication)
arxiv.org
arxiv.org
BabyAI: A Platform to Study the Sample Efficiency of Grounded Language Learning
Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert
Dzmitry Bahdanau
Salem Lahlou
Lucas Willems
Chitwan Saharia
Thien Huu Nguyen
Yoshua Bengio
Allowing humans to interactively train artificial agents to understand language instructions is desirable for both practical and scientific … (voir plus)reasons, but given the poor data efficiency of the current learning methods, this goal may require substantial research efforts. Here, we introduce the BabyAI research platform to support investigations towards including humans in the loop for grounded language learning. The BabyAI platform comprises an extensible suite of 19 levels of increasing difficulty. The levels gradually lead the agent towards acquiring a combinatorially rich synthetic language which is a proper subset of English. The platform also provides a heuristic expert agent for the purpose of simulating a human teacher. We report baseline results and estimate the amount of human involvement that would be required to train a neural network-based agent on some of the BabyAI levels. We put forward strong evidence that current deep learning methods are not yet sufficiently sample efficient when it comes to learning a language with compositional properties.
2019-01-01
ICLR.cc/2019/Conference (poster)
openreview.net
openreview.net
BabyAI: First Steps Towards Grounded Language Learning With a Human In the Loop
Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert
Dzmitry Bahdanau
Salem Lahlou
Lucas Willems
Chitwan Saharia
Thien Huu Nguyen
Yoshua Bengio
Allowing humans to interactively train artificial agents to understand language instructions is desirable for both practical and scientific … (voir plus)reasons, but given the poor data efficiency of the current learning methods, this goal may require substantial research efforts. Here, we introduce the BabyAI research platform to support investigations towards including humans in the loop for grounded language learning. The BabyAI platform comprises an extensible suite of 19 levels of increasing difficulty. The levels gradually lead the agent towards acquiring a combinatorially rich synthetic language which is a proper subset of English. The platform also provides a heuristic expert agent for the purpose of simulating a human teacher. We report baseline results and estimate the amount of human involvement that would be required to train a neural network-based agent on some of the BabyAI levels. We put forward strong evidence that current deep learning methods are not yet sufficiently sample efficient when it comes to learning a language with compositional properties.
2018-10-18
arXiv.org (prépublication)
dblp.uni-trier.de