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Towards Solving Text-based Games by Producing Adaptive Action Spaces

3 Dec 2018arXiv:1812.00855archive 2025-07-28

Ruo Yu Tao, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Xingdi Yuan, Layla El Asri

To solve a text-based game, an agent needs to formulate valid text commands for a given context and find the ones that lead to success. Recent attempts at solving text-based games with deep reinforcement learning have focused on the latter, i.e., learning to act optimally when valid actions are known in advance. In this work, we propose to tackle the first task and train a model that generates the set of all valid commands for a given context. We try three generative models on a dataset generated with Textworld. The best model can generate valid commands which were unseen at training and achieve high F₁ score on the test set.

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Deep Reinforcement LearningReinforcement LearningReinforcement Learning (RL)reinforcement-learningtext-based games

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