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We are increasingly surrounded by artificially intelligent technology that takes decisions and executes actions on our behalf. This creates a pressing need for general means to communicate with, instruct and guide artificial agents, with human language the most compelling means for such communication. To achieve this in a scalable fashion, agents must be able to relate language to the world and to actions; that is, their understanding of language must be grounded and embodied. However, learning grounded language is a notoriously challenging problem in artificial intelligence research. Here we present an agent that learns to interpret language in a simulated 3D environment where it is rewarded for the successful execution of written instructions. Trained via a combination of reinforcement and unsupervised learning, and beginning with minimal prior knowledge, the agent learns to relate linguistic symbols to emergent perceptual representations of its physical surroundings and to pertinent sequences of actions. The agent's comprehension of language extends beyond its prior experience, enabling it to apply familiar language to unfamiliar situations and to interpret entirely novel instructions. Moreover, the speed with which this agent learns new words increases as its semantic knowledge grows. This facility for generalising and bootstrapping semantic knowledge indicates the potential of the present approach for reconciling ambiguous natural language with the complexity of the physical world.

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Language-Critique Imitation Learning from Suboptimal Demonstrations

cs.LG · 2026-07-01 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Language-critique imitation learning constructs natural language labels from suboptimal demos to train LC-BC and LC-DP policies via a direct language loss, with a theoretical bound on expert gap and empirical gains on navigation, manipulation, and gameplay tasks.

Medical Model Synthesis Architectures: A Case Study

cs.AI · 2026-05-10 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

MedMSA framework retrieves knowledge via language models then builds formal probabilistic models to produce uncertainty-weighted differential diagnoses from symptoms.

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  • Adapting Generalist Robot Policies with Semantic Reinforcement Learning cs.RO · 2026-06-30 · unverdicted · none · ref 77 · internal anchor

    SARL optimizes language prompt inputs to generalist vision-language-action policies through online RL to solve complex long-horizon tasks by composing existing skills.

  • Do As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances cs.RO · 2022-04-04 · accept · none · ref 53

    SayCan combines an LLM's high-level semantic knowledge with robot skill value functions to select only feasible actions, enabling completion of abstract natural-language instructions on a real mobile manipulator.

  • Language-Critique Imitation Learning from Suboptimal Demonstrations cs.LG · 2026-07-01 · unverdicted · none · ref 75 · internal anchor

    Language-critique imitation learning constructs natural language labels from suboptimal demos to train LC-BC and LC-DP policies via a direct language loss, with a theoretical bound on expert gap and empirical gains on navigation, manipulation, and gameplay tasks.

  • Medical Model Synthesis Architectures: A Case Study cs.AI · 2026-05-10 · unverdicted · none · ref 99

    MedMSA framework retrieves knowledge via language models then builds formal probabilistic models to produce uncertainty-weighted differential diagnoses from symptoms.