Byron Galbraith

Stephanie Milani, Anssi Kanervisto, Karolis Ramanauskas et al. · berkeley

To facilitate research in the direction of fine-tuning foundation models from human feedback, we held the MineRL BASALT Competition on Fine-Tuning from Human Feedback at NeurIPS 2022. The BASALT challenge asks teams to compete to develop algorithms to solve tasks with hard-to-specify reward functions in Minecraft. Through this competition, we aimed to promote the development of algorithms that use human feedback as channels to learn the desired behavior. We describe the competition and provide an overview of the top solutions. We conclude by discussing the impact of the competition and future directions for improvement.

Dhairya Dalal, Byron V. Galbraith

Implementing enterprise process automation often requires significant technical expertise and engineering effort. It would be beneficial for non-technical users to be able to describe a business process in natural language and have an intelligent system generate the workflow that can be automatically executed. A building block of process automations are If-Then programs. In the consumer space, sites like IFTTT and Zapier allow users to create automations by defining If-Then programs using a graphical interface. We explore the efficacy of modeling If-Then programs as a sequence learning task. We find Seq2Seq approaches have high potential (performing strongly on the Zapier recipes) and can serve as a promising approach to more complex program synthesis challenges.