Materials

• Slides
• Our lecture & seminar (russian)
• English lectures
  • Lecture by Mohammad Norouzi - cs294 video
  • Alternative lecture by Graham Neubig - CMU nn4nlp video
  • Optional lecture on conversation systems - video
• Will hopefully record our lecture in english soon!
• Self-critical sequence traning original article

Practice

As usual, go to practice_{your framework}.ipynb above and follow instructions from there. PyTorch, Tensorflow

More materials

• An awesome post explaining attention and long-term memory models.
• BLEU and CIDEr articles.
• Image captioning
  • MSCOCO captioning challenge
  • Captioning tutorial notebook
• Other articles on reinforcement learning for natural language:
  • task-oriented conversation system
  • generating dialogues
  • sequential adversarial networks (a.k.a. SeqGAN)
  • A large overview for machine translation (touching on RL, including RL failures) - arxiv
  • How not to evaluate conversation models - arxiv
• Overview of other non-games applications ("that article again") - arxiv