Amazon Research Introduces Deep Reinforcement Learning For NLU Ranking Tasks

In recent years, voice-based virtual assistants such as Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa have grown popular. This has presented both potential and challenges for natural language understanding (NLU) systems. These devices’ production systems are often trained by supervised learning and rely significantly on annotated data. But, data annotation is costly and time-consuming. Furthermore, model updates using offline supervised learning can take long and miss trending requests.

In the underlying architecture of voice-based virtual assistants, the NLU model often categorizes user …

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