@inproceedings{sharma-etal-2017-speeding,
    title = "Speeding up Reinforcement Learning-based Information Extraction Training using Asynchronous Methods",
    author = "Sharma, Aditya  and
      Parekh, Zarana  and
      Talukdar, Partha",
    editor = "Palmer, Martha  and
      Hwa, Rebecca  and
      Riedel, Sebastian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = sep,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Copenhagen, Denmark",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/D17-1281/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/D17-1281",
    pages = "2658--2663",
    abstract = "RLIE-DQN is a recently proposed Reinforcement Learning-based Information Extraction (IE) technique which is able to incorporate external evidence during the extraction process. RLIE-DQN trains a single agent sequentially, training on one instance at a time. This results in significant training slowdown which is undesirable. We leverage recent advances in parallel RL training using asynchronous methods and propose RLIE-A3C. RLIE-A3C trains multiple agents in parallel and is able to achieve upto 6x training speedup over RLIE-DQN, while suffering no loss in average accuracy."
}