The authors studied object-goal navigation, in which an agent must locate an instance of a named category in an unfamiliar indoor environment.
Explicit goal grounding helps navigation agents stop at objects
A two-model system that separately identifies visible goals and estimates their distance achieved state-of-the-art success across six simulated navigation benchmarks.
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Xinhao Liu · Yunsheng Tian · Yuheng Qiu · Pieter Abbeel · Xi Chen · Guanya Shi · +1 more
Amazon FAR · New York University · UC Berkeley · Carnegie Mellon University
Research Digest··3 min read
Liu and colleagues diagnose a specific weakness in vision-language navigation policies: agents frequently find the requested object but fail to recognize when they should stop.
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