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Seeing the Unseen: Visual Common Sense for Semantic Placement
Datasets for image description are typically constructed by curating relevant images and asking humans to annotate the contents of the image; neither of those two steps are straightforward for objects not present in the image.
Promptable Behaviors: Personalizing Multi-Objective Rewards from Human Preferences
Customizing robotic behaviors to be aligned with diverse human preferences is an underexplored challenge in the field of embodied AI.
Holodeck: Language Guided Generation of 3D Embodied AI Environments
3D simulated environments play a critical role in Embodied AI, but their creation requires expertise and extensive manual effort, restricting their diversity and scope.
Understanding Representations Pretrained with Auxiliary Losses for Embodied Agent Planning
Surprisingly, we find that imitation learning on these exploration trajectories out-performs all other auxiliary losses even despite the exploration trajectories being dissimilar from the downstream tasks.
Imitating Shortest Paths in Simulation Enables Effective Navigation and Manipulation in the Real World
Reinforcement learning (RL) with dense rewards and imitation learning (IL) with human-generated trajectories are the most widely used approaches for training modern embodied agents.
Universal Visual Decomposer: Long-Horizon Manipulation Made Easy
Learning long-horizon manipulation tasks, however, is a long-standing challenge, and demands decomposing the overarching task into several manageable subtasks to facilitate policy learning and generalization to unseen tasks.
Moving Forward by Moving Backward: Embedding Action Impact over Action Semantics
A common assumption when training embodied agents is that the impact of taking an action is stable; for instance, executing the "move ahead" action will always move the agent forward by a fixed distance, perhaps with some small amount of actuator-induced noise.
When Learning Is Out of Reach, Reset: Generalization in Autonomous Visuomotor Reinforcement Learning
Finally, we find that our proposed approach can dramatically reduce the number of resets required for training other embodied tasks, in particular for RoboTHOR ObjectNav we obtain higher success rates than episodic approaches using 99. 97\% fewer resets.
EXCALIBUR: Encouraging and Evaluating Embodied Exploration
Humans constantly explore and learn about their environment out of curiosity, gather information, and update their models of the world.
Scene Graph Contrastive Learning for Embodied Navigation
Training effective embodied AI agents often involves expert imitation, specialized components such as maps, or leveraging additional sensors for depth and localization.
Objaverse: A Universe of Annotated 3D Objects
Massive data corpora like WebText, Wikipedia, Conceptual Captions, WebImageText, and LAION have propelled recent dramatic progress in AI.
Phone2Proc: Bringing Robust Robots Into Our Chaotic World
Training embodied agents in simulation has become mainstream for the embodied AI community.
A General Purpose Supervisory Signal for Embodied Agents
Training effective embodied AI agents often involves manual reward engineering, expert imitation, specialized components such as maps, or leveraging additional sensors for depth and localization.
Ask4Help: Learning to Leverage an Expert for Embodied Tasks
Embodied AI agents continue to become more capable every year with the advent of new models, environments, and benchmarks, but are still far away from being performant and reliable enough to be deployed in real, user-facing, applications.
Retrospectives on the Embodied AI Workshop
We present a retrospective on the state of Embodied AI research.
ProcTHOR: Large-Scale Embodied AI Using Procedural Generation
Massive datasets and high-capacity models have driven many recent advancements in computer vision and natural language understanding.
The Introspective Agent: Interdependence of Strategy, Physiology, and Sensing for Embodied Agents
While traditional embodied agents manipulate an environment to best achieve a goal, we argue for an introspective agent, which considers its own abilities in the context of its environment.
Towards Disturbance-Free Visual Mobile Manipulation
In this paper, we study the problem of training agents to complete the task of visual mobile manipulation in the ManipulaTHOR environment while avoiding unnecessary collision (disturbance) with objects.
Simple but Effective: CLIP Embeddings for Embodied AI
Contrastive language image pretraining (CLIP) encoders have been shown to be beneficial for a range of visual tasks from classification and detection to captioning and image manipulation.
Pushing it out of the Way: Interactive Visual Navigation
In this paper, we study the problem of interactive navigation where agents learn to change the environment to navigate more efficiently to their goals.
ManipulaTHOR: A Framework for Visual Object Manipulation
Object manipulation is an established research domain within the robotics community and poses several challenges including manipulator motion, grasping and long-horizon planning, particularly when dealing with oft-overlooked practical setups involving visually rich and complex scenes, manipulation using mobile agents (as opposed to tabletop manipulation), and generalization to unseen environments and objects.
GridToPix: Training Embodied Agents with Minimal Supervision
While deep reinforcement learning (RL) promises freedom from hand-labeled data, great successes, especially for Embodied AI, require significant work to create supervision via carefully shaped rewards.
Visual Room Rearrangement
We particularly focus on the task of Room Rearrangement: an agent begins by exploring a room and recording objects' initial configurations.
Learning Flexible Visual Representations via Interactive Gameplay
A growing body of research suggests that embodied gameplay, prevalent not just in human cultures but across a variety of animal species including turtles and ravens, is critical in developing the neural flexibility for creative problem solving, decision making and socialization.
AllenAct: A Framework for Embodied AI Research
The domain of Embodied AI, in which agents learn to complete tasks through interaction with their environment from egocentric observations, has experienced substantial growth with the advent of deep reinforcement learning and increased interest from the computer vision, NLP, and robotics communities.
Bridging the Imitation Gap by Adaptive Insubordination
However, we show that when the teaching agent makes decisions with access to privileged information that is unavailable to the student, this information is marginalized during imitation learning, resulting in an "imitation gap" and, potentially, poor results.
A Cordial Sync: Going Beyond Marginal Policies for Multi-Agent Embodied Tasks
Autonomous agents must learn to collaborate.
RoboTHOR: An Open Simulation-to-Real Embodied AI Platform
We argue that interactive and embodied visual AI has reached a stage of development similar to visual recognition prior to the advent of these ecosystems.
Grounded Situation Recognition
We introduce Grounded Situation Recognition (GSR), a task that requires producing structured semantic summaries of images describing: the primary activity, entities engaged in the activity with their roles (e. g. agent, tool), and bounding-box groundings of entities.
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Learning Generalizable Visual Representations via Interactive Gameplay
A growing body of research suggests that embodied gameplay, prevalent not just in human cultures but across a variety of animal species including turtles and ravens, is critical in developing the neural flexibility for creative problem solving, decision making, and socialization.
Visual Reaction: Learning to Play Catch with Your Drone
In this paper we address the problem of visual reaction: the task of interacting with dynamic environments where the changes in the environment are not necessarily caused by the agent itself.
Two Body Problem: Collaborative Visual Task Completion
Collaboration is a necessary skill to perform tasks that are beyond one agent's capabilities.
AI2-THOR: An Interactive 3D Environment for Visual AI
We introduce The House Of inteRactions (THOR), a framework for visual AI research, available at http://ai2thor. allenai. org.
Marginal likelihood and model selection for Gaussian latent tree and forest models
We clarify how in this case real log-canonical thresholds can be computed using polyhedral geometry, and we show how to apply the general theory to the Laplace integrals associated with Gaussian latent tree and forest models.
