Language-guided Embodied AI benchmarks requiring an agent to navigate an environment and manipulate objects typically allow one-way communication: the human user gives a natural language command to the agent, and the agent can only follow the command passively. We present DialFRED, a dialogue-enabled embodied instruction following benchmark based on the ALFRED benchmark. DialFRED allows an agent to actively ask questions to the human user; the additional information in the user's response is used by the agent to better complete its task. We release a human-annotated dataset with 53K task-relevant questions and answers and an oracle to answer questions. To solve DialFRED, we propose a questioner-performer framework wherein the questioner is pre-trained with the human-annotated data and fine-tuned with reinforcement learning. We make DialFRED publicly available and encourage researchers to propose and evaluate their solutions to building dialog-enabled embodied agents.
@article{arxiv.2202.13330,
title = {DialFRED: Dialogue-Enabled Agents for Embodied Instruction Following},
author = {Xiaofeng Gao and Qiaozi Gao and Ran Gong and Kaixiang Lin and Govind Thattai and Gaurav S. Sukhatme},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.13330},
year = {2022}
}