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We propose PIGLeT: a model that learns physical commonsense knowledge through interaction, and then uses this knowledge to ground language. We factorize PIGLeT into a physical dynamics model, and a separate language model. Our dynamics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Rowan Zellers , Ari Holtzman , Matthew Peters , Roozbeh Mottaghi , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Ali Farhadi , Yejin Choi

Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly improved through interaction, yet most self-evolution methods adapt either the policy or the learning environment in isolation. We identify this structural gap as \emph{Agent-Environment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yihao Hu , Zhihao Wen , Xiujin Liu , Pan Wang , Xin Zhang , Wei Wu

Pursuing human-like interaction for Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents requires understanding the GUI context and following user instructions. However, existing works typically couple these two aspects and focus more on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Huawen Shen , Chang Liu , Gengluo Li , Xinlong Wang , Yu Zhou , Can Ma , Xiangyang Ji

Whereas conventional spoken language understanding (SLU) systems map speech to text, and then text to intent, end-to-end SLU systems map speech directly to intent through a single trainable model. Achieving high accuracy with these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-26 Loren Lugosch , Mirco Ravanelli , Patrick Ignoto , Vikrant Singh Tomar , Yoshua Bengio

Machine learning models such as Transformers or LSTMs struggle with tasks that are compositional in nature such as those involving reasoning/inference. Although many datasets exist to evaluate compositional generalization, when it comes to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Santiago Ontanon , Joshua Ainslie , Vaclav Cvicek , Zachary Fisher

Understanding human instructions and accomplishing Vision-Language Navigation tasks in unknown environments is essential for robots. However, existing modular approaches heavily rely on the quality of training data and often exhibit poor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yao Wang , Zhirui Sun , Wenzheng Chi , Baozhi Jia , Wenjun Xu , Jiankun Wang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) poses significant challenges for agents to interpret natural language instructions and navigate complex 3D environments. While recent progress has been driven by large-scale pre-training and data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Tianyi Ma , Yue Zhang , Zehao Wang , Parisa Kordjamshidi

In this paper we consider the problem of robot navigation in simple maze-like environments where the robot has to rely on its onboard sensors to perform the navigation task. In particular, we are interested in solutions to this problem that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Jingwei Zhang , Jost Tobias Springenberg , Joschka Boedecker , Wolfram Burgard

Comprehending natural language instructions is a charming property for both 2D and 3D layout synthesis systems. Existing methods implicitly model object joint distributions and express object relations, hindering generation's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Chenguo Lin , Yuchen Lin , Panwang Pan , Xuanyang Zhang , Yadong Mu

Modern robotics applications that involve human-robot interaction require robots to be able to communicate with humans seamlessly and effectively. Natural language provides a flexible and efficient medium through which robots can exchange…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Andrea F. Daniele , Mohit Bansal , Matthew R. Walter

Existing work on vision and language navigation mainly relies on navigation-related losses to establish the connection between vision and language modalities, neglecting aspects of helping the navigation agent build a deep understanding of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Yue Zhang , Quan Guo , Parisa Kordjamshidi

The increasing demand for autonomous machines in construction environments necessitates the development of robust object detection algorithms that can perform effectively across various weather and environmental conditions. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Maghsood Salimi , Mohammad Loni , Sara Afshar , Antonio Cicchetti , Marjan Sirjani

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely on accurate trajectory prediction for safe navigation in diverse traffic environments, yet existing models struggle with long-tail scenarios-rare but safety-critical events characterized by abrupt maneuvers,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Bin Rao , Haicheng Liao , Chengyue Wang , Keqiang Li , Zhenning Li , Hai Yang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to ground language instructions to its own movement within a visual environment. While state-of-the-art methods leverage the reasoning capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for…

We propose a novel approach for training large language models (LLMs) to adhere to objectives defined within a latent embedding space. Our method leverages reinforcement learning (RL), treating a pre-trained LLM as an environment. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Guy Tennenholtz , Yinlam Chow , Chih-Wei Hsu , Lior Shani , Ethan Liang , Craig Boutilier

Recent research in language-guided visual navigation has demonstrated a significant demand for the diversity of traversable environments and the quantity of supervision for training generalizable agents. To tackle the common data scarcity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Zun Wang , Jialu Li , Yicong Hong , Yi Wang , Qi Wu , Mohit Bansal , Stephen Gould , Hao Tan , Yu Qiao

The ability of large language models (LLMs) to follow user instructions is central to their reliability, safety, and usefulness. While prior studies assess instruction adherence in the model's main responses, we argue that it is also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Yongchan Kwon , Shang Zhu , Federico Bianchi , Kaitlyn Zhou , James Zou

Robots and other intelligent systems navigating in complex dynamic environments should predict future actions and intentions of surrounding agents to reach their goals efficiently and avoid collisions. The dynamics of those agents strongly…

This survey provides an overview of the evolution of visually grounded models of spoken language over the last 20 years. Such models are inspired by the observation that when children pick up a language, they rely on a wide range of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Grzegorz Chrupała

In recent years, the field of indoor navigation has witnessed groundbreaking advancements through the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs). Traditional navigation approaches relying on pre-built maps or reinforcement learning exhibit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Anlong Zhang , Jianmin Ji