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Household environments are visually diverse. Embodied agents performing Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) in the wild must be able to handle this diversity, while also following arbitrary language instructions. Recently, Vision-Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Vishnu Sashank Dorbala , Gunnar Sigurdsson , Robinson Piramuthu , Jesse Thomason , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

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

The goal of this paper is to use multi-task learning to efficiently scale slot filling models for natural language understanding to handle multiple target tasks or domains. The key to scalability is reducing the amount of training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Aaron Jaech , Larry Heck , Mari Ostendorf

The aspiration of the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task has long been to develop an embodied agent with robust adaptability, capable of seamlessly transferring its navigation capabilities across various tasks. Despite remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Siqi Zhang , Yanyuan Qiao , Qunbo Wang , Longteng Guo , Zhihua Wei , Jing Liu

Reinforcement learning systems rely on environment interfaces that specify observations and reward functions, yet constructing these interfaces for new tasks often requires substantial manual effort. While recent work has automated reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Akshat Singh Jaswal , Ashish Baghel , Paras Chopra

Vision Language Navigation (VLN) typically requires agents to navigate to specified objects or remote regions in unknown scenes by obeying linguistic commands. Such tasks require organizing historical visual observations for linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Bolei Chen , Jiaxu Kang , Yifei Wang , Ping Zhong , Qi Wu , Jianxin Wang

Access to credible sustainability information in the fashion industry remains limited and challenging to interpret, despite growing public and regulatory demands for transparency. General-purpose language models often lack domain-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Daphne Theodorakopoulos , Elisabeth Eberling , Miriam Bodenheimer , Sabine Loos , Frederic Stahl

Our goal is to create an interactive natural language interface that efficiently and reliably learns from users to complete tasks in simulated robotics settings. We introduce a neural semantic parsing system that learns new high-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Siddharth Karamcheti , Dorsa Sadigh , Percy Liang

Incorporating explicit domain knowledge into neural-based task-oriented dialogue systems is an effective way to reduce the need of large sets of annotated dialogues. In this paper, we investigate how the use of explicit domain knowledge of…

The recent growth in the popularity and success of deep learning models on NLP classification tasks has accompanied the need for generating some form of natural language explanation of the predicted labels. Such generated natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Sawan Kumar , Partha Talukdar

Behavioral skills or policies for autonomous agents are conventionally learned from reward functions, via reinforcement learning, or from demonstrations, via imitation learning. However, both modes of task specification have their…

A long-term goal of AI research is to build intelligent agents that can communicate with humans in natural language, perceive the environment, and perform real-world tasks. Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a fundamental and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jing Gu , Eliana Stefani , Qi Wu , Jesse Thomason , Xin Eric Wang

As Large Language Models increasingly automate complex, long-horizon tasks such as \emph{vibe coding}, a supervision gap has emerged. While models excel at execution, users often struggle to guide them effectively due to insufficient domain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Enyu Zhou , Zhiheng Xi , Long Ma , Zhihao Zhang , Shihan Dou , Zhikai Lei , Guoteng Wang , Rui Zheng , Hang Yan , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

Vision-language navigation (VLN) is the task of entailing an agent to carry out navigational instructions inside photo-realistic environments. One of the key challenges in VLN is how to conduct a robust navigation by mitigating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Hanqing Wang , Wenguan Wang , Tianmin Shu , Wei Liang , Jianbing Shen

Labeling neural network submodules with human-legible descriptions is useful for many downstream tasks: such descriptions can surface failures, guide interventions, and perhaps even explain important model behaviors. To date, most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Sarah Schwettmann , Tamar Rott Shaham , Joanna Materzynska , Neil Chowdhury , Shuang Li , Jacob Andreas , David Bau , Antonio Torralba

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is essential for managing building data across the entire lifecycle, supporting tasks from design to maintenance. Natural Language Interface (NLI) systems are increasingly explored as user-friendly tools…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Han Gao , Timo Hartmann , Botao Zhong , Kai Lia , Hanbin Luo

When a human communicates with a machine using natural language on the web and online, how can it understand the human's intention and semantic context of their talk? This is an important AI task as it enables the machine to construct a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Soyeon Caren Han , Siqu Long , Henry Weld , Josiah Poon

A core challenge in AI-guided autonomy is enabling agents to navigate realistically and effectively in previously unseen environments based on natural language commands. We propose UAV-VLN, a novel end-to-end Vision-Language Navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Pranav Saxena , Nishant Raghuvanshi , Neena Goveas

This interactive paper aims to provide an intuitive understanding of the self-calibrating interface paradigm. Under this paradigm, you can choose how to use an interface which can adapt to your preferences on the fly. We introduce a PIN…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jonathan Grizou