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Mobile agents that can leverage help from humans can potentially accomplish more complex tasks than they could entirely on their own. We develop "Help, Anna!" (HANNA), an interactive photo-realistic simulator in which an agent fulfills…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Khanh Nguyen , Hal Daumé

The predominant approach to Visual Question Answering (VQA) demands that the model represents within its weights all of the information required to answer any question about any image. Learning this information from any real training set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Damien Teney , Anton van den Hengel

In visual question answering (VQA) context, users often pose ambiguous questions to visual language models (VLMs) due to varying expression habits. Existing research addresses such ambiguities primarily by rephrasing questions. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Pu Jian , Donglei Yu , Wen Yang , Shuo Ren , Jiajun Zhang

We introduce Ella, an embodied social agent capable of lifelong learning within a community in a 3D open world, where agents accumulate experiences and acquire knowledge through everyday visual observations and social interactions. At the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Hongxin Zhang , Zheyuan Zhang , Zeyuan Wang , Zunzhe Zhang , Lixing Fang , Qinhong Zhou , Chuang Gan

End-to-end Transformers have demonstrated an impressive success rate for Embodied Instruction Following when the environment has been seen in training. However, they tend to struggle when deployed in an unseen environment. This lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Cheng-Fu Yang , Yen-Chun Chen , Jianwei Yang , Xiyang Dai , Lu Yuan , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Kai-Wei Chang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown remarkable progress in various multimodal tasks, yet they often struggle with complex visual reasoning that requires multi-step inference. To address this limitation, we propose MF-SQ-LLaVA, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Liu Jing , Amirul Rahman

Imitation learning allows agents to learn complex behaviors from demonstrations. However, learning a complex vision-based task may require an impractical number of demonstrations. Meta-imitation learning is a promising approach towards…

Passive visual systems typically fail to recognize objects in the amodal setting where they are heavily occluded. In contrast, humans and other embodied agents have the ability to move in the environment, and actively control the viewing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Jianwei Yang , Zhile Ren , Mingze Xu , Xinlei Chen , David Crandall , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) represent a significant frontier in embodied intelligence, aiming to bridge digital knowledge with physical-world interaction. Despite their remarkable performance, foundational VLAs are hindered by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhaoshu Yu , Bo Wang , Pengpeng Zeng , Haonan Zhang , Ji Zhang , Zheng Wang , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song , Nicu Sebe , Heng Tao Shen

Embodied agents can benefit from skills that guide object search, action execution, and state changes across diverse environments. Since embodied environments vary across layouts, object states, and other execution factors, these skills…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ruofei Ju , Xinrui Wang , Xin Ding , Yifan Yang , Hao Wu , Shiqi Jiang , Qianxi Zhang , Hao Wen , Xiangyu Li , Weijun Wang , Kun Li , Yunxin Liu , Haipeng Dai , Wei Wang , Ting Cao

We propose LCLA (Language-Conditioned Latent Alignment), a framework for vision-language navigation that learns modular perception-action interfaces by aligning sensory observations to a latent representation of an expert policy. The expert…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Nitesh Subedi , Adam Haroon , Samuel Tetteh , Prajwal Koirala , Cody Fleming , Soumik Sarkar

Embodied Everyday Task is a popular task in the embodied AI community, requiring agents to make a sequence of actions based on natural language instructions and visual observations. Traditional learning-based approaches face two challenges.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Weiye Xu , Min Wang , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

In visual semantic navigation, the robot navigates to a target object with egocentric visual observations and the class label of the target is given. It is a meaningful task inspiring a surge of relevant research. However, most of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Xinzhu Liu , Di Guo , Huaping Liu , Fuchun Sun

VLA models have shown promising potential in embodied navigation by unifying perception and planning while inheriting the strong generalization abilities of large VLMs. However, most existing VLA models rely on reactive mappings directly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Shaoan Wang , Yuanfei Luo , Xingyu Chen , Aocheng Luo , Dongyue Li , Chang Liu , Sheng Chen , Yangang Zhang , Junzhi Yu

Previous research into agent communication has shown that a pre-trained guide can speed up the learning process of an imitation learning agent. The guide achieves this by providing the agent with discrete messages in an emerged language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Benjamin Kolb , Leon Lang , Henning Bartsch , Arwin Gansekoele , Raymond Koopmanschap , Leonardo Romor , David Speck , Mathijs Mul , Elia Bruni

Enabling embodied agents to complete complex human instructions from natural language is crucial to autonomous systems in household services. Conventional methods can only accomplish human instructions in the known environment where all…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhenyu Wu , Ziwei Wang , Xiuwei Xu , Hang Yin , Yinan Liang , Angyuan Ma , Jiwen Lu , Haibin Yan

Embodied AI Agents are quickly becoming important and common tools in society. These embodied agents should be able to learn about and accomplish a wide range of user goals and preferences efficiently and robustly. Large Language Models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Rachel Ma , Jingyi Qu , Andreea Bobu , Dylan Hadfield-Menell

Autonomous navigation guided by natural language instructions in embodied environments remains a challenge for vision-language navigation (VLN) agents. Although recent advancements in learning diverse and fine-grained visual environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xuesong Zhang , Jia Li , Yunbo Xu , Zhenzhen Hu , Richang Hong

Understanding the structure of multiple related tasks allows for multi-task learning to improve the generalisation ability of one or all of them. However, it usually requires training each pairwise combination of tasks together in order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Shikun Liu , Stephen James , Andrew J. Davison , Edward Johns

To reliably navigate ever-shifting real-world environments, agents must grapple with incomplete knowledge and adapt their behavior through experience. However, current evaluations largely focus on tasks that leave no ambiguity, and do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Gilbert Yang , Yaqin Chen , Thomson Yen , Hongseok Namkoong