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Vision-and-Language Navigation wayfinding agents can be enhanced by exploiting automatically generated navigation instructions. However, existing instruction generators have not been comprehensively evaluated, and the automatic evaluation…

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We propose a framework that learns to execute natural language instructions in an environment consisting of goal-reaching tasks that share components of their task descriptions. Our approach leverages the compositionality of both value…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Vanya Cohen , Geraud Nangue Tasse , Nakul Gopalan , Steven James , Matthew Gombolay , Benjamin Rosman

Interaction and navigation defined by natural language instructions in dynamic environments pose significant challenges for neural agents. This paper focuses on addressing two challenges: handling long sequence of subtasks, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Alexander Pashevich , Cordelia Schmid , Chen Sun

Embodied AI has been recently gaining attention as it aims to foster the development of autonomous and intelligent agents. In this paper, we devise a novel embodied setting in which an agent needs to explore a previously unknown environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Roberto Bigazzi , Federico Landi , Marcella Cornia , Silvia Cascianelli , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Reactive synthesis is the task of automatically deriving a correct implementation from a specification. It is a promising technique for the development of verified programs and hardware. Despite recent advances in terms of algorithms and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Bernd Finkbeiner , Gideon Geier , Noemi Passing

Finding an object of a specific class in an unseen environment remains an unsolved navigation problem. Hence, we propose a hierarchical learning-based method for object navigation. The top-level is capable of high-level planning, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Matthias Hutsebaut-Buysse , Kevin Mets , Tom De Schepper , Steven Latré

Recent advances in large multimodal models (LMMs) have enabled instruction-based image editing, allowing users to modify visual content via natural language descriptions. However, existing approaches often struggle with high-level semantic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Minheng Ni , Yutao Fan , Zhengyuan Yang , Yeli Shen , Yuxiang Wei , Yaowen Zhang , Lijuan Wang , Lei Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo

The rapid advancement of generative AI has democratized access to powerful tools such as Text-to-Image models. However, to generate high-quality images, users must still craft detailed prompts specifying scene, style, and context-often…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Dawei Xiang , Wenyan Xu , Kexin Chu , Tianqi Ding , Zixu Shen , Yiming Zeng , Jianchang Su , Wei Zhang

The academic field of learning instruction-guided visual navigation can be generally categorized into high-level category-specific search and low-level language-guided navigation, depending on the granularity of language instruction, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Gengze Zhou , Yicong Hong , Zun Wang , Chongyang Zhao , Mohit Bansal , Qi Wu

The objective of this work is to manipulate visual timelines (e.g. a video) through natural language instructions, making complex timeline editing tasks accessible to non-expert or potentially even disabled users. We call this task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Alejandro Pardo , Jui-Hsien Wang , Bernard Ghanem , Josef Sivic , Bryan Russell , Fabian Caba Heilbron

Autonomous navigation in unknown environments requires multi-scale spatial understanding that captures geometric details, topological connectivity, and global structure to support high-level decision making under partial observability.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Kuankuan Sima , Longbin Tang , Zhenyu Yang , Haozhe Ma , Lin Zhao

While existing text-to-speech (TTS) models exhibit high expressiveness, fine-grained control over composite instructions remains challenging due to the structural mismatch between discrete textual intents and continuous acoustic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Bin Kang , Shaoguo Wen , Yang Fan , Shunlong Wu , Junjie Wang , Yulin Li , Junzhi Zhao , Junle Wang , Zhuotao Tian

Empowering models to dynamically accomplish tasks specified through natural language instructions represents a promising path toward more capable and general artificial intelligence. In this work, we introduce InstructSeq, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Rongyao Fang , Shilin Yan , Zhaoyang Huang , Jingqiu Zhou , Hao Tian , Jifeng Dai , Hongsheng Li

Current Text-to-audio (TTA) models mainly use coarse text descriptions as inputs to generate audio, which hinders models from generating audio with fine-grained control of content and style. Some studies try to improve the granularity by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Yuanyuan Wang , Hangting Chen , Dongchao Yang , Zhiyong Wu , Xixin Wu

Many variability management techniques rely on sophisticated language extension or tools to support it. While this can provide dedicated syntax and operational mechanism but it struggling practical adaptation for the cost of adapting new…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Hiun Kim

We introduce INSTRUCTOR, a new method for computing text embeddings given task instructions: every text input is embedded together with instructions explaining the use case (e.g., task and domain descriptions). Unlike encoders from prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Hongjin Su , Weijia Shi , Jungo Kasai , Yizhong Wang , Yushi Hu , Mari Ostendorf , Wen-tau Yih , Noah A. Smith , Luke Zettlemoyer , Tao Yu

Image compositing is a method used to generate realistic yet fake imagery by inserting contents from one image to another. Previous work in compositing has focused on improving appearance compatibility of a user selected foreground segment…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Fuwen Tan , Crispin Bernier , Benjamin Cohen , Vicente Ordonez , Connelly Barnes

Navigating complex urban environments using natural language instructions poses significant challenges for embodied agents, including noisy language instructions, ambiguous spatial references, diverse landmarks, and dynamic street scenes.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yanghong Mei , Yirong Yang , Longteng Guo , Qunbo Wang , Ming-Ming Yu , Xingjian He , Wenjun Wu , Jing Liu

We propose a novel method to conceptually decompose an existing annotation into separate levels, allowing the analysis of inter-annotators disagreement in each level separately. We suggest two distinct strategies in order to actualize this…

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Previous Vision-Language-Action models face critical limitations in navigation: scarce, diverse data from labor-intensive collection and static representations that fail to capture temporal dynamics and physical laws. We propose NavDreamer,…

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