Towards Deviation-Robust Agent Navigation via Perturbation-Aware Contrastive Learning

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) asks an agent to follow a given language instruction to navigate through a real 3D environment. Despite significant advances, conventional VLN agents are trained typically under disturbance-free environments and may easily fail in real-world navigation scenarios,...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. - 1979. - 45(2023), 10 vom: 01. Okt., Seite 12535-12549
1. Verfasser: Lin, Bingqian (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Long, Yanxin, Zhu, Yi, Zhu, Fengda, Liang, Xiaodan, Ye, Qixiang, Lin, Liang
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2023
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Schlagworte:Journal Article
LEADER 01000naa a22002652 4500
001 NLM35658514X
003 DE-627
005 20231226070756.0
007 cr uuu---uuuuu
008 231226s2023 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c
024 7 |a 10.1109/TPAMI.2023.3273594  |2 doi 
028 5 2 |a pubmed24n1188.xml 
035 |a (DE-627)NLM35658514X 
035 |a (NLM)37155380 
040 |a DE-627  |b ger  |c DE-627  |e rakwb 
041 |a eng 
100 1 |a Lin, Bingqian  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
245 1 0 |a Towards Deviation-Robust Agent Navigation via Perturbation-Aware Contrastive Learning 
264 1 |c 2023 
336 |a Text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a ƒaComputermedien  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a ƒa Online-Ressource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
500 |a Date Revised 06.09.2023 
500 |a published: Print-Electronic 
500 |a Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE 
520 |a Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) asks an agent to follow a given language instruction to navigate through a real 3D environment. Despite significant advances, conventional VLN agents are trained typically under disturbance-free environments and may easily fail in real-world navigation scenarios, since they are unaware of how to deal with various possible disturbances, such as sudden obstacles or human interruptions, which widely exist and may usually cause an unexpected route deviation. In this paper, we present a model-agnostic training paradigm, called Progressive Perturbation-aware Contrastive Learning (PROPER) to enhance the generalization ability of existing VLN agents to the real world, by requiring them to learn towards deviation-robust navigation. Specifically, a simple yet effective path perturbation scheme is introduced to implement the route deviation, with which the agent is required to still navigate successfully following the original instruction. Since directly enforcing the agent to learn perturbed trajectories may lead to insufficient and inefficient training, a progressively perturbed trajectory augmentation strategy is designed, where the agent can self-adaptively learn to navigate under perturbation with the improvement of its navigation performance for each specific trajectory. For encouraging the agent to well capture the difference brought by perturbation and adapt to both perturbation-free and perturbation-based environments, a perturbation-aware contrastive learning mechanism is further developed by contrasting perturbation-free trajectory encodings and perturbation-based counterparts. Extensive experiments on the standard Room-to-Room (R2R) benchmark show that PROPER can benefit multiple state-of-the-art VLN baselines in perturbation-free scenarios. We further collect the perturbed path data to construct an introspection subset based on the R2R, called Path-Perturbed R2R (PP-R2R). The results on PP-R2R show unsatisfying robustness of popular VLN agents and the capability of PROPER in improving the navigation robustness under deviation 
650 4 |a Journal Article 
700 1 |a Long, Yanxin  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Zhu, Yi  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Zhu, Fengda  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Liang, Xiaodan  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Ye, Qixiang  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Lin, Liang  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
773 0 8 |i Enthalten in  |t IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence  |d 1979  |g 45(2023), 10 vom: 01. Okt., Seite 12535-12549  |w (DE-627)NLM098212257  |x 1939-3539  |7 nnns 
773 1 8 |g volume:45  |g year:2023  |g number:10  |g day:01  |g month:10  |g pages:12535-12549 
856 4 0 |u http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2023.3273594  |3 Volltext 
912 |a GBV_USEFLAG_A 
912 |a SYSFLAG_A 
912 |a GBV_NLM 
912 |a GBV_ILN_350 
951 |a AR 
952 |d 45  |j 2023  |e 10  |b 01  |c 10  |h 12535-12549