Adversarial Reinforced Instruction Attacker for Robust Vision-Language Navigation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.11252v1
• Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 14:11:31 GMT
• Title: Adversarial Reinforced Instruction Attacker for Robust Vision-Language Navigation
• Authors: Bingqian Lin, Yi Zhu, Yanxin Long, Xiaodan Liang, Qixiang Ye, Liang Lin
• Abstract summary: Language instruction plays an essential role in the natural language grounded navigation tasks. We exploit to train a more robust navigator which is capable of dynamically extracting crucial factors from the long instruction. Specifically, we propose a Dynamic Reinforced Instruction Attacker (DR-Attacker), which learns to mislead the navigator to move to the wrong target.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Language instruction plays an essential role in the natural language grounded navigation tasks. However, navigators trained with limited human-annotated instructions may have difficulties in accurately capturing key information from the complicated instruction at different timesteps, leading to poor navigation performance. In this paper, we exploit to train a more robust navigator which is capable of dynamically extracting crucial factors from the long instruction, by using an adversarial attacking paradigm. Specifically, we propose a Dynamic Reinforced Instruction Attacker (DR-Attacker), which learns to mislead the navigator to move to the wrong target by destroying the most instructive information in instructions at different timesteps. By formulating the perturbation generation as a Markov Decision Process, DR-Attacker is optimized by the reinforcement learning algorithm to generate perturbed instructions sequentially during the navigation, according to a learnable attack score. Then, the perturbed instructions, which serve as hard samples, are used for improving the robustness of the navigator with an effective adversarial training strategy and an auxiliary self-supervised reasoning task. Experimental results on both Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) and Navigation from Dialog History (NDH) tasks show the superiority of our proposed method over state-of-the-art methods. Moreover, the visualization analysis shows the effectiveness of the proposed DR-Attacker, which can successfully attack crucial information in the instructions at different timesteps. Code is available at https://github.com/expectorlin/DR-Attacker.

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