On Grounded Planning for Embodied Tasks with Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00465v3
• Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2023 10:04:08 GMT
• Title: On Grounded Planning for Embodied Tasks with Language Models
• Authors: Bill Yuchen Lin, Chengsong Huang, Qian Liu, Wenda Gu, Sam Sommerer, Xiang Ren
• Abstract summary: Language models (LMs) have demonstrated their capability in possessing commonsense knowledge of the physical world. It remains unclear **whether LMs have the capacity to generate grounded, executable plans for embodied tasks. This is a challenging task as LMs lack the ability to perceive the environment through vision and feedback from the physical environment.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Language models (LMs) have demonstrated their capability in possessing commonsense knowledge of the physical world, a crucial aspect of performing tasks in everyday life. However, it remains unclear **whether LMs have the capacity to generate grounded, executable plans for embodied tasks.** This is a challenging task as LMs lack the ability to perceive the environment through vision and feedback from the physical environment. In this paper, we address this important research question and present the first investigation into the topic. Our novel problem formulation, named **G-PlanET**, inputs a high-level goal and a data table about objects in a specific environment, and then outputs a step-by-step actionable plan for a robotic agent to follow. To facilitate the study, we establish an **evaluation protocol** and design a dedicated metric to assess the quality of the plans. Our experiments demonstrate that the use of tables for encoding the environment and an iterative decoding strategy can significantly enhance the LMs' ability in grounded planning. Our analysis also reveals interesting and non-trivial findings.

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