MLANet: Multi-Level Attention Network with Sub-instruction for Continuous Vision-and-Language Navigation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01396v1
• Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 16:26:14 GMT
• Title: MLANet: Multi-Level Attention Network with Sub-instruction for Continuous Vision-and-Language Navigation
• Authors: Zongtao He, Liuyi Wang, Shu Li, Qingqing Yan, Chengju Liu and Qijun Chen
• Abstract summary: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to develop intelligent agents to navigate in unseen environments only through language and vision supervision. In the recently proposed continuous settings (continuous VLN), the agent must act in a free 3D space and faces tougher challenges like real-time execution, complex instruction understanding, and long action sequence prediction. For a better performance in continuous VLN, we design a multi-level instruction understanding procedure and propose a novel model, Multi-Level Attention Network (MLANet)
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• Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to develop intelligent agents to navigate in unseen environments only through language and vision supervision. In the recently proposed continuous settings (continuous VLN), the agent must act in a free 3D space and faces tougher challenges like real-time execution, complex instruction understanding, and long action sequence prediction. For a better performance in continuous VLN, we design a multi-level instruction understanding procedure and propose a novel model, Multi-Level Attention Network (MLANet). The first step of MLANet is to generate sub-instructions efficiently. We design a Fast Sub-instruction Algorithm (FSA) to segment the raw instruction into sub-instructions and generate a new sub-instruction dataset named ``FSASub". FSA is annotation-free and faster than the current method by 70 times, thus fitting the real-time requirement in continuous VLN. To solve the complex instruction understanding problem, MLANet needs a global perception of the instruction and observations. We propose a Multi-Level Attention (MLA) module to fuse vision, low-level semantics, and high-level semantics, which produce features containing a dynamic and global comprehension of the task. MLA also mitigates the adverse effects of noise words, thus ensuring a robust understanding of the instruction. To correctly predict actions in long trajectories, MLANet needs to focus on what sub-instruction is being executed every step. We propose a Peak Attention Loss (PAL) to improve the flexible and adaptive selection of the current sub-instruction. PAL benefits the navigation agent by concentrating its attention on the local information, thus helping the agent predict the most appropriate actions. We train and test MLANet in the standard benchmark. Experiment results show MLANet outperforms baselines by a significant margin.

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