Continual Vision-and-Language Navigation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15049v1
• Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 09:15:36 GMT
• Title: Continual Vision-and-Language Navigation
• Authors: Seongjun Jeong, Gi-Cheon Kang, Seongho Choi, Joochan Kim, Byoung-Tak Zhang,
• Abstract summary: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) agents navigate to a destination using natural language instructions and the visual information they observe. Existing methods for training VLN agents presuppose fixed datasets, leading to a significant limitation. We present the Continual Vision-and-Language Navigation (CVLN) paradigm, designed to evaluate agents trained through a continual learning process.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) agents navigate to a destination using natural language instructions and the visual information they observe. Existing methods for training VLN agents presuppose fixed datasets, leading to a significant limitation: the introduction of new environments necessitates retraining with previously encountered environments to preserve their knowledge. This makes it difficult to train VLN agents that operate in the ever-changing real world. To address this limitation, we present the Continual Vision-and-Language Navigation (CVLN) paradigm, designed to evaluate agents trained through a continual learning process. For the training and evaluation of CVLN agents, we re-arrange existing VLN datasets to propose two datasets: CVLN-I, focused on navigation via initial-instruction interpretation, and CVLN-D, aimed at navigation through dialogue with other agents. Furthermore, we propose two novel rehearsal-based methods for CVLN, Perplexity Replay (PerpR) and Episodic Self-Replay (ESR). PerpR prioritizes replaying challenging episodes based on action perplexity, while ESR replays previously predicted action logits to preserve learned behaviors. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods on CVLN through extensive experiments.

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