Causality-Aware Transformer Networks for Robotic Navigation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02669v2
• Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 11:34:38 GMT
• Title: Causality-Aware Transformer Networks for Robotic Navigation
• Authors: Ruoyu Wang, Yao Liu, Yuanjiang Cao, Lina Yao,
• Abstract summary: Current research in Visual Navigation reveals opportunities for improvement. Direct adoption of RNNs and Transformers often overlooks the specific differences between Embodied AI and traditional sequential data modelling. We propose Causality-Aware Transformer (CAT) Networks for Navigation, featuring a Causal Understanding Module.
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• Abstract: Current research in Visual Navigation reveals opportunities for improvement. First, the direct adoption of RNNs and Transformers often overlooks the specific differences between Embodied AI and traditional sequential data modelling, potentially limiting its performance in Embodied AI tasks. Second, the reliance on task-specific configurations, such as pre-trained modules and dataset-specific logic, compromises the generalizability of these methods. We address these constraints by initially exploring the unique differences between Navigation tasks and other sequential data tasks through the lens of Causality, presenting a causal framework to elucidate the inadequacies of conventional sequential methods for Navigation. By leveraging this causal perspective, we propose Causality-Aware Transformer (CAT) Networks for Navigation, featuring a Causal Understanding Module to enhance the models's Environmental Understanding capability. Meanwhile, our method is devoid of task-specific inductive biases and can be trained in an End-to-End manner, which enhances the method's generalizability across various contexts. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that our methodology consistently surpasses benchmark performances across a spectrum of settings, tasks and simulation environments. Extensive ablation studies reveal that the performance gains can be attributed to the Causal Understanding Module, which demonstrates effectiveness and efficiency in both Reinforcement Learning and Supervised Learning settings.

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