Self-Monitoring Navigation Agent via Auxiliary Progress Estimation

The Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task entails an agent following navigational instruction in photo-realistic unknown environments. This challenging task demands that the agent be aware of which instruction was completed, which instruction is needed next, which way to go, and its navigation progress towards the goal. In this paper, we introduce a self-monitoring agent with two complementary components: (1) visual-textual co-grounding module to locate the instruction completed in the past, the instruction required for the next action, and the next moving direction from surrounding images and (2) progress monitor to ensure the grounded instruction correctly reflects the navigation progress. We test our self-monitoring agent on a standard benchmark and analyze our proposed approach through a series of ablation studies that elucidate the contributions of the primary components. Using our proposed method, we set the new state of the art by a significant margin (8% absolute increase in success rate on the unseen test set). Code is available at https://github.com/chihyaoma/selfmonitoring-agent .

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Vision and Language Navigation VLN Challenge Self-Monitoring Navigation Agent (no beam search; Progress Inference) success 0.48 # 115
length 18.04 # 23
error 5.67 # 28
oracle success 0.59 # 111
spl 0.35 # 108

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