Navigating New Spaces: A Better Way to Train Agents

An agent that can understand your instructions and navigate through various environments. This is what Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) aims for. However, training these agents to handle new, unseen spaces is a challenge. Why? Well, there's limited data and the environments these agents practice in aren't diverse enough. That's where EnvEdit comes in. It's a clever method that creates new environments by tweaking existing ones. These edited environments can vary in style, how objects look, and even what types of objects are present.By training on these diverse environments, agents become better at navigating new places. Tests on datasets like Room-to-Room and multi-lingual Room-Across-Room show that EnvEdit significantly improves performance. In fact, it's set a new benchmark on the test leaderboard. Plus, combining different edited environments can make the agents even more adaptable. You can check out the code and data at the provided GitHub link.