{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/a-new-dataset-and-model-for-learning-to","title":"A new dataset and model for learning to understand navigational instructions","arxiv_id":"1805.07952","date":"2018-05-21","proceeding":null,"authors":["Ozan Arkan Can","Deniz Yuret"],"abstract":"In this paper, we present a state-of-the-art model and introduce a new\ndataset for grounded language learning. Our goal is to develop a model that can\nlearn to follow new instructions given prior instruction-perception-action\nexamples. We based our work on the SAIL dataset which consists of navigational\ninstructions and actions in a maze-like environment. The new model we propose\nachieves the best results to date on the SAIL dataset by using an improved\nperceptual component that can represent relative positions of objects. We also\nanalyze the problems with the SAIL dataset regarding its size and balance. We\nargue that performance on a small, fixed-size dataset is no longer a good\nmeasure to differentiate state-of-the-art models. We introduce SAILx, a\nsynthetic dataset generator, and perform experiments where the size and balance\nof the dataset are controlled.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07952v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.07952v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"a-new-dataset-and-model-for-learning-to","repo_url":"https://github.com/ozanarkancan/SAILx","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"grounded-language-learning","task_name":"Grounded language learning"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"sailx","name":"SailX","full_name":""}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}