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Bayesian Relational Memory for Semantic Visual Navigation

10 Sep 2019ICCV 2019 10arXiv:1909.04306archive 2025-07-28

Yi Wu, Yuxin Wu, Aviv Tamar, Stuart Russell, Georgia Gkioxari, Yuandong Tian

We introduce a new memory architecture, Bayesian Relational Memory (BRM), to improve the generalization ability for semantic visual navigation agents in unseen environments, where an agent is given a semantic target to navigate towards. BRM takes the form of a probabilistic relation graph over semantic entities (e.g., room types), which allows (1) capturing the layout prior from training environments, i.e., prior knowledge, (2) estimating posterior layout at test time, i.e., memory update, and (3) efficient planning for navigation, altogether. We develop a BRM agent consisting of a BRM module for producing sub-goals and a goal-conditioned locomotion module for control. When testing in unseen environments, the BRM agent outperforms baselines that do not explicitly utilize the probabilistic relational memory structure

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