{"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/mapping-navigation-instructions-to-continuous","title":"Mapping Navigation Instructions to Continuous Control Actions with Position-Visitation Prediction","arxiv_id":"1811.04179","date":"2018-11-10","proceeding":null,"authors":["Valts Blukis","Dipendra Misra","Ross A. Knepper","Yoav Artzi"],"abstract":"We propose an approach for mapping natural language instructions and raw\nobservations to continuous control of a quadcopter drone. Our model predicts\ninterpretable position-visitation distributions indicating where the agent\nshould go during execution and where it should stop, and uses the predicted\ndistributions to select the actions to execute. This two-step model\ndecomposition allows for simple and efficient training using a combination of\nsupervised learning and imitation learning. We evaluate our approach with a\nrealistic drone simulator, and demonstrate absolute task-completion accuracy\nimprovements of 16.85% over two state-of-the-art instruction-following methods.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04179v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.04179v2.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":"mapping-navigation-instructions-to-continuous","repo_url":"https://github.com/clic-lab/drif","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"continuous-control","task_name":"Continuous Control"},{"task_slug":"imitation-learning","task_name":"Imitation Learning"},{"task_slug":"instruction-following","task_name":"Instruction Following"},{"task_slug":null,"task_name":"Position"},{"task_slug":"continuous-control","task_name":"continuous-control"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1811.04179","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}