A Contextual Bandit Approach for Learning to Plan in Environments with Probabilistic Goal Configurations

Sohan Rudra,Saksham Goel,Anirban Santara,Claudio Gentile,Laurent Perron,Fei Xia,Vikas Sindhwani,Carolina Parada,Gaurav Aggarwal,Sohan Rudra,Saksham Goel,Anirban Santara,Claudio Gentile,Laurent Perron,Fei Xia,Vikas Sindhwani,Carolina Parada,Gaurav Aggarwal

Object-goal navigation (Object-nav) entails searching, recognizing and navigating to a target object. Object-nav has been extensively studied by the Embodied-AI community, but most solutions are often restricted to considering static objects (e.g., television, fridge, etc.), We propose a modular framework for object-nav that is able to efficiently search indoor environments for not just static obj...