Summary of Into the Unknown: Generating Geospatial Descriptions For New Environments, by Tzuf Paz-argaman et al.
Into the Unknown: Generating Geospatial Descriptions for New Environments
by Tzuf Paz-Argaman, John Palowitch, Sayali Kulkarni, Reut Tsarfaty, Jason Baldridge
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed Rendezvous (RVS) task requires reasoning over allocentric spatial relationships using non-sequential navigation instructions and maps. However, performance drops substantially in new environments with no training data. To address this issue, a large-scale augmentation method is proposed for generating high-quality synthetic data using readily available geospatial data. This method constructs a grounded knowledge-graph capturing entity relationships, which generates navigation instructions via context-free grammar (CFG) and a large language model (LLM). A comprehensive evaluation on RVS shows that the approach improves 100-meter accuracy by 45.83% in unseen environments. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new task called Rendezvous, where you need to follow directions to get from one place to another using maps. But when you’re trying it in a new area with no training, things get tough! To make it easier, the authors suggest creating fake data that’s similar to what you would find in real life. They use special tools like grammar and language models to generate this data. The results show that their method is much better than just using a language model alone, especially when trying it out in new places. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Knowledge graph » Language model » Large language model » Synthetic data
