Ask When It Pays: Cost-Aware Open-Ended Interaction for Instance Goal Navigation 文章

arXiv:2606.03175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Instance Goal Navigation (IGN) requires an embodied agent to find a specific object instance among distractors from an underspecified natural-language description. Such ambiguity often cannot be resolved from perception and language alone, making interaction with an oracle a natural mechanism for disambiguation. Prior interactive methods allow oracle queries but treat lightweight clarification and route-level guidance alike, letting agents boost success rate through repeated high-information questions rather than by resolving the underlying ambiguity efficiently. We recast interactive IGN as a cost-sensitive uncertainty-reduction problem, where the agent should ask the question whose answer provides the largest reduction in navigation uncertainty relative to its penalty.