Housekeep: Tidying Virtual Households using Commonsense Reasoning

Abstract

We introduce Housekeep, a benchmark to evaluate commonsense reasoning in the home for embodied AI. In Housekeep, an embodied agent must tidy a house by rearranging misplaced objects without explicit instructions specifying which objects need to be rearranged. Instead, the agent must learn from and is evaluated against human preferences of which objects belong where in a tidy house. Specifically, we collect a dataset of where humans typically place objects in tidy and untidy houses constituting 1799 objects, 268 object categories, 585 placements, and 105 rooms. Next, we propose a modular baseline approach for Housekeep that integrates planning, exploration, and navigation. It leverages a fine-tuned large language model (LLM) trained on an internet text corpus for effective planning. We show that our baseline agent generalizes to rearranging unseen objects in unknown environments. See our paper webpage for more details: https://yashkant.github.io/housekeep/

Publication
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)

Toronto Intelligent Systems Lab Co-authors

Yash Kant
Yash Kant
PhD Student

I enjoy talking to people and building (hopefully useful) things together. :)

Igor Gilitschenski
Igor Gilitschenski
Assistant Professor