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This study introduces a new reinforcement learning approach for visual navigation with multiple goals. The model improves learning efficiency and scene generalization, enabling faster convergence and better performance.

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Area of Science:

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Computer Vision

Background:

Visual navigation with multiple goals presents significant challenges for AI agents.
Adapting to diverse objectives requires sophisticated learning mechanisms.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an efficient and generalizable model-embedded actor-critic architecture for multigoal visual navigation.
To introduce novel reinforcement learning techniques to enhance cooperation and sample efficiency in multigoal tasks.

Main Methods:

Implemented an actor-critic architecture incorporating an inverse dynamics model (InvDM) and multigoal colearning (MgCl).
Introduced two self-supervised auxiliary modules: path closed-loop detection and state-target matching for improved scene generalization.

Main Results:

The proposed method demonstrated faster convergence compared to state-of-the-art approaches on the AI2-THOR platform.
The agent exhibited enhanced scene generalization capabilities.

Conclusions:

The novel InvDM and MgCl components effectively address sparse rewards and improve sample efficiency in multigoal visual navigation.
The enhanced navigation model with auxiliary tasks significantly boosts generalization performance.