Alexa Arena: A User-Centric Interactive Platform for Embodied AI

Qiaozi Gao; Govind Thattai; Suhaila Shakiah; Xiaofeng Gao; Shreyas Pansare; Vasu Sharma; Gaurav S. Sukhatme; Hangjie Shi; Bofei Yang; Desheng Zhang; Lucy Hu; Karthika Arumugam; Shui Hu; Matthew Wen; Dinakar Guthy; Cadence Chung; Rohan Khanna; Osman Ipek; Leslie Ball; Kate Bland; Heather Rocker; Michael Johnston; Reza Ghanadan; Dilek Hakkani-Tur; Prem Natarajan

Alexa Arena: A User-Centric Interactive Platform for Embodied AI

Qiaozi Gao, Govind Thattai, Suhaila Shakiah, Xiaofeng Gao, Shreyas Pansare, Vasu Sharma, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Hangjie Shi, Bofei Yang, Desheng Zhang, Lucy Hu, Karthika Arumugam, Shui Hu, Matthew Wen, Dinakar Guthy, Cadence Chung, Rohan Khanna, Osman Ipek, Leslie Ball, Kate BlandHeather Rocker, Michael Johnston, Reza Ghanadan, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Prem Natarajan

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We introduce Alexa Arena, a user-centric simulation platform to facilitate research in building assistive conversational embodied agents. Alexa Arena features multiroom layouts and an abundance of interactable objects. With user-friendly graphics and control mechanisms, the platform supports the development of gamified robotic tasks readily accessible to general human users, allowing high-efficiency data collection and EAI system evaluation. Along with the platform, we introduce a dialog-enabled task completion benchmark with online human evaluations.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
Volume	36
State	Published - 2023
Externally published	Yes
Event	37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2023 - New Orleans, United States Duration: Dec 10 2023 → Dec 16 2023

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Gao, Q, Thattai, G, Shakiah, S, Gao, X, Pansare, S, Sharma, V, Sukhatme, GS, Shi, H, Yang, B, Zhang, D, Hu, L, Arumugam, K, Hu, S, Wen, M, Guthy, D, Chung, C, Khanna, R, Ipek, O, Ball, L, Bland, K, Rocker, H, Johnston, M, Ghanadan, R, Hakkani-Tur, D & Natarajan, P 2023, 'Alexa Arena: A User-Centric Interactive Platform for Embodied AI', Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol. 36.

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