In reality, it is often more efficient to ask for help than to search the entire space to find an object with an unknown location. We present a learning framework that enables an agent to actively ask for help in such embodied visual navigation tasks, where the feedback informs the agent of where...

Dogwhistles are coded expressions that simultaneously convey one meaning to a broad audience and a second one, often hateful or provocative, to a narrow in-group; they are deployed to evade both political repercussions and algorithmic content moderation. For example, in the sentence 'we need to end...

Despite remarkable advancements in few-shot generalization in natural language processing, the majority of models are developed and evaluated primarily in English. To enable fair model comparisons, we, therefore, propose a new benchmark, called BUFFET, which unifies 16 diverse tasks across 57...