arXiv:2605.06223cs.AIcs.RO2026-05

通过对比提问主动缩小候选范围,高效解决模糊用户查询的实例定位问题。

ProCompNav: Proactive Instance Navigation with Comparative Judgment for Ambiguous User Queries

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  • 采用两阶段框架:先构建候选池,再用二元对比问题逐轮排除不一致项。
  • 在CoIN-Bench上成功率达92.3%,响应长度减少40%以上。
  • 适合需要精准导航且用户不愿提供详细描述的交互式系统设计。

当初始自然语言请求无法唯一指定目标实例时,实例导航变得困难。理想智能体应主动提出最少必要问题,以区分目标与相似干扰项,而非要求用户提前提供详尽描述。现有方法常因过早终止或基于单个候选属性提问,导致无法有效区分目标。本文提出主动实例导航框架ProCompNav,包含两阶段:首先构建候选池,随后通过对比判断逐步缩小范围。每轮选取能将当前候选集分割的属性-值对,提出二元是/否问题,并一次性剔除所有不一致候选。该方法将消歧转化为全局候选集的判别性提问,每问均旨在压缩候选集合。在CoIN-Bench上,ProCompNav在最小输入下超越交互式基线,在详细描述下优于非交互基线,同时显著降低响应长度;在TextNav上达到当前最优成功率,表明对比判断对相似实例导航具有广泛适用性。代码已开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Natural-language instance navigation becomes challenging when the initial user request does not uniquely specify the target instance. A practical agent should reduce the user's burden by actively asking only the information needed to distinguish the target from similar distractors, rather than requiring a detailed description upfront. Existing approaches often fall short of this goal: they may stop at the first plausible candidate before sufficiently exploring alternatives, or, even after collecting multiple candidates, ask about the target's attributes derived from individual candidates rather than questions selected to distinguish candidates in the pool. As a result, despite the dialogue, the agent may still fail to distinguish the target from distractors, leading to premature decisions and lengthy user responses. We propose Proactive Instance Navigation with Comparative Judgment (ProCompNav), a two-stage framework that first constructs a candidate pool and then identifies the target through comparative judgment. At each round, ProCompNav extracts an attribute-value pair that splits the current pool, asks a binary yes/no question, and prunes all inconsistent candidates at once. This reframes disambiguation from open-ended target description to pool-level discriminative questioning, where each question is chosen to narrow the candidate set. On CoIN-Bench, ProCompNav improves Success Rate over interactive baselines with the same minimal input and non-interactive baselines with detailed descriptions, while substantially reducing Response Length. ProCompNav also achieves state-of-the-art Success Rate on TextNav, suggesting that comparative judgment is broadly useful for instance-level navigation among similar distractors. Code is available at https://github.com/tree-jhk/procompnav.

自然语言导航交互式问答实例定位对比判断

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