We present a strong baseline that surpasses the performance of previously published methods on the Habitat Challenge task of navigating to a target object in indoor environments. Our method is motivated from primary failure modes of prior state-of-the-art: poor exploration, inaccurate object identification, and agent getting trapped due to imprecise map construction. We make three contributions to mitigate these issues: (i) First, we show that existing map-based methods fail to effectively use semantic clues for exploration. We present a semantic-agnostic exploration strategy (called STUBBORN) without any learning that surprisingly outperforms prior work.(ii) We propose a strategy for integrating temporal information to improve object identification. (iii) Lastly, due to inaccurate depth observation the agent often gets trapped in small regions. We develop a multi-scale collision map for obstacle identification that mitigates this issue.
We introduce a new knot diagram invariant called the Self-Crossing Index (SCI). Using SCI, we provide bounds for unknotting two families of framed unknots. For one of these families, unknotting using framed Reidemeister moves is significantly harder than unknotting using regular Reidemeister moves.We also investigate the relation between SCI and Arnold's curve invariant St, as well as the relation with Hass and Nowik's invariant, which generalizes cowrithe. In particular, the change of SCI under Ω3 moves depends only on the forward/backward character of the move, similar to how the change of St or cowrithe depends only on the positive/negative quality of the move. Contents1. Introduction 2. Index-type description of Arnold's curve invariants 2.1. Arnold's invariants 2.2. Indices with respect to a curve 2.3. Viro's formulas for J + and J -2.4. Shumakovich's formulas for St 3. The Self-Crossing Index and bounds for unknotting framed knots 3.1. Definition and properties of SCI 3.2. Bounds for unknotting via SCI 4. Comparison with the Hass-Nowik invariant 4.1. HN and its properties 4.2. Forward/backward, positive/negative and ascending/descending Ω3 moves 5. Appendix References
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