2023 AI2-THOR Rearrangement Challenge

Welcome to the 2023 AI2-THOR Rearrangement Challenge hosted at the
CVPR’22 Embodied-AI Workshop.
The goal of this challenge is to build a model/agent that move objects in a room
to restore them to a given initial configuration. Please follow the instructions below
to get started.

If you have any questions please file an issue
or post in the #rearrangement-challenge channel on our Ask PRIOR slack.

Contents

🔥🆕🔥 What’s New in the 2023 Challenge?

Our 2023 AI2-THOR Rearrangement Challenge has several upgrades distinguishing it from the 2022 version:

1. New AI2-THOR version. We’ve upgraded the version of AI2-THOR we’re using from 5.0.0, this brings
   performance improvements and bug fixes.
2. New dataset. We’ve released a new rearrangement dataset to match the new AI2-THOR version. This new dataset
   has a more uniform balance of easy/hard episodes and requires interaction with more objects.
3. Improved object-opening logic. In previous versions of the rearrangement challenge there was no downside
   to attempting to open all objects that the agent came across as the open action would only execute when
   opening an object that was in a state different from that during walkthrough phase. In this version of the
   challenge, all openable objects have open and closed states that are toggled when agent issues the open action upon
   them.
4. Misc. improvements. We’ve fixed a number of minor bugs and performance issues from the 2022 challenge improving
   consistency.

⌛🥇 2022 Challenge Winners and Current SoTA

The winners of the 2022 AI2-THOR Rearrangement Challenge and current state-of-the-art include:

1-Phase Challenge Winner (Current SoTA)

Submission name: ProcTHOR + Fine-Tuning

% Fixed Strict (Test): 24.47%

Paper link: ProcTHOR: Large-Scale Embodied AI Using Procedural Generation (@NeurIPS’22)

Team: Matt Deitke, Eli VanderBilt, Alvaro Herrasti, Luca Weihs, Jordi Salvador, Kiana Ehsani, Winson Han, Eric Kolve, Ali Farhadi, Aniruddha Kembhavi, and Roozbeh Mottaghi

2-Phase Challenge Winner

Submission name: MaSS: 3D Mapping and Semantic Search

% Fixed Strict (Test): 16.56%

Paper link: A Simple Approach for Visual Room Rearrangement: 3D Mapping and Semantic Search (@ICLR’23)

Codebase: https://github.com/brandontrabucco/mass

Team: Brandon Trabucco, Gunnar A Sigurdsson, Robinson Piramuthu, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, and Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Current 2-Phase SoTA

Submission name: TIDEE + open everything

% Fixed Strict (Test): 28.94%

Paper link: TIDEE: Tidying Up Novel Rooms using Visuo-Semantic Commonsense Priors (@EECV’22)

Codebase: https://github.com/Gabesarch/TIDEE

Team: Gabriel Sarch, Zhaoyuan Fang, Adam W. Harley, Paul Schydlo, Michael Tarr, Saurabh Gupta, and Katerina Fragkiadaki

💻 Installation

To begin, clone this repository locally

git clone git@github.com:allenai/ai2thor-rearrangement.git

You can now either install the requirements into a local python environment or use the provided Dockerfile.

Local installation

First create a python virtual environment and then install requirements by running

pip install -r requirements.txt

Or, if you prefer using conda, you can create a thor-rearrange environment with our requirements by running

export MY_ENV_NAME=thor-rearrange
export CONDA_BASE="$(dirname $(dirname "${CONDA_EXE}"))"
export PIP_SRC="${CONDA_BASE}/envs/${MY_ENV_NAME}/pipsrc"
conda env create --file environment.yml --name $MY_ENV_NAME

Docker installation

This assumes some familiarity with Docker. If you are new to Docker, we recommend reading through
this tutorial.

You first need to make sure you have nvidia-docker installed on your machine. If you don’t, you can install it (assuming
you are running on Ubuntu) by running:

# Installing nvidia-container-toolkit
curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-container-runtime/gpgkey | \
  sudo apt-key add -
distribution=$(. /etc/os-release;echo $ID$VERSION_ID)
curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-container-runtime/$distribution/nvidia-container-runtime.list | \
  sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-container-runtime.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y nvidia-container-toolkit-base nvidia-container-toolkit
sudo systemctl restart docker

Now cd into the ai2thor-rearrangement repository and then build the docker image by running

DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build -t rearrangement:latest .

to create a docker image with name rearrangement. Note that the Dockerfile will automatically
copy the contents of the ai2thor-rearrangement repository into the docker image. You can, of course, modify
the Dockerfile to copy in additional files/directories as needed or mount the ai2thor-rearrangement repository
directory on the docker container (see the Docker documentation for
more information) so that any changes you make to your local copy of the repository are reflected in the docker
container (and vice versa).

Now to start the docker container, you can run:

docker run \
    --gpus all \
    --device /dev/dri \
    --mount type=bind,source=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json,target=/etc/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json \
    --mount type=bind,source=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_layers.json,target=/etc/vulkan/implicit_layer.d/nvidia_layers.json \
    --mount type=bind,source=/usr/share/glvnd/egl_vendor.d/10_nvidia.json,target=/usr/share/glvnd/egl_vendor.d/10_nvidia.json \
    --shm-size 50G \
    -it rearrangement:latest

Please set the shared memory size (--shm-size) to something that your machine can support. Setting this too small can cause
problems in multi-GPU training. Note that, importantly, we are mounting the nvidia_icd.json, nvidia_layers.json, and 10_nvidia.json files
from the host machine into the docker container. This is necessary to ensure that the docker container can use
the Vulkan API (which is used by AI2-THOR). The above assumes that your machine has a working Vulkan installation
(modern versions of Ubuntu come with this pre-installed) and that the above files are present at the

/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json
/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_layers.json
/usr/share/glvnd/egl_vendor.d/10_nvidia.json

paths. On some machines these files may be located at different paths. If you are
running into issues with the above, you can try checking to see if the above files exist instead at the paths:

/etc/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json,target
/etc/vulkan/implicit_layer.d/nvidia_layers.json
/usr/share/glvnd/egl_vendor.d/10_nvidia.json

or use the find command to search for these files:

find / -name nvidia_icd.json
find / -name nvidia_layers.json
find / -name 10_nvidia.json

Once you find the correct paths, you’ll need to then modify the above docker run command accordingly.

Now that you’ve successfully run the docker container, you can run the following to test that everything is working:

conda activate rearrange
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$PWD
allenact -o rearrange_out -b . baseline_configs/one_phase/one_phase_rgb_resnet_dagger.py

You should see output that looks like the following

[05/23 15:47:34 INFO:] Running with args Namespace(experiment='baseline_configs/one_phase/one_phase_rgb_resnet_dagger.py', eval=False, config_kwargs=None, extra_tag='', output_dir='rearrange_out', save_dir_fmt=<SaveDirFormat.FLAT: 'FLAT'>, seed=None, experiment_base='.', checkpoint=None, infer_output_dir=False, approx_ckpt_step_interval=None, restart_pipeline=False, deterministic_cudnn=False, max_sampler_processes_per_worker=None, deterministic_agents=False, log_level='info', disable_tensorboard=False, disable_config_saving=False, collect_valid_results=False, valid_on_initial_weights=False, test_expert=False, distributed_ip_and_port='127.0.0.1:0', machine_id=0, callbacks='', enable_crash_recovery=False, test_date=None, approx_ckpt_steps_count=None, skip_checkpoints=0)    [main.py: 452]
[05/23 15:47:35 INFO:] Config files saved to rearrange_out/used_configs/OnePhaseRGBResNetDagger_40proc/2023-05-23_15-47-35    [runner.py: 865]
[05/23 15:47:35 INFO:] Using 8 train workers on devices (device(type='cuda', index=0), device(type='cuda', index=1), device(type='cuda', index=2), device(type='cuda', index=3), device(type='cuda', index=4), device(type='cuda', index=5), device(type='cuda', index=6), device(type='cuda', index=7))    [runner.py: 274]
[05/23 15:47:35 INFO:] Engines on machine_id == 0 using port 53495 and seed 137964697    [runner.py: 444]
[05/23 15:47:35 INFO:] Using local worker ids [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] (total 8 workers in machine 0)    [runner.py: 283]
[05/23 15:47:36 INFO:] Started 8 train processes    [runner.py: 545]
[05/23 15:47:36 INFO:] Using 1 valid workers on devices (device(type='cuda', index=7),)    [runner.py: 274]
[05/23 15:47:36 INFO:] Started 1 valid processes    [runner.py: 572]
[05/23 15:47:39 INFO:] train 1 args {'experiment_name': 'OnePhaseRGBResNetDagger_40proc', 'config': <baseline_configs.one_phase.one_phase_rgb_resnet_dagger.OnePhaseRGBResNetDaggerExperimentConfig object at 0x7efd483fac70>, 'callback_sensors': [], 'results_queue': <multiprocessing.queues.Queue object at 0x7efd483facd0>, 'checkpoints_queue': <multiprocessing.queues.Queue object at 0x7efd268d5be0>, 'checkpoints_dir': 'rearrange_out/checkpoints/OnePhaseRGBResNetDagger_40proc/2023-05-23_15-47-35', 'seed': 137964697, 'deterministic_cudnn': False, 'mp_ctx': <multiprocessing.context.ForkServerContext object at 0x7efd268dd430>, 'num_workers': 8, 'device': device(type='cuda', index=1), 'distributed_ip': '127.0.0.1', 'distributed_port': 53495, 'max_sampler_processes_per_worker': None, 'save_ckpt_after_every_pipeline_stage': True, 'initial_model_state_dict': '[SUPPRESSED]', 'first_local_worker_id': 0, 'distributed_preemption_threshold': 0.7, 'try_restart_after_task_error': False, 'mode': 'train', 'worker_id': 1[runner.py: 373]
(...)
[05/23 15:53:14 INFO:] TRAIN: 22295 rollout steps ({'onpolicy': 22295}) total_loss 3.17 global_batch_size 2.48e+03 lr 0.0003 rollout_epochs 3 rollout_num_mini_batch 1 worker_batch_size 312 unshuffle/change_energy 2.49 unshuffle/end_energy 0.153 unshuffle/energy_prop 0.058 unshuffle/ep_length 34.8 unshuffle/num_broken 0 unshuffle/num_changed 2.88 unshuffle/num_fixed 2.78 unshuffle/num_initially_misplaced 2.94 unshuffle/num_misplaced 0.166 unshuffle/num_newly_misplaced 0 unshuffle/prop_fixed 0.944 unshuffle/prop_fixed_strict 0.944 unshuffle/prop_misplaced 0.0557 unshuffle/reward 2.26 unshuffle/start_energy 2.56 unshuffle/success 0.861 teacher_ratio/enforced 1 teacher_ratio/sampled 1 imitation_loss/expert_cross_entropy 3.17 elapsed_time 338s    [runner.py: 1089]
[05/23 15:56:07 INFO:] TRAIN: 44475 rollout steps ({'onpolicy': 44475}) total_loss 2.48 global_batch_size 2.47e+03 lr 0.0003 rollout_epochs 3 rollout_num_mini_batch 1 worker_batch_size 311 unshuffle/change_energy 2.48 unshuffle/end_energy 0.183 unshuffle/energy_prop 0.0617 unshuffle/ep_length 44.8 unshuffle/num_broken 0 unshuffle/num_changed 2.88 unshuffle/num_fixed 2.79 unshuffle/num_initially_misplaced 2.99 unshuffle/num_misplaced 0.197 unshuffle/num_newly_misplaced 0 unshuffle/prop_fixed 0.94 unshuffle/prop_fixed_strict 0.94 unshuffle/prop_misplaced 0.0605 unshuffle/reward 2.3 unshuffle/start_energy 2.6 unshuffle/success 0.865 teacher_ratio/enforced 1 teacher_ratio/sampled 1 imitation_loss/expert_cross_entropy 2.48 elapsed_time 173s approx_fps 128 onpolicy/approx_eps 128    [runner.py: 1089]

Note that it may take several minute before the lines with TRAIN: start appearing, this is because these only
print after many thousands of steps have been taken. This can be annoying when debugging, if you’d like to print these
logs more frequently you should change the metric_accumulate_interval argument
to the TrainingPipeline in the baseline_configs/rearrange_base.py file to be some small integer value (e.g. metric_accumulate_interval=1)

Python 3.6+ 🐍. Each of the actions supports typing within Python.

AI2-THOR 5.0.0 🧞. To ensure reproducible results, we’re restricting all users to use the exact same version of AI2-THOR.

AllenAct 🏋💪. We ues the AllenAct reinforcement learning framework
for generating baseline models, baseline training pipelines, and for several of their helpful abstractions/utilities.

📝 Rearrangement Task Description

Overview 🤖. Our rearrangement task involves moving and modifying (i.e. opening/closing) randomly placed objects within a room
to obtain a goal configuration. There are 2 phases:

1. Walkthrough 👀. The agent walks around the room and observes the objects in their ideal goal state.
2. Unshuffle 🏋. After the walkthrough phase, we randomly change between 1 to 5 objects in the room.
   The agent’s goal is to identify which objects have changed and reset those objects to their state from the
   walkthrough phase. Changes to an object’s state may include changes to its position, orientation, or openness.

🛤️ Challenge Tracks and Datasets

☝️+✌️ The 1- and 2-Phase Tracks

As in prior years, for this 2023 challenge we have two distinct tracks:

• 1-Phase Track (Easier). In this track we merge both of the above phases into a single phase. At every step
  the agent obtains observations from the walkthrough (goal) state as well as the shuffled state. This allows the
  agent to directly compare aligned images from the two world-states and thus makes it much easier to determine
  if an object is, or is not, in its goal pose.
• 2-Phase Track (Harder). In this track, the walkthrough and unshuffle phases occur sequentially and so, once
  in the unshuffle phase, the agent no longer has any access to the walkthrough state except through any memory
  it has saved.

📊 Datasets

For this challenge we have three dataset splits: "train", "val", and "test".
The train split uses floor plans 1-20, 200-220, 300-320, and 400-420 within AI2-THOR,
the "val" split uses floor plans 21-25, 221-225, 321-325, and 421-425, and finally the "test" split uses
scenes 26-30, 226-230, 326-330, and 426-430. These dataset splits are stored as the compressed pickle-serialized files
data/*.pkl.gz. While you are freely (and encouraged) to enhance the training set as you see fit, you should
never train your agent within any of the test scenes.

For evaluation, your model will need to be evaluated on each of the above splits and the results
submitted to our leaderboard link (see section below). As the "train" set is
are quite large, we do not expect you to evaluate on their entirety. Instead we select ~1000 datapoints
from each of these sets for use in evaluation. For convenience, we provide the data/combined.pkl.gz
file which contains the "train", "val", and "test" datapoints that should
be used for evaluation.

🛤️ Submitting to the Leaderboard

We are tracking challenge participant entries using the AI2 Leaderboard. The team
with the best submission made to either of the below leaderboards by June 12th
(midnight, anywhere on earth) will be announced at the
CVPR’21 Embodied-AI Workshop and invited to produce a video describing their approach.
Note that a winning submission must be materially different from the baseline models we provide and from
submissions made to prior years’ challenges.

In particular, our 2023 leaderboard links can be found at

• 2023 1-phase leaderboard and
• 2023 2-phase leaderboard.

Our older (2021/2022) leaderboards are also available indefinitely
(2021 1-phase,
2021 2-phase,
2022 1-phase,
2022 2-phase).
Note that our 2022/2021 challenges uses different datasets and older versions of AI2-THOR and so results will not be
directly comparable.

Submissions should include your agent’s trajectories for all tasks contained within the combined.pkl.gz
dataset, this “combined” dataset includes tasks for the train, train_unseen, validation, and test sets. For an example
as to how to iterate through all the datapoints in this dataset and save the resulting
metrics in our expected submission format see here.

A (full) example the expected submission format for the 1-phase task can be found here
and, for the 2-phase task, can be found here.
Note that this submission format is a gzip’ed json file where the json file has the form

{
  "UNIQUE_ID_OF_TASK_0": YOUR_AGENTS_METRICS_AND_TRAJECTORY_FOR_TASK_0,
  "UNIQUE_ID_OF_TASK_1": YOUR_AGENTS_METRICS_AND_TRAJECTORY_FOR_TASK_1,
  ...
}

these metrics and unique IDs can be easily obtained when iterating over the dataset (see the above example).

Alternatively: if you run inference on the combined dataset using AllenAct (see below
for more details) then you can simply (1) gzip the metrics*.json file saved when running inference, (2) rename
this file submission.json.gz, and (3) submit this file to the leaderboard directly.

🖼️ Allowed Observations

In both of these tracks, agents should make decisions based off of egocentric sensor readings. The
types of sensors allowed/provided for this challenge include:

1. RGB images - having shape 224x224x3 and an FOV of 90 degrees.
2. Depth maps - having shape 224x224 and an FOV of 90 degrees.
3. Perfect egomotion - We allow for agents to know precisely how far (and in which direction)
   they have moved as well as how many degrees they have rotated.

While you are absolutely free to use any sensor information you would like during training (e.g.
pretraining your CNN using semantic segmentations from AI2-THOR or using a scene graph to compute
expert actions for imitation learning) such additional sensor information should not
be used at inference time.

🏃 Allowed Actions

A total of 82 actions are available to our agents, these include:

Navigation

• Move[Ahead/Left/Right/Back] - Results in the agent moving 0.25m in the specified direction if doing so would
  not result in the agent colliding with something.

• Rotate[Right/Left] - Results in the agent rotating 90 degrees clockwise (if Right) or counterclockwise (if Left).
  This action may fail if the agent is holding an object and rotating would cause the object to collide.

• Look[Up/Down] - Results in the agent raising or lowering its camera angle by 30 degrees (up to a max of 60 degrees below horizontal and 30 degrees above horizontal).

Object Interaction

• Pickup[OBJECT_TYPE] - Where OBJECT_TYPE is one of the 62 pickupable object types, see constants.py.
  This action results in the agent picking up a visible object of type OBJECT_TYPE if: (a) the agent is not already
  holding an object, (b) the agent is close enough to the object (within 1.5m), and picking up the object would not
  result in it colliding with objects in front of the agent. If there are multiple objects of type OBJECT_TYPE
  then the object closest to the agent is chosen.

• Open[OBJECT_TYPE] - Where OBJECT_TYPE is one of the 10 opennable object types that are not also
  pickupable, see constants.py. If an object of the given type is visible (and within 1.5m of the agent), its openness will be toggled between
  two possible values. If multiple objects of the same type are visible, we decide which object will be toggled using priorty value that is randomly
  generated for each object at the start of the episode. Note that objects whose goal state at the start of the unshuffle
  phase are different from those in the walkthrough phase are always assigned higher priority than other objects so that
  it is always possible to bring them into their goal state.

• PlaceObject - Results in the agent dropping its held object. If the held object’s goal state is visible and within
  1.5m of the agent, it is placed into that goal state. Otherwise, a heuristic is used to place the
  object on a nearby surface if possible.

Done action

• Done - Results in the walkthrough or unshuffle phase immediately terminating.

🍽️ Setting up Rearrangement

✨ Learning by example

See the example.py file for an example of how you can instantiate the 1- and 2-phase
variants of our rearrangement task.

🌎 The Rearrange THOR Environment class

The rearrange.environment.RearrangeTHOREnvironment class provides a wrapper around the AI2-THOR environment
and is designed to

1. Make it easy to set up a AI2-THOR scene in a particular state ready for rearrangement.
2. Provides utilities to make it easy to evaluate (see e.g. the poses and compare_poses methods)
   how close the current state of the environment is to the goal state.
3. Provide an API with which the agent may interact with the environment.

🏒 The Rearrange Task Sampler class

You’ll notice that the above RearrangeTHOREnvironment is not explicitly instantiated by the example.py
script and, instead, we create rearrange.tasks.RearrangeTaskSampler objects using the
TwoPhaseRGBBaseExperimentConfig.make_sampler_fn and OnePhaseRGBBaseExperimentConfig.make_sampler_fn.
This is because the RearrangeTHOREnvironment is very flexible and doesn’t know anything about
training/validation/test datasets, the types of actions we want our agent to be restricted to use,
or precisely which types of sensor observations we want to give our agents (e.g. RGB images, depth maps, etc).
All of these extra details are managed by the RearrangeTaskSampler which iteratively creates new
tasks for our agent to complete when calling the next_task method. During training, these new tasks can be sampled
indefinitely while, during validation or testing, the tasks will only be sampled until the validation/test datasets
are exhausted. This sampling is best understood by example so please go over the example.py file.

🚶🔀 The Walkthrough Task and Unshuffle Task classes

As described above, the RearrangeTaskSampler samples tasks for our agent to complete, these tasks correspond
to instantiations of the rearrange.tasks.WalkthroughTask and rearrange.tasks.UnshuffleTask classes. For the 2-phase
challenge track, the RearrangeTaskSampler will first sample a new WalkthroughTask after which it will sample a
corresponding UnshuffleTask where the agent must return the objects to their poses at the start of the
WalkthroughTask.

🗺️ Object Poses

Accessing object poses 🧘. The poses of all objects in the environment can be accessed
using the RearrangeTHOREnvironment.poses property, i.e.

unshuffle_start_poses, walkthrough_start_poses, current_poses = env.poses # where env is an RearrangeTHOREnvironment instance

Reading an object’s pose 📖. Here, unshuffle_start_poses, walkthrough_start_poses, and current_poses
evaluate to a list of dictionaries and are defined as:

• unshuffle_start_poses stores a list of object poses if the agent were to do nothing to
  the env during the unshuffling phase.
• walkthrough_start_poses stores a list of object poses that the agent sees during the walkthrough phase.
• current_poses stores a list of object poses in the current state of the environment (i.e. possibly after the
  unshuffle agent makes all its changes to the env during the unshuffling phase).

Each dictionary contains the object’s pose in a form similar to:

{
    "type": "Candle",
    "position": {
        "x": -0.3012670874595642,
        "y": 0.7431036233901978,
        "z": -2.040205240249634
    },
    "rotation": {
        "x": 2.958569288253784,
        "y": 0.027708930894732475,
        "z": 0.6745457053184509
    },
    "openness": None,
    "pickupable": True,
    "broken": False,
    "objectId": "Candle|-00.30|+00.74|-02.04",
    "name": "Candle_977f7f43",
    "parentReceptacles": [
        "Bathtub|-01.28|+00.28|-02.53"
    ],
    "bounding_box": [
        [-0.27043721079826355, 0.6975823640823364, -2.0129783153533936],
        [-0.3310248851776123, 0.696869969367981, -2.012985944747925],
        [-0.3310534358024597, 0.6999208927154541, -2.072017192840576],
        [-0.27046576142311096, 0.7006332278251648, -2.072009563446045],
        [-0.272365003824234, 0.8614493608474731, -2.0045082569122314],
        [-0.3329526484012604, 0.8607369661331177, -2.0045158863067627],
        [-0.3329811990261078, 0.8637878894805908, -2.063547134399414],
        [-0.27239352464675903, 0.8645002245903015, -2.063539505004883]
    ]
}

Matching objects across poses 🤝. Across unshuffle_start_poses, walkthrough_start_poses, and current_poses,
the ith entry in each list will always correspond to the same object across each pose list.
So, unshuffle_start_poses[5] will refer to the same object as walkthrough_start_poses[5] and current_poses[5].
Most scenes have around 70 objects, among which, 10 to 20 are pickupable by the agent.

Pose keys 🔑.

• openness specifies the [0:1] percentage that an object is opened. For objects where the openness value does not
  fit (e.g., Bowl, Spoon), the openness value is None.
• bounding_box is only given for moveable objects, where the set of moveable objects may consist of couches or chairs,
  that are not necessarily pickupable. For pickupable objects, the bounding_box is aligned to the object’s relative
  axes. For moveable objects that are non-pickupable, the object is aligned to the global axes.
• broken states if the object broke from the agent’s actions during the unshuffling phase. The initial pose or
  goal pose for each object will never be broken. But, if the agent decides to pick up an object, and drop it on a hard
  surface, it’s possible that the object can break.

🏆 Evaluation

To evaluate the quality of a rearrangement agent we compute several metrics measuring how well the agent
has managed to move objects so that their final poses are (approximately) equal to their goal poses.

📏 When are poses (approximately) equal?

Recall that we represent the pose of an object as a combination of its:

1. Openness 📖. - A value in [0,1] which measures how far the object has been opened.
2. Position 📍, Rotation 🙃, and bounding box 📦 - The 3D position, rotation, and bounding box of each object.
3. Broken - A boolean indicating if the object has been broken (all goal object poses are unbroken).

The openness between its goal state and predicted state is off by less than 20 percent. The openness check is only applied to objects that can open.
The object’s 3D bounding box from its goal pose and the predicted pose must have an IoU over 0.5. The positional check is only relevant to objects that can move.

To measure if two object poses are approximately equal we use the following criterion:

1. ❌ If any object pose is broken.
2. ❌ If the object is opennable but not pickupable (e.g. a cabinet) and the the openness values
   between the two poses differ by more than 0.2.
3. ❌ The two 3D bounding boxes of pickupable objects have an IoU under 0.5.
4. ✔️ None of the above criteria are met so the poses are not broken, are close in openness values, and have
   sufficiently high IoU.

💯 Computing metrics

Suppose that task is an instance of an UnshuffleTask which your agent has taken
actions until reaching a terminal state (e.g. either the agent has taken the maximum number of steps or it
has taken the "done" action). Then metrics regarding the agent’s performance can be computed by calling
the task.metrics() function. This will return a dictionary of the form

{
    "task_info": {
        "scene": "FloorPlan420",
        "index": 7,
        "stage": "train"
    },
    "ep_length": 176,
    "unshuffle/ep_length": 7,
    "unshuffle/reward": 0.5058389582634852,
    "unshuffle/start_energy": 0.5058389582634852,
    "unshuffle/end_energy": 0.0,
    "unshuffle/prop_fixed": 1.0,
    "unshuffle/prop_fixed_strict": 1.0,
    "unshuffle/num_misplaced": 0,
    "unshuffle/num_newly_misplaced": 0,
    "unshuffle/num_initially_misplaced": 1,
    "unshuffle/num_fixed": 1,
    "unshuffle/num_broken": 0,
    "unshuffle/change_energy": 0.5058464936498058,
    "unshuffle/num_changed": 1,
    "unshuffle/prop_misplaced": 0.0,
    "unshuffle/energy_prop": 0.0,
    "unshuffle/success": 0.0,
    "walkthrough/ep_length": 169,
    "walkthrough/reward": 1.82,
    "walkthrough/num_explored_xz": 17,
    "walkthrough/num_explored_xzr": 46,
    "walkthrough/prop_visited_xz": 0.5151515151515151,
    "walkthrough/prop_visited_xzr": 0.3484848484848485,
    "walkthrough/num_obj_seen": 11,
    "walkthrough/prop_obj_seen": 0.9166666666666666
}

Of the above metrics, the most important (those used for comparing models) are

• Success rate ("unshuffle/success") - This is the most unforgiving of our metrics and equals 1 if all
  object poses are in their goal states after the unshuffle phase.
• % Misplaced ("unshuffle/prop_misplaced") - The above sucess metric is quite strict, requiring exact
  rearrangement of all objects, and also does not additionally penalize an agent for moving objects
  that should not be moved. This metric equals the number of misplaced objects at the end of the episode divided
  by the number of misplaced objects at the start of the episode. Note that this metric can be larger than 1
  if the agent, during the unshuffle stage, misplaces more objects than were originally misplaced at the start.
• % Fixed Strict ("unshuffle/prop_fixed_strict") - This metric equals 0 if, at the end of the unshuffle task,
  the agent has misplaced any new objects (i.e. it has incorrectly moved an object that started in its correct
  position). Otherwise, if it has not misplaced new objects, then this equals
  (# objects which started in the wrong pose but are now in the correct pose) / (# objects which started in
  an incorrect pose), i.e. the proportion of objects who had their pose fixed.
• % Energy Remaining ("unshuffle/energy_prop") - The above metrics do not give any partial credit if,
  for example, the agent moves an object across a room and towards its goal pose but fails to place it so that
  has a sufficiently high IOU with the goal. To allow for partial credit, we define an energy function
  D that monotonically decreases to 0 as two poses get closer together (see code for full details) and which equals
  zero if two poses are approximately equal. This metric is then defined as the amount of energy remaining at the end
  of the unshuffle episode divided by the total energy at the start of the unshuffle episode,
  i.e. equals (sum of energy between all goal/current object poses at end of the unshuffle phase) /
  (sum of energy between all goal/current object poses at the start of the unshuffle phase).

🏋 Training Baseline Models with AllenAct

We use the AllenAct framework for training our baseline rearrangement models,
this framework is automatically installed when installing the requirements for this project.

Before running training or inference you’ll first have to add the ai2thor-rearrangement directory
to your PYTHONPATH (so that python and AllenAct knows where to for various modules).
To do this you can run the following:

cd YOUR/PATH/TO/ai2thor-rearrangement
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$PWD

Let’s say you want to train a model for the 1-phase challenge. This can be easily done by running the command

allenact -o rearrange_out -b . baseline_configs/one_phase/one_phase_rgb_resnet_dagger.py

This will train (using DAgger, a form of imitation learning) a model which uses a pretrained (with frozen
weights) ResNet18 as the visual backbone that feeds into a recurrent neural network (a GRU) before
producing action probabilities and a value estimate. Results from this training are then saved to
rearrange_out where you can find model checkpoints, tensorboard plots, and configuration files that can
be used if you, in the future, forget precisely what the details of your experiment were.

A similar model can be trained for the 2-phase challenge by running

allenact -o rearrange_out -b . baseline_configs/two_phase/two_phase_rgb_resnet_ppowalkthrough_ilunshuffle.py

💪 Pretrained Models

In the below table we provide a collection of pretrained models from:

1. Our CVPR’21 paper introducing this challenge, and
2. Our CVPR’22 paper which showed that using CLIP visual encodings can dramatically improve model performance acros embodied tasks.

We have only evaluated a subset of these models on our 2022 dataset.

These models can be downloaded at from the above links and should be placed into the pretrained_model_ckpts directory.
You can then, for example, run inference for the 1-Phase ResNet18 IL model using AllenAct by running:

export CURRENT_TIME=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S') # This is just to record when you ran this inference
allenact baseline_configs/one_phase/one_phase_rgb_resnet_dagger.py \
-c pretrained_model_ckpts/exp_OnePhaseRGBResNetDagger_40proc__stage_00__steps_000050058550.pt \
--extra_tag $CURRENT_TIME \
--eval

this will evaluate this model across all datapoints in the data/combined.pkl.gz dataset
which contains data from the train, val, and test sets so that
evaluation doesn’t have to be run on each set separately.

📄 Citation

If you use this work, please cite our CVPR’21 paper:

@InProceedings{RoomR,
  author = {Luca Weihs and Matt Deitke and Aniruddha Kembhavi and Roozbeh Mottaghi},
  title = {Visual Room Rearrangement},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  month = {June},
  year = {2021}
}