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“Set it up”: Functional object arrangement with compositional generative models

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Yiqing Xu
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Jiayuan Mao
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Linfeng Li
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Yilun Du
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Tomás Lozano‐Pérez
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Leslie Pack Kaelbling
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David Hsu
DOI:10.1177/02783649251378198delete
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Abstract

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Functional object arrangement (FORM) is the task of arranging objects to fulfill a function, for example, “set up a dining table for two.” One key challenge here is that the instructions for FORM are often under-specified and do not explicitly specify the desired object goal poses. This paper presents SetItUp , a neuro-symbolic framework that learns to specify the goal poses of objects from a few training examples and a structured natural-language task specification. SetItUp uses a grounding graph , which is composed of abstract spatial relations among objects ( e.g ., left - of ), as its intermediate representation. This decomposes the FORM problem into two stages: (i) predicting this graph among objects and (ii) predicting object poses given the grounding graph. For (i), SetItUp leverages large language models (LLMs) to induce Python programs from a task specification and a few training examples. This program can be executed to generate grounding graphs in novel scenarios. For (ii), SetItUp pre-trains a collection of diffusion models to capture primitive spatial relations and online composes these models to predict object poses based on the grounding graph. We evaluated SetItUp on a dataset spanning three distinct task families: arranging tableware on a dining table, organizing items on a bookshelf, and laying out furniture in a bedroom. Experiments show that SetItUp outperforms existing models in generating functional, physically feasible, and aesthetically pleasing object arrangements.

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The International Journal of Robotics Research
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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National University of Singapore
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