Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation for Situated Action Generation: A Case Study on Minecraft (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | In the Minecraft Collaborative Building Task, two players collaborate to build a building using 3D blocks. |
| Approach: | They propose to use large language models to model the Builder's sequence of actions in the Minecraft Collaborative Building Task. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods significantly improve performance over baseline methods and provide detailed analysis for future work. |
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