LAP: A Language-Aware Planning Model For Procedure Planning In Instructional Videos

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Autores principales: Shi, Lei, Aregbede, Victor, Persson, Andreas, Längkvist, Martin, Loutfi, Amy, Lowry, Stephanie
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Publicado: 2026
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author Shi, Lei
Aregbede, Victor
Persson, Andreas
Längkvist, Martin
Loutfi, Amy
Lowry, Stephanie
author_facet Shi, Lei
Aregbede, Victor
Persson, Andreas
Längkvist, Martin
Loutfi, Amy
Lowry, Stephanie
contents Procedure planning requires a model to predict a sequence of actions that transform a start visual observation into a goal in instructional videos. While most existing methods rely primarily on visual observations as input, they often struggle with the inherent ambiguity where different actions can appear visually similar. In this work, we argue that language descriptions offer a more distinctive representation in the latent space for procedure planning. We introduce Language-Aware Planning (LAP), a novel method that leverages the expressiveness of language to bridge visual observation and planning. LAP uses a finetuned Vision Language Model (VLM) to translate visual observations into text descriptions and to predict actions and extract text embeddings. These text embeddings are more distinctive than visual embeddings and are used in a diffusion model for planning action sequences. We evaluate LAP on three procedure planning benchmarks: CrossTask, Coin, and NIV. LAP achieves new state-of-the-art performance across multiple metrics and time horizons by large margin, demonstrating the significant advantage of language-aware planning.
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spellingShingle LAP: A Language-Aware Planning Model For Procedure Planning In Instructional Videos
Shi, Lei
Aregbede, Victor
Persson, Andreas
Längkvist, Martin
Loutfi, Amy
Lowry, Stephanie
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Procedure planning requires a model to predict a sequence of actions that transform a start visual observation into a goal in instructional videos. While most existing methods rely primarily on visual observations as input, they often struggle with the inherent ambiguity where different actions can appear visually similar. In this work, we argue that language descriptions offer a more distinctive representation in the latent space for procedure planning. We introduce Language-Aware Planning (LAP), a novel method that leverages the expressiveness of language to bridge visual observation and planning. LAP uses a finetuned Vision Language Model (VLM) to translate visual observations into text descriptions and to predict actions and extract text embeddings. These text embeddings are more distinctive than visual embeddings and are used in a diffusion model for planning action sequences. We evaluate LAP on three procedure planning benchmarks: CrossTask, Coin, and NIV. LAP achieves new state-of-the-art performance across multiple metrics and time horizons by large margin, demonstrating the significant advantage of language-aware planning.
title LAP: A Language-Aware Planning Model For Procedure Planning In Instructional Videos
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09743