arXiv AI

Planning with the Views

arXiv:2605. 29563v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Can VLMs predict how each camera move changes the view, and plan many such moves ahead?

arXiv AI
Sep 21

Visual Navigation Transformer with Pose Attention

arXiv:2609.21212v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learned navigation policies typically consume observations as a temporally ordered history, with positional encodings tying each observation to when...

By Beiming Li, Jaime Romero, Jonathan Diller, Vijay Kumar, Alejandro Ribeiro
arXiv AI
Sep 17

Visual Cue Guided Video Planning for Generalizable Robot Navigation

CueNav is a video model-based navigation framework that uses visual cues—a Bird's-Eye View map for global task context and a body-aware egocentric view for embodiment context—to guide a video planner. The framework couples this planner with an embodiment-specific Inverse-Dynamics Model that translates dense flow fields from the video plan into robot actions. Experiments show that CueNav nearly doubles maze navigation success compared to cue-less planning and achieves 70% success in narrow passages, while also supporting zero-shot semantic-conditioned navigation across different robot platforms.

By Hojin Lee, Sizhe Lester Li, Maximilian Hilger, Susie Lu, Achim J. Lilienthal, Vincent Sitzmann, Daniel A. Duecker
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

Think3D: Thinking with Space for Spatial Reasoning

Think3D introduces a framework that endows Vision‑Language Models with interactive 3D chain‑of‑thought reasoning by integrating 3D manipulation tools for active spatial exploration. The approach improves performance on benchmarks such as BLINK Multi‑view, MindCube‑1K, and VSI‑Bench‑Tiny for proprietary models like GPT‑4.1 and Gemini 2.5 Pro, and a reinforcement‑learning variant, Think3D‑RL, enables open‑weight models such as Qwen3‑VL‑4B to autonomously learn effective 3D exploration strategies, yielding tool‑use patterns comparable to stronger models and turning a performance drop on MindCube‑1K into a substantial improvement.

By Zaibin Zhang, Yuhan Wu, Lianjie Jia, Yifan Wang, Zhongbo Zhang, Yijiang Li, Binghao Ran, Fuxi Zhang, Zhuohan Sun, Yizhuang Peng, Zhenfei Yin, Lijun Wang, Huchuan Lu
arXiv AI
Jul 24

Robostral Navigate

arXiv:2607. 20785v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying navigation systems at scale requires a recipe that minimizes sensor assumptions, generalizes across robot embodiments, and trains efficiently.

By Arjun Majumdar, Avinash Sooriyarachchi, Benjamin Tibi, Chris Bamford, Elliot Chane-Sane, Guillaume Lample, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Ludovic Ho Fuh, Mathieu Poiree, Olivier Duchenne, Rosalie Millner, Srijan Mishra, Theo Cachet, Thomas Chabal