arXiv:2606. 28397v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language navigation (VLN) has recently advanced with large language and multimodal models, enabling agents to follow natural-language instructions in unseen environments without training a task-specific navigation policy.
By Shaoxuan Li, Xiangyu Dong, Xiaoguang Ma, Junfeng Chen, Haoran Zhao, Yaoming Zhou
LookStep is a new end‑to‑end framework for Vision‑Language Navigation that integrates Language‑Centric Future State Modeling with an Event‑Driven Rolling Memory. It uses language labels to predict coarse navigation progress and future states for candidate actions, and autonomously decides which observations to store in a bounded memory with semantic roles. Empirical results show that LookStep outperforms existing methods on VLN‑CE tasks, achieving a 49.7% success rate on R2R‑CE Val‑Unseen while improving memory efficiency and reducing data requirements.
By Kun-Yang Yu, Yingzhe Li, Hongyu Xu, Shi-Yu Tian, Zhi Zhou, Yang Chen, Ming Yang, Sheng Wang, Qing Yu, Lan-Zhe Guo, Yu-Feng Li
arXiv:2607. 17806v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to interpret a natural-language instruction and predict actions from temporally ordered visual observations.
By Li Xian, Mingxi Li, Yizheng Wang, Yiming Shen, Qi Chen, Zhuoling Xiao
arXiv:2607. 01754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy exploration is a crucial component for training robust Vision-Language Navigation agents, as it exposes the policy to a broader state distribution.
By Sung June Kim, Sangpil Kim, Honglak Lee
arXiv:2607. 02222v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation has increasingly emphasized high-level instruction reasoning, memory, global map construction, and instruction decomposition, while the low-level action representation remains comparatively underexplored.
By Haokun Liu, Zhaoqi Ma, Yicheng Chen, Wentao Zhang, Masaki Kitagawa, Zicen Xiong, Jinjie Li, Moju Zhao
arXiv:2606. 15099v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models predominantly rely on explicit Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning to bridge perception and action.
By Dianqiao Lei, Lianlei Shan
RTNav is a new architecture for real‑time zero‑shot object navigation that explicitly accounts for inference latency, asynchronous environment stepping, and bounded compute. It addresses the performance drop seen in existing methods when deployed under realistic timing constraints. On real‑time variants of HM3D‑v1, HM3D‑v2, and HM3D‑OVON, RTNav boosts success rate by up to 11% and Success weighted by Completion Time by up to 5.1 points.
By Easop Lee, Lingyu Zhang, Boyuan Chen
arXiv:2604. 17473v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation(VLN) requires an agent to navigate through 3D environments by following natural language instructions.
By Kangyi Wu, Pengna Li, Kailin Lyu, Xi Lin, Lin Zhao, Qingrong He, Jinjun Wang, Jianyi Liu
arXiv:2605. 06317v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) methods typically adopt an egocentric, step-by-step paradigm, which struggles with error accumulation and limits efficiency.
By Dijia Zhan, Jinyi Li, Chenxi Zheng, Shaoyu Huang, Yong Li, Jie Tang, Xuemiao Xu
arXiv:2607. 08359v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables UAV autonomous navigation in unknown environments by mapping language instructions to real-time visual inputs.
By Xueke Zhu, Qingyan Meng, Liutao Yu, Wei Zhang, Zhengyu Ma, Huihui Zhou, Yonghong Tian
arXiv:2607. 01043v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Memory-based discrete vision-language navigation (VLN) agents must act under partial observability, yet even strong frozen backbones remain vulnerable at test time.
By Shaoheng Zhang, Zhichen Li, Jie Mei
arXiv:2607. 10383v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual Language Navigation foundation models aim to unify deep reasoning for grounded spatial decisions with broad versatility for diverse embodied tasks.
By Ruiyan Gong, Yingnan Guo, Junjun Hu, Jintao Kong, Xiaoxu Leng, Tianlun Li, Weize Li, Fei Liu, Zhicheng Liu, Jia Lu, Minghua Luo, Chenlin Ming, Yanfen Shen, Jiyue Tao, Zhengbo Wang, Mingyang Yin, Minqi Gu, Zihao Guan, Wei Guo, Guoqing Liu, Huachong Pang, Menglin Yang, Zeqian Ye, Xiaoxiao Geng, Zhining Gu, Honglin Han, Di Jing, Hongyu Pan, Mingchao Sun, Kuan Yang, Jianfang Zhang, Yanghong Chen, Ye He, Wei Mei, Jiahao Shi, Xiangpo Yang, Yanqing Zhu, Zedong Chu, Xiaolong Wu, Mu Xu