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GemNav: Discrete-Token Visual Robot Navigation using a Multimodal Large Language Model

arXiv:2607. 06882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual navigation policies built on large pretrained models have so far followed a common recipe: a dedicated visual encoder, a bespoke action head, and training on thousands of hours of cross-embodiment datasets.

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Jul 8

GemNav: Discrete-Token Visual Robot Navigation using a Multimodal Large Language Model

Visual navigation policies built on large pretrained models have so far followed a common recipe: a dedicated visual encoder, a bespoke action head, and training on thousands of hours of cross-embodiment datasets. We ask whether this recipe is necessary.

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arXiv AI

Sep 1

LightNav-0: Eliciting VLM Spatial Intelligence for Generalist Embodied Navigation

arXiv:2608.30935v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied navigation requires agents to translate heterogeneous goals and visual observations into actions across tasks, environments, and robot embod...

By Shaoan Wang, Aocheng Luo, Fei Huang, Jingyi Xu, Xiaoyang Wang, Yueyu Wang, Qianli Ma, Fan Yang, Ran Mei, Jia Wei, Jiangpeng Hu, Xuhao Liu, Hongming Chen, Yuanbin Shao, Yiyang Lin, Ziliang Li, Liang Pan, Xinhang Liu, Yuntao Ma, Tingxiang Fan

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arXiv AI

Jul 24

VoLN: Vision-Only Long-Horizon Navigation---Paradigm, Benchmark, and Method

arXiv:2607. 21400v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) enables embodied agents to follow natural-language instructions.

By Jiabin Lou, Haopeng Wang, Yuanshuai Wang, Xinyu Liu, Xuxin Lv, Yuxin Guo, Lei Huang, Rongye Shi, Wenjun Wu

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arXiv AI

Jul 14

ABot-N1: Toward a General Visual Language Navigation Foundation Model

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

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 1

ViTL: Temporal Logic-Guided Zero-Shot Natural Language Navigation via Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606. 30696v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enabling robots to follow natural language commands to complete zero-shot long-horizon tasks remains challenging.

By Kaier Liang, Hengde Dai, Cristian-Ioan Vasile

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arXiv AI

Aug 13

G0.5: One Autoregressive Stream for Robot Reasoning and Action

arXiv:2608. 11739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The prevailing recipe for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models couples a pretrained VLM with a separately trained flow-matching action expert.

By Yicheng Liu, Zibin Dong, Baijun Ye, Tianyuan Yuan, Tao Jiang, Anqi Yang, Shicheng Cao, Haonan Liu, Yue Sun, Zihan Guo, Xiao Liu, Dong Ke, Changxun Pan, Chenru Wu, Tailai Cheng, Xiaoshu Ren, Xinlei Zhang, Jianning Cui, Zijie Zhao, Haoyu Zhang, Kaiming Xu, Haodong Yang, Bowen Zhang, Jiahui Niu, Shaoting Zhu, Shiduo Zhang, Hang Zhao

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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

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arXiv Computer Vision

Aug 31

Beyond Data Scaling: Representation-Centric Continued Pre-training for Vision-Language-Action Models

The paper introduces VLAct, a Vision‑Language‑Action model that focuses on representation‑centric continued pre‑training rather than merely scaling robot data. VLAct is trained on diverse, multi‑embodiment robot data and preserves a broad VLM prior while encouraging shared action semantics across embodiments. Experiments across simulation, real‑world, and unseen‑embodiment settings show that VLAct consistently outperforms existing industrial VLA systems, achieving high success rates with only a modest compute budget and open‑source data.

By Senqiao Yang, Chengyao Wang, Yuxin Chen, Zixuan Wang, Longxiang Tang, Haokun Gui, Jinhui Ye, Changsheng Lu, Xiaoyang Wu, Mingkang Zhu, Pengguang Chen, Shu Liu, Zhuotao Tian, Hengshuang Zhao, Bei Yu, Jiaya Jia

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arXiv AI

2d ago

UrbanVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Urban Micromobility

arXiv:2510.23576v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Urban micromobility applications, such as delivery robots, demand reliable navigation across large-scale urban environments while following l...

By Anqi Li, Zhiyong Wang, Jiazhao Zhang, Minghan Li, Yunpeng Qi, Zhibo Chen, Zhizheng Zhang, He Wang

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 5

DRIFT: A Residual Flow Adapter for Decoding Continuous Outputs in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606. 05758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many modern vision-language models (VLMs) build on autoregressive decoding of discrete tokens.

By Zhuoming Liu, Jinhong Lin, Kwan Man Cheng, Lin Zhang, Shayok Bagchi, Yin Li

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arXiv AI

Jul 21

PGN: Design and Implementation of a Vision-Language Navigation System Based on Pangu Multimodal Foundation Model

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

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arXiv AI

Sep 10

One MLLM, One Call: Efficient Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation via Spatial-Aware Waypoints

arXiv:2609.06476v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) requires an embodied agent to navigate unseen environments by following natural la...

By Shiqi Pan, Qi Zheng, Hanqin Sun, Youjian Zhang, Daquan Feng, Xu Wang

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