arXiv:2606. 00095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables embodied agents to reach target locations in unseen environments by following language instructions.
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.
arXiv:2606. 12550v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-world mapless navigation from sparse language instructions requires resolving underspecified goals and inferring which environmental cues are relevant for reaching the goal.
arXiv:2603.26788v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Zero-shot object navigation requires agents to locate unseen targets in unfamiliar environments without prior maps or task-specific training....
On-policy exploration is a crucial component for training robust Vision-Language Navigation agents, as it exposes the policy to a broader state distribution. However, such exploration inevitably leads to trajectories that deviate from expert demonstrations, resulting in a semantic mismatch between the executed visual stream and the original language instruction.
arXiv:2604. 16993v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As embodied AI transitions to real-world deployment, the success of the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task tends to evolve from mere reachability to social compliance.
arXiv:2606. 07244v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) requires agents to follow natural-language instructions while navigating in real-world-like environments.
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.
arXiv:2606. 08992v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation in continuous environments requires agents to understand the spatial structure of previously unseen environments in order to follow language instructions.
arXiv:2609.13458v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied language grounding requires more than identifying the referent of an instruction: recovered semantics must also control the action an agent...
AVERT-VLN introduces a closed‑loop framework for vision‑and‑language navigation that incorporates an abstention‑aware Monitor to detect instruction‑execution inconsistencies. The Monitor is trained on a new LOSTNAV dataset of 20K counterfactual risk trajectories and fine‑tuned on 40K normal trajectories to recognize semantic deviations. During deployment, the Monitor can suspend autonomous navigation and request human guidance, while offline preference learning uses deviation‑associated failures to improve the policy, achieving 76.2% and 66.3% success on R2R‑CE and RxR‑CE unseen splits.
SeekVLN is a new framework for Vision‑Language Navigation that addresses the problem of agents acting on insufficient evidence, termed Progress Myopia. It combines semantic progress reasoning with active evidence seeking, trained first with Future‑guided Reverse Generation to augment expert trajectories, and then refined via Counterfactual Contrastive Policy Optimization to reward beneficial seeking actions. Experiments on simulated benchmarks show significant gains, improving success rates by 12.7% on R2R‑CE and 7.5% on RxR‑CE, and real‑world tests demonstrate human‑like evidence‑seeking behavior.