arXiv AI By Chenyang Li, Kaige Li, Zeyu Jiang, Changhao Chen

AdvNav: Behavior-Guided Black-Box Adversarial Attacks on Vision-Language Navigation

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arXiv:2607. 11063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite progress in Embodied AI, Vision-and-Language Navigation systems remain vulnerable to adversarial visual disturbances.

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