arXiv AI
Oct 15

MemoryVLN: From Ego-Aware Memory Representation to Cross-Context Memory Reuse in Vision-Language Navigation

MemoryVLN introduces a memory-driven navigation system that compresses long navigation histories and reuses past spatial experience. It uses forgetting-curve-inspired temporal sampling for long sequence compression, an ego-aware memory representation that fuses 2D semantic, 3D geometric, and 6D pose tokens, and a hierarchical memory bank for in-episode and context-level memory management. The system retrieves top‑K relevant memories to augment current visual tokens, achieving significant improvements on R2R‑CE and RxR‑CE benchmarks.

By Xueyao Wei, Yifei Wang, Delun Li, Shaoan Wang, Junzhi Yu, Wenjie Song, Xingyu Chen
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 21

DriveVLA-M0: Failure-Aware Memory Augmentation for Autonomous Driving

DriveVLA-M0 introduces a failure-aware latent memory system for Vision‑Language‑Action models in autonomous driving. It stores past failure cases with scene representations and expert trajectories, and uses a retrieval model to decouple static road structure from dynamic agent interactions. During inference, retrieved cases are injected via a lightweight LoRA‑based test‑time training mechanism, yielding significant performance gains on NAVSIM benchmarks with minimal latency overhead.

By Zebin Xing, Yupeng Zheng, Qiang Chen, Linbo Wang, Yichen Zhang, Pengxuan Yang, Junli Wang, Deheng Qian, Xiaoqing Ye, Junyu Han, Yifeng Pan, Qichao Zhang, Dongbin Zhao
arXiv AI
3d ago

What Should a Navigator Remember? Spatiotemporal Memory for Zero-Shot Vision-Language Navigation

The paper investigates how an 8‑billion‑parameter vision‑language navigation system should store and organize past observations for zero‑shot navigation. It proposes a structured memory comprising task progress, hierarchically compressed observation history tied to poses, and accumulated geometry, which an observer summarizes and a reasoner uses to select waypoint intents or request new views. Experiments on R2R‑CE and real‑world Unitree Go2 robots show that preserving temporal and spatial memories improves success rates and path efficiency compared to baselines that omit these components.

By Yuhang Peng, Zhikai Wang, Ziyi Wang, Jiaru Zhong, Xiaoji Zheng, Jingzhi Huang, Yi Wang, Jiangtao Gong
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

LookStep: Efficient Vision-Language Navigation with Linguistic Foresight and Event Driven Memory

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