arXiv:2603. 18624v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Zero-shot object-goal navigation (ZSON) requires navigating unknown environments to find a target object without task-specific training.
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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.
EgoPathBench is a new dataset and benchmark that tests zero‑shot egocentric waypoint decision‑making in vision‑language models. Each task presents an egocentric RGB image, a natural‑language goal, and numbered visible waypoints, and models must return traversable candidates or an ordered route. The benchmark evaluates candidate feasibility, edge legality, and goal arrival under point‑agent or embodied geometry, covering 31,852 training, 1,345 validation, and 1,111 benchmark questions. "whyItMatters":"The benchmark reveals that current VLMs perform poorly on integrated navigation tasks, highlighting a gap in spatial intelligence that can be addressed by fine‑tuning with the released training data."
Building memory is essential for long-horizon planning in zero-shot embodied navigation. Detector-centric scene graphs often compress observations into sparse nodes, discarding fine-grained visual evidence and accumulating noise, while 3D reconstruction-based methods remain computationally prohibitive.
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....
Zero-shot waypoint navigation requires vision-language models to select, from the current first-person observation, a sequence of spatial actions that is feasible for the agent and reaches the goal, p...
arXiv:2512. 21201v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) requires robots to find target objects in unseen environments without task-specific fine-tuning or pre-built maps, a key capability for general-purpose service robots.