arXiv AI By Ali Ahmadi, Hamed Rahimi, Adrien Jacquet Cretides, Marie Samson, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Mohamed Chetouani

Think When It Matters: Conditional VLM Reasoning for Social Navigation with RL Policies

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arXiv:2607. 10991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As mobile robots become more integrated into everyday human environments, social robot navigation is becoming essential for ensuring human comfort, safety, and trust.

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arXiv Machine Learning
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STARS: From Spatiotemporal Dynamics to Social Representations in Human-Robot Interaction

arXiv:2609.40245v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot navigation in dynamic, human-centered environments requires socially-compliant decisions grounded in robust scene understanding. Recent Vision-...

By Nathan Tsoi, Michael J. Munje, Tejas Oberoi, Rishab Maheshwari, Pengen Zheng, Tanush Chauhan, Peter Stone, Joydeep Biswas
arXiv AI
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Mem2Ego: Empowering Vision-Language Models with Global-to-Ego Memory for Long-Horizon Embodied Navigation

Mem2Ego introduces a vision‑language model for embodied navigation that combines global memory with egocentric visual inputs. By adaptively retrieving task‑relevant cues from a global memory module and aligning them with local perception, the framework improves spatial reasoning and decision‑making over long horizons. The method outperforms prior state‑of‑the‑art approaches on the HSSD and HM3D benchmarks and shows strong performance on a real robot.

By Lingfeng Zhang, Yuecheng Liu, Zhanguang Zhang, Matin Aghaei, Yixin Xiao, Yaochen Hu, Mohammad Ali Alomrani, David Gamaliel Arcos Bravo, Hongjian Gu, Zhiyuan Li, Yangzheng Wu, Zhanpeng Zhang, Raika Karimi, Atia Hamidizadeh, Guowei Huang, Haoping Xu, Tongtong Cao, Weichao Qiu, Xingyue Quan, Jianye Hao, Yuzheng Zhuang, Yingxue Zhang