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Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to navigate photo-realistic environments following natural language instructions. Current methods predominantly rely on imitation learning, which suffers from limited generalization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jiangyang Li , Cong Wan , SongLin Dong , Chenhao Ding , Qiang Wang , Zhiheng Ma , Yihong Gong

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to follow natural-language instructions and navigate through previously unseen environments. Recent approaches increasingly employ large language models (LLMs) as high-level navigators…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Shutian Gu , Chengkai Huang , Ruoyu Wang , Lina Yao

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks agents with locating specific objects in unseen environments using natural language instructions and visual cues. Many existing VLN approaches typically follow an 'observe-and-reason' schema, that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yanjia Huang , Mingyang Wu , Renjie Li , Zhengzhong Tu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) poses significant challenges for agents to interpret natural language instructions and navigate complex 3D environments. While recent progress has been driven by large-scale pre-training and data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Tianyi Ma , Yue Zhang , Zehao Wang , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Real-world navigation often involves dealing with unexpected obstructions such as closed doors, moved objects, and unpredictable entities. However, mainstream Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks typically assume instructions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Haodong Hong , Sen Wang , Zi Huang , Qi Wu , Jiajun Liu

A robot that can carry out a natural-language instruction has been a dream since before the Jetsons cartoon series imagined a life of leisure mediated by a fleet of attentive robot helpers. It is a dream that remains stubbornly distant.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Peter Anderson , Qi Wu , Damien Teney , Jake Bruce , Mark Johnson , Niko Sünderhauf , Ian Reid , Stephen Gould , Anton van den Hengel

Domain adaptation refers to the process of learning prediction models in a target domain by making use of data from a source domain. Many classic methods solve the domain adaptation problem by establishing a common latent space, which may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Pan Xiao , Bo Du , Jia Wu , Lefei Zhang , Ruimin Hu , Xuelong Li

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to enable agents to navigate to a target location based on language instructions. Traditional VLN often follows a close-set assumption, i.e., training and test data share the same style of the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yang Li , Aming Wu , Zihao Zhang , Yahong Han

The aspiration of the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task has long been to develop an embodied agent with robust adaptability, capable of seamlessly transferring its navigation capabilities across various tasks. Despite remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Siqi Zhang , Yanyuan Qiao , Qunbo Wang , Longteng Guo , Zhihua Wei , Jing Liu

We consider the problem of Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN). The majority of current methods for VLN are trained end-to-end using either unstructured memory such as LSTM, or using cross-modal attention over the egocentric observations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Georgios Georgakis , Karl Schmeckpeper , Karan Wanchoo , Soham Dan , Eleni Miltsakaki , Dan Roth , Kostas Daniilidis

Vision Language Navigation (VLN) typically requires agents to navigate to specified objects or remote regions in unknown scenes by obeying linguistic commands. Such tasks require organizing historical visual observations for linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Bolei Chen , Jiaxu Kang , Yifei Wang , Ping Zhong , Qi Wu , Jianxin Wang

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) enables the agent to navigate to a remote location following the natural language instruction in 3D environments. At each navigation step, the agent selects from possible candidate locations and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Zihan Wang , Xiangyang Li , Jiahao Yang , Yeqi Liu , Junjie Hu , Ming Jiang , Shuqiang Jiang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to navigate to the target location by following a given instruction. Unlike existing methods focused on predicting a more accurate action at each step in navigation, in this paper, we make the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chongyang Zhao , Yuankai Qi , Qi Wu

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) aims to enable embodied agents to navigate in realistic environments using natural language instructions. Given the scarcity of domain-specific training data and the high diversity of image and language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Pierre-Louis Guhur , Makarand Tapaswi , Shizhe Chen , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is a challenging task that requires an embodied agent to perform action-level modality alignment, i.e., make instruction-asked actions sequentially in complex visual environments. Most existing VLN agents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Bingqian Lin , Yi Zhu , Zicong Chen , Xiwen Liang , Jianzhuang Liu , Xiaodan Liang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to find a path to a remote location on the basis of natural-language instructions and a set of photo-realistic panoramas. Most existing methods take the words in the instructions and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Yuankai Qi , Zizheng Pan , Yicong Hong , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Anton van den Hengel , Qi Wu

Recent research looks to harness the general knowledge and reasoning of large language models (LLMs) into agents that accomplish user-specified goals in interactive environments. Vision-language models (VLMs) extend LLMs to multi-modal data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Jake Grigsby , Yuke Zhu , Michael Ryoo , Juan Carlos Niebles

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is unique in that it requires turning relatively general natural-language instructions into robot agent actions, on the basis of the visible environment. This requires to extract value from two very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Yuankai Qi , Zizheng Pan , Shengping Zhang , Anton van den Hengel , Qi Wu

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) agents are trained to navigate in real-world environments by following natural language instructions. A major challenge in VLN is the limited availability of training data, which hinders the models'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Zi-Yi Dou , Feng Gao , Nanyun Peng

To be successful, Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) agents must be able to ground instructions to actions based on their surroundings. In this work, we develop a methodology to study agent behavior on a skill-specific basis -- examining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Zijiao Yang , Arjun Majumdar , Stefan Lee