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This paper considers a scenario in city navigation: an AI agent is provided with language descriptions of the goal location with respect to some well-known landmarks; By only observing the scene around, including recognizing landmarks and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Qingbin Zeng , Qinglong Yang , Shunan Dong , Heming Du , Liang Zheng , Fengli Xu , Yong Li

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to guide agents by leveraging language instructions and visual cues, playing a pivotal role in embodied AI. Indoor VLN has been extensively studied, whereas outdoor aerial VLN remains underexplored. The…

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a natural language grounding task where agents have to interpret natural language instructions in the context of visual scenes in a dynamic environment to achieve prescribed navigation goals.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Haoshuo Huang , Vihan Jain , Harsh Mehta , Jason Baldridge , Eugene Ie

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to empower robots with the ability to perform long-horizon navigation in unfamiliar environments based on complex linguistic instructions. Its success critically hinges on establishing an efficient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Ling Luo , Qianqian Bai

The Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task entails an agent following navigational instruction in photo-realistic unknown environments. This challenging task demands that the agent be aware of which instruction was completed, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Chih-Yao Ma , Jiasen Lu , Zuxuan Wu , Ghassan AlRegib , Zsolt Kira , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

Developing agents capable of navigating to a target location based on language instructions and visual information, known as vision-language navigation (VLN), has attracted widespread interest. Most research has focused on ground-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xiangyu Wang , Donglin Yang , Ziqin Wang , Hohin Kwan , Jinyu Chen , Wenjun Wu , Hongsheng Li , Yue Liao , Si Liu

While recent large vision-language models (VLMs) have improved generalization in vision-language navigation (VLN), existing methods typically rely on end-to-end pipelines that map vision-language inputs directly to short-horizon discrete…

Learning to follow instructions is of fundamental importance to autonomous agents for vision-and-language navigation (VLN). In this paper, we study how an agent can navigate long paths when learning from a corpus that consists of shorter…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Wang Zhu , Hexiang Hu , Jiacheng Chen , Zhiwei Deng , Vihan Jain , Eugene Ie , Fei Sha

Vision-language models (VLMs) have excelled in multimodal tasks, but adapting them to embodied decision-making in open-world environments presents challenges. One critical issue is bridging the gap between discrete entities in low-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Shaofei Cai , Zihao Wang , Kewei Lian , Zhancun Mu , Xiaojian Ma , Anji Liu , Yitao Liang

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is a core challenge in embodied AI, requiring agents to navigate real-world environments using natural language instructions. Current language model-based navigation systems operate on discrete topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhangyang Qi , Zhixiong Zhang , Yizhou Yu , Jiaqi Wang , Hengshuang Zhao

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to navigate in a complex 3D environment according to natural language instructions. Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has enabled language-driven navigation with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zijun Li , Shijie Li , Zhenxi Zhang , Bin Li , Shoujun Zhou

Embodied navigation requires robots to understand and interact with the environment based on given tasks. Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is an embodied navigation task, where a robot navigates within a previously seen and unseen…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Muraleekrishna Gopinathan , Jumana Abu-Khalaf , David Suter , Martin Masek

Vision and Language Navigation (VLN) is a challenging task that requires agents to understand instructions and navigate to the destination in a visual environment.One of the key challenges in outdoor VLN is keeping track of which part of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Huilin Tian , Jingke Meng , Wei-Shi Zheng , Yuan-Ming Li , Junkai Yan , Yunong Zhang

Learned world models summarize an agent's experience to facilitate learning complex behaviors. While learning world models from high-dimensional sensory inputs is becoming feasible through deep learning, there are many potential ways for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Danijar Hafner , Timothy Lillicrap , Jimmy Ba , Mohammad Norouzi

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are set to transform robotic navigation, existing methods often underutilize their reasoning capabilities. To unlock the full potential of VLMs in robotics, we shift their role from passive observers to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Mobin Habibpour , Fatemeh Afghah

Little inquiry has explicitly addressed the role of action spaces in language-guided visual navigation -- either in terms of its effect on navigation success or the efficiency with which a robotic agent could execute the resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Jacob Krantz , Aaron Gokaslan , Dhruv Batra , Stefan Lee , Oleksandr Maksymets

Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLNCE), where an agent follows instructions and moves freely to reach a destination, is a key research problem in embodied AI. However, most existing approaches are sensitive to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Josh Qixuan Sun , Huaiyuan Weng , Xiaoying Xing , Chul Min Yeum , Mark Crowley

To navigate partially observable visual environments, recent VLM agents increasingly internalize world modeling capabilities into their policies via explicit CoT reasoning, enabling them to mentally simulate futures before acting. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Haoxi Li , Qinglin Hou , Jianfei Ma , Jinxiang Lai , Tao Han , Sikai Bai , Jingcai Guo , Jie Zhang , Song Guo

Humans navigate unfamiliar environments using episodic simulation and episodic memory, which facilitate a deeper understanding of the complex relationships between environments and objects. Developing an imaginative memory system inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yiyuan Pan , Yunzhe Xu , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Recent advancements in Generative AI, particularly in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), offer new possibilities for integrating cognitive planning into robotic systems. In this work, we present a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Arjun P S , Andrew Melnik , Gora Chand Nandi