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Autonomous navigation under natural language instructions represents a crucial step toward embodied intelligence, enabling complex task execution in environments ranging from industrial facilities to domestic spaces. However,…

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Vision Language Models exhibit impressive performance for various tasks, yet they often lack the sophisticated situational reasoning required for complex decision-making. This paper shows that VLMs can achieve surprisingly strong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Zhe Hu , Jing Li , Zhongzhu Pu , Hou Pong Chan , Yu Yin

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

A navigable agent needs to understand both high-level semantic instructions and precise spatial perceptions. Building navigation agents centered on Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrates a promising solution due to their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Zerui Li , Hongpei Zheng , Fangguo Zhao , Aidan Chan , Jian Zhou , Sihao Lin , Shijie Li , Qi Wu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive multimodal capabilities in learning joint representations of visual and textual data, making them powerful tools for tasks such as Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL). CZSL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Kyle Stein , Arash Mahyari , Guillermo Francia , Eman El-Sheikh

With recent progress in joint modeling of visual and textual representations, Vision-Language Pretraining (VLP) has achieved impressive performance on many multimodal downstream tasks. However, the requirement for expensive annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Zirui Wang , Jiahui Yu , Adams Wei Yu , Zihang Dai , Yulia Tsvetkov , Yuan Cao

Vision-language models (VLMs) have exhibited remarkable generalization capabilities, and prompt learning for VLMs has attracted great attention for the ability to adapt pre-trained VLMs to specific downstream tasks. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Song-Lin Lv , Yu-Yang Chen , Zhi Zhou , Ming Yang , Lan-Zhe Guo

The recent trend in the Large Vision and Language model has brought a new change in how information extraction systems are built. VLMs have set a new benchmark with their State-of-the-art techniques in understanding documents and building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Dipankar Medhi

Reasoning about spatial relationships between objects is essential for many real-world robotic tasks, such as fetch-and-delivery, object rearrangement, and object search. The ability to detect and disambiguate different objects and identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Negar Nejatishahidin , Madhukar Reddy Vongala , Jana Kosecka

We revisit and advance visual prompting (VP), an input prompting technique for vision tasks. VP can reprogram a fixed, pre-trained source model to accomplish downstream tasks in the target domain by simply incorporating universal prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Aochuan Chen , Yuguang Yao , Pin-Yu Chen , Yihua Zhang , Sijia Liu

Large language models (LLMs) have gained increasing popularity in robotic task planning due to their exceptional abilities in text analytics and generation, as well as their broad knowledge of the world. However, they fall short in decoding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Aoran Mei , Guo-Niu Zhu , Huaxiang Zhang , Zhongxue Gan

Household environments are visually diverse. Embodied agents performing Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) in the wild must be able to handle this diversity, while also following arbitrary language instructions. Recently, Vision-Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Vishnu Sashank Dorbala , Gunnar Sigurdsson , Robinson Piramuthu , Jesse Thomason , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

In question-answering scenarios, humans can assess whether the available information is sufficient and seek additional information if necessary, rather than providing a forced answer. In contrast, Vision Language Models (VLMs) typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Li Liu , Diji Yang , Sijia Zhong , Kalyana Suma Sree Tholeti , Lei Ding , Yi Zhang , Leilani H. Gilpin

Current Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks mainly employ textual instructions to guide agents. However, being inherently abstract, the same textual instruction can be associated with different visual signals, causing severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Haodong Hong , Sen Wang , Zi Huang , Qi Wu , Jiajun Liu

Vision generation remains a challenging frontier in artificial intelligence, requiring seamless integration of visual understanding and generative capabilities. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, Vision-Driven Prompt Optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Leo Franklin , Apiradee Boonmee , Kritsada Wongsuwan

Visual instruction tuning has become the predominant technology in eliciting the multimodal task-solving capabilities of large vision-language models (LVLMs). Despite the success, as visual instructions require images as the input, it would…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zikang Liu , Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Dawei Gao , Yaliang Li , Ji-Rong Wen

As multimodal language models (MLMs) are increasingly used in social and collaborative settings, it is crucial to evaluate their perspective-taking abilities. Existing benchmarks largely rely on text-based vignettes or static scene…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Jonathan Prunty , Seraphina Zhang , Patrick Quinn , Jianxun Lian , Xing Xie , Lucy Cheke

Vision-language large models have achieved remarkable success in various multi-modal tasks, yet applying them to video understanding remains challenging due to the inherent complexity and computational demands of video data. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Kai Han , Jianyuan Guo , Yehui Tang , Wei He , Enhua Wu , Yunhe Wang

Humans possess the innate ability to extract latent visuo-lingual cues to infer context through human interaction. During collaboration, this enables proactive prediction of the underlying intention of a series of tasks. In contrast,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Pranay Mathur

Enabling robotic assistants to navigate complex environments and locate objects described in free-form language is a critical capability for real-world deployment. While foundation models, particularly Vision-Language Models (VLMs), offer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Naoki Yokoyama , Sehoon Ha