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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

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) provide robots with contextual reasoning abilities to comprehend human instructions. Yet, current LLM-enabled robots typically depend on cloud-based models or high-performance computing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Wenhao Wang , Yanyan Li , Long Jiao , Jiawei Yuan

It has been an ambition of many to control a robot for a complex task using natural language (NL). The rise of large language models (LLMs) makes it closer to coming true. However, an LLM-powered system still suffers from the ambiguity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Teun van de Laar , Zengjie Zhang , Shuhao Qi , Sofie Haesaert , Zhiyong Sun

Prompt learning represents a promising method for adapting pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) to various downstream tasks by learning a set of text embeddings. One challenge inherent to these methods is the poor generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Fangming Cui , Xun Yang , Chao Wu , Liang Xiao , Xinmei Tian

Visual navigation is a fundamental capability for autonomous home-assistance robots, enabling long-horizon tasks such as object search. While recent methods have leveraged Large Language Models (LLMs) to incorporate commonsense reasoning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Teng Wang , Xinxin Zhao , Wenzhe Cai , Changyin Sun

Large Language Models (LLMs) perform best with well-crafted prompts, yet prompt engineering remains manual, inconsistent, and inaccessible to non-experts. We introduce Promptomatix, an automatic prompt optimization framework that transforms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Rithesh Murthy , Ming Zhu , Liangwei Yang , Jielin Qiu , Juntao Tan , Shelby Heinecke , Caiming Xiong , Silvio Savarese , Huan Wang

The vision-language pre-training has enabled deep models to make a huge step forward in generalizing across unseen domains. The recent learning method based on the vision-language pre-training model is a great tool for domain generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Liyuan Wang , Yan Jin , Zhen Chen , Jinlin Wu , Mengke Li , Yang Lu , Hanzi Wang

Vision-Language Tracking aims to continuously localize objects described by a visual template and a language description. Existing methods, however, are typically limited to local search, making them prone to failures under viewpoint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Jingchao Wang , Kaiwen Zhou , Zhijian Wu , Kunhua Ji , Dingjiang Huang , Yefeng Zheng

The advantages of pre-trained large language models (LLMs) are apparent in a variety of language processing tasks. But can a language model's knowledge be further harnessed to effectively disambiguate objects and navigate decision-making…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Connie Jiang , Yiqing Xu , David Hsu

Domain generalizability is a crucial aspect of a deep learning model since it determines the capability of the model to perform well on data from unseen domains. However, research on the domain generalizability of deep learning models for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Juhwan Choi , Junehyoung Kwon , JungMin Yun , Seunguk Yu , YoungBin Kim

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

In high-stakes domains, small task-specific vision models are crucial due to their low computational requirements and the availability of numerous methods to explain their results. However, these explanations often reveal that the models do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Alexander Koebler , Lukas Kuhn , Ingo Thon , Florian Buettner

Visual navigation in unknown environments based solely on natural language descriptions is a key capability for intelligent robots. In this work, we propose a navigation framework built upon off-the-shelf Visual Language Models (VLMs),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Weifan Zhang , Tingguang Li , Yuzhen Liu

Designing robotic agents to perform open vocabulary tasks has been the long-standing goal in robotics and AI. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive results in creating robotic agents for performing open vocabulary…

Effective planning requires strong world models, but high-level world models that can understand and reason about actions with semantic and temporal abstraction remain largely underdeveloped. We introduce the Vision Language World Model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Delong Chen , Theo Moutakanni , Willy Chung , Yejin Bang , Ziwei Ji , Allen Bolourchi , Pascale Fung

Prompt learning is one of the most effective and trending ways to adapt powerful vision-language foundation models like CLIP to downstream datasets by tuning learnable prompt vectors with very few samples. However, although prompt learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Cairong Zhao , Yubin Wang , Xinyang Jiang , Yifei Shen , Kaitao Song , Dongsheng Li , Duoqian Miao

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot generalization abilities: state-of-the-art chatbots can provide plausible answers to many common questions that arise in daily life. However, so far, LLMs cannot reliably…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Bo Liu , Yuqian Jiang , Xiaohan Zhang , Qiang Liu , Shiqi Zhang , Joydeep Biswas , Peter Stone

Autonomous robotic exploration of unknown and hazardous environments, a long-standing challenge, can be significantly improved by leveraging the advanced reasoning of Vision-Language Models (VLMs). We introduce a novel exploration pipeline…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Aarush Aitha , Avideh Zakhor

Vision language models (VLMs) have experienced rapid advancements through the integration of large language models (LLMs) with image-text pairs, yet they struggle with detailed regional visual understanding due to limited spatial awareness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Qiushan Guo , Shalini De Mello , Hongxu Yin , Wonmin Byeon , Ka Chun Cheung , Yizhou Yu , Ping Luo , Sifei Liu

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their potential as planners in human-robot collaboration (HRC) scenarios, offering a promising alternative to traditional planning methods. LLMs, which can generate…

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