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The Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task requires an agent to follow natural language instructions and navigate through complex environments. Existing MLLM-based VLN methods primarily rely on imitation learning (IL) and often use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Zekai Zhang , Weiye Zhu , Hewei Pan , Xiangchen Wang , Rongtao Xu , Xing Sun , Feng Zheng

Visual Language Navigation (VLN) is a fundamental task within the field of Embodied AI, focusing on the ability of agents to navigate complex environments based on natural language instructions. Despite the progress made by existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Ruoyu Wang , Tong Yu , Junda Wu , Yao Liu , Julian McAuley , Lina Yao

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables intelligent agents to navigate environments by integrating visual perception and natural language instructions, yet faces significant challenges due to the scarcity of fine-grained cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Yibo Cui , Liang Xie , Yu Zhao , Jiawei Sun , Erwei Yin

Vision-language models (VLMs) have made substantial progress across a wide range of visual question answering benchmarks, spanning visual reasoning, document understanding, and multimodal dialogue. These improvements are evident in a wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Dhruba Ghosh , Yuhui Zhang , Ludwig Schmidt

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

Recent studies have revealed the potential of training open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) to unleash LLMs' reasoning ability for enhancing vision-language navigation (VLN) performance, and simultaneously mitigate the domain gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Bingqian Lin , Yunshuang Nie , Khun Loun Zai , Ziming Wei , Mingfei Han , Rongtao Xu , Minzhe Niu , Jianhua Han , Hanwang Zhang , Liang Lin , Bokui Chen , Cewu Lu , Xiaodan Liang

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables agents to navigate in complex environments by following natural language instructions grounded in visual observations. Although most existing work has focused on ground-based robots or outdoor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xu Liu , Yu Liu , Hanshuo Qiu , Yang Qirong , Zhouhui Lian

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to ground language instructions to its own movement within a visual environment. While state-of-the-art methods leverage the reasoning capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for…

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

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

Vision-language models (VLMs) have been widely-applied in ground-based vision-language navigation (VLN). However, the vast complexity of outdoor aerial environments compounds data acquisition challenges and imposes long-horizon trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Peican Lin , Gan Sun , Chenxi Liu , Fazeng Li , Weihong Ren , Yang Cong

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a task where an agent navigates in an embodied indoor environment under human instructions. Previous works ignore the distribution of sample difficulty and we argue that this potentially degrade their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Jiwen Zhang , Zhongyu Wei , Jianqing Fan , Jiajie Peng

Developing Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) agents typically assumes a \textit{train-once-deploy-once} strategy, which is unrealistic as deployed agents continually encounter novel environments. To address this, we propose the Continual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Seongjun Jeong , Gi-Cheon Kang , Seongho Choi , Joochan Kim , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Vision-language navigation (VLN) requires intelligent agents to navigate environments by interpreting linguistic instructions alongside visual observations, serving as a cornerstone task in Embodied AI. Current VLN research for unmanned…

In recent years, Embodied Artificial Intelligence (Embodied AI) has advanced rapidly, yet the increasing size of models conflicts with the limited computational capabilities of Embodied AI platforms. To address this challenge, we aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Junyou Zhu , Yanyuan Qiao , Siqi Zhang , Xingjian He , Qi Wu , Jing Liu

Conventional approaches to vision-and-language navigation (VLN) are trained end-to-end but struggle to perform well in freely traversable environments. Inspired by the robotics community, we propose a modular approach to VLN using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Kevin Chen , Junshen K. Chen , Jo Chuang , Marynel Vázquez , Silvio Savarese

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to navigate complex environments by following natural language instructions, which typically demands tight fusion of visual and language modalities. Existing VLN methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Daojie Peng , Fulong Ma , Jun Ma

Achieving human-level performance in Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to jointly understand multimodal instructions and visual-spatial context while reasoning over long action sequences. Recent works, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Jing Zuo , Lingzhou Mu , Fan Jiang , Chengcheng Ma , Mu Xu , Yonggang Qi

Recent advances in Iterative Vision-and-Language Navigation (IVLN) introduce a more meaningful and practical paradigm of VLN by maintaining the agent's memory across tours of scenes. Although the long-term memory aligns better with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Ganlong Zhao , Guanbin Li , Weikai Chen , Yizhou Yu

Bridging the gap between embodied intelligence and embedded deployment remains a key challenge in intelligent robotic systems, where perception, reasoning, and planning must operate under strict constraints on computation, memory, energy,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kuan Xu , Ruimeng Liu , Yizhuo Yang , Denan Liang , Tongxing Jin , Shenghai Yuan , Chen Wang , Lihua Xie