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Large multimodal models (LMMs) show strong visual-linguistic reasoning but their capacity for spatial decision-making and action remains unclear. In this work, we investigate whether LMMs can achieve embodied spatial action like human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Baining Zhao , Ziyou Wang , Jianjie Fang , Zile Zhou , Yanggang Xu , Yatai Ji , Jiacheng Xu , Qian Zhang , Weichen Zhang , Chen Gao , Xinlei Chen

Visual Language Models (VLMs) have increasingly become the main paradigm for understanding indoor scenes, but they still struggle with metric and spatial reasoning. Current approaches rely on end-to-end video understanding or large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Fernando Ropero , Erkin Turkoz , Daniel Matos , Junqing Du , Antonio Ruiz , Yanfeng Zhang , Lu Liu , Mingwei Sun , Yongliang Wang

Equipping LLMs with tool-use capabilities via Agentic Reinforcement Learning (Agentic RL) is bottlenecked by two challenges: the lack of scalable, robust execution environments and the scarcity of realistic training data that captures…

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a core task where embodied agents leverage their spatial mobility to navigate in 3D environments toward designated destinations based on natural language instructions. Recently, video-language large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Zihan Wang , Seungjun Lee , Gim Hee Lee

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated exceptional general reasoning capabilities. However, their performance in embodied navigation remains hindered by a scarcity of aligned open-world vision and robot control data. Despite…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhixuan Shen , Jiawei Du , Ziyu Guo , Han Luo , Lilan Peng , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Haonan Luo , Tianrui Li

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly proposed as general-purpose tools for scientific data interpretation, yet their reliability on real astronomical observations across diverse modalities remains untested. We present…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Wenke Ren , Hengxiao Guo , Wenwen Zuo , Xiaoman Zhang

Pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) can make semantic and visual inferences across diverse settings, providing valuable common-sense priors for robotic control. However, effectively grounding this knowledge in robot behaviors remains…

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made significant progress in explicit instruction-based navigation; however, their ability to interpret implicit human needs (e.g., "I am thirsty") in dynamic urban environments remains underexplored. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Siqi Wang , Chao Liang , Yunfan Gao , Erxin Yu , Sen Li , Yushi Li , Jing Li , Haofen Wang

LLM-powered embodied agents have shown success on conventional object-rearrangement tasks, but providing personalized assistance that leverages user-specific knowledge from past interactions presents new challenges. We investigate these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Taeyoon Kwon , Dongwook Choi , Hyojun Kim , Sunghwan Kim , Seungjun Moon , Beong-woo Kwak , Kuan-Hao Huang , Jinyoung Yeo

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN), as a crucial research problem of Embodied AI, requires an embodied agent to navigate through complex 3D environments following natural language instructions. Recent research has highlighted the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Bingqian Lin , Yunshuang Nie , Ziming Wei , Jiaqi Chen , Shikui Ma , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

Large language models excel at a wide range of complex tasks. However, enabling general inference in the real world, e.g., for robotics problems, raises the challenge of grounding. We propose embodied language models to directly incorporate…

Visual search in 3D environments requires embodied agents to actively explore their surroundings and acquire task-relevant evidence. However, existing visual search and embodied AI benchmarks, including EQA, typically rely on static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Koya Sakamoto , Taiki Miyanishi , Daichi Azuma , Shuhei Kurita , Shu Morikuni , Naoya Chiba , Motoaki Kawanabe , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yutaka Matsuo

We present a Collaborative Agent-Based Framework for Multi-Image Reasoning. Our approach tackles the challenge of interleaved multimodal reasoning across diverse datasets and task formats by employing a dual-agent system: a language-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Angelos Vlachos , Giorgos Filandrianos , Maria Lymperaiou , Nikolaos Spanos , Ilias Mitsouras , Vasileios Karampinis , Athanasios Voulodimos

Reward models play an essential role in training vision-language models (VLMs) by assessing output quality to enable aligning with human preferences. Despite their importance, the research community lacks comprehensive open benchmarks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Michihiro Yasunaga , Luke Zettlemoyer , Marjan Ghazvininejad

Incremental decision making in real-world environments is one of the most challenging tasks in embodied artificial intelligence. One particularly demanding scenario is Vision and Language Navigation~(VLN) which requires visual and natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Raphael Schumann , Wanrong Zhu , Weixi Feng , Tsu-Jui Fu , Stefan Riezler , William Yang Wang

Autonomous driving has seen significant progress, driven by extensive real-world data. However, in long-tail scenarios, accurately predicting the safety of the ego vehicle's future motion remains a major challenge due to uncertainties in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zhiyi Hou , Enhui Ma , Fang Li , Zhiyi Lai , Kalok Ho , Zhanqian Wu , Lijun Zhou , Long Chen , Chitian Sun , Haiyang Sun , Bing Wang , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Kaicheng Yu

Recent advances in the areas of multimodal machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) have led to the development of challenging tasks at the intersection of Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Embodied AI. Whereas many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Jonathan Francis , Nariaki Kitamura , Felix Labelle , Xiaopeng Lu , Ingrid Navarro , Jean Oh

Despite significant advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), current models still face substantial challenges in handling complex, multi-turn, and visually-grounded tasks that demand deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Seungmin Han , Haeun Kwon , Ji-jun Park , Taeyang Yoon

Embodied intelligence fundamentally requires a capability to determine where to act in 3D space. We formalize this requirement as embodied localization -- the problem of predicting executable 3D points conditioned on visual observations and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qiming Zhu , Zhirui Fang , Tianming Zhang , Chuanxiu Liu , Xiaoke Jiang , Lei Zhang

Visual reasoning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has primarily been studied in static, fully observable settings, limiting their effectiveness in real-world environments where information is often incomplete due to occlusion or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Weijie Zhou , Xuantang Xiong , Yi Peng , Manli Tao , Chaoyang Zhao , Honghui Dong , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang