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In the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task, the agent is required to navigate to a destination following a natural language instruction. While learning-based approaches have been a major solution to the task, they suffer from high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Zhaohuan Zhan , Lisha Yu , Sijie Yu , Guang Tan

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) stands as a key research problem of Embodied AI, aiming at enabling agents to navigate in unseen environments following linguistic instructions. In this field, generalization is a long-standing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jiazhao Zhang , Kunyu Wang , Rongtao Xu , Gengze Zhou , Yicong Hong , Xiaomeng Fang , Qi Wu , Zhizheng Zhang , He Wang

With the rapid progress of foundation models and robotics, vision-language navigation (VLN) has emerged as a key task for embodied agents with broad practical applications. We address VLN in continuous environments, a particularly…

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Eye-hand coordinated interaction is becoming a mainstream interaction modality in Virtual Reality (VR) user interfaces.Current paradigms for this multimodal interaction require users to learn predefined gestures and memorize multiple…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhimin Wang , Chenyu Gu , Feng Lu

In this paper, we propose a training-free framework for vision-and-language navigation (VLN). Existing zero-shot VLN methods are mainly designed for discrete environments or involve unsupervised training in continuous simulator…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Hang Yin , Haoyu Wei , Xiuwei Xu , Wenxuan Guo , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Vision-and-language navigation is one of the core tasks in embodied intelligence, requiring an agent to autonomously navigate in an unfamiliar environment based on natural language instructions. However, existing methods often fail to match…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Dongsheng Yang , Meiling Zhu , Yinfeng Yu

In this work we concentrate on the task of goal-oriented Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN). Existing methods often make decisions based on historical information, overlooking the future implications and long-term outcomes of the actions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Peiran Xu , Xicheng Gong , Yadong MU

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

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) empowers agents to associate time-sequenced visual observations with corresponding instructions to make sequential decisions. However, generalization remains a persistent challenge, particularly when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zerui Li , Gengze Zhou , Haodong Hong , Yanyan Shao , Wenqi Lyu , Yanyuan Qiao , Qi Wu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a challenging task that requires an agent to navigate through photorealistic environments following natural-language instructions. One main obstacle existing in VLN is data scarcity, leading to poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yu Zhong , Rui Zhang , Zihao Zhang , Shuo Wang , Chuan Fang , Xishan Zhang , Jiaming Guo , Shaohui Peng , Di Huang , Yanyang Yan , Xing Hu , Qi Guo

Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a novel task enabling Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to navigate in outdoor environments through natural language instructions and visual cues. However, it remains challenging due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yunpeng Gao , Zhigang Wang , Pengfei Han , Linglin Jing , Dong Wang , Bin Zhao

As embodied intelligence emerges as a core frontier in artificial intelligence research, simulation platforms must evolve beyond low-level physical interactions to capture complex, human-centered social behaviors. We introduce FreeAskWorld,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yuhang Peng , Yizhou Pan , Xinning He , Jihaoyu Yang , Xinyu Yin , Han Wang , Xiaoji Zheng , Chao Gao , Jiangtao Gong

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires the agent to follow language instructions to navigate through 3D environments. One main challenge in VLN is the limited availability of photorealistic training environments, which makes it hard…

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Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) aims to develop agents capable of navigating in realistic environments. While recent cross-modal training approaches have significantly improved navigation performance in both indoor and outdoor…

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Long-horizon robotic manipulation requires plans that are both logically coherent and geometrically grounded. Existing Vision-Language-Action policies usually hide planning in latent states or expose only one modality: text-only…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Jinkun Liu , Haohan Chi , Lingfeng Zhang , Yifan Xie , YuAn Wang , Long Chen , Hangjun Ye , Xiaoshuai Hao , Wenbo Ding

We propose the problem of conversational web navigation, where a digital agent controls a web browser and follows user instructions to solve real-world tasks in a multi-turn dialogue fashion. To support this problem, we introduce WEBLINX -…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Xing Han Lù , Zdeněk Kasner , Siva Reddy

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

Real-world deployment of Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) agents is constrained by the scarcity of reliable supervision after offline training. While recent adaptation methods attempt to mitigate distribution shifts via…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yongqiang Yu , Xuhui Li , Hazza Mahmood , Jinxing Zhou , Haodong Hong , Longtao Jiang , Zhiqiang Xu , Qi Wu , Xiaojun Chang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate a promising direction for assisting individuals with blindness or low-vision (BLV). Yet, measuring their true utility in real-world scenarios is challenging because evaluating whether their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Eunki Kim , Na Min An , Wan Ju Kang , Sangryul Kim , James Thorne , Hyunjung Shim

Sequential-Horizon Vision-and-Language Navigation (SH-VLN) presents a challenging scenario where agents should sequentially execute multi-task navigation guided by complex, long-horizon language instructions. Current vision-and-language…

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