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Object Goal Navigation-requiring an agent to locate a specific object in an unseen environment-remains a core challenge in embodied AI. Although recent progress in Vision-Language Model (VLM)-based agents has demonstrated promising…

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We present Vision-based Navigation with Language-based Assistance (VNLA), a grounded vision-language task where an agent with visual perception is guided via language to find objects in photorealistic indoor environments. The task emulates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Khanh Nguyen , Debadeepta Dey , Chris Brockett , Bill Dolan

Recent work has begun to equip vision-language-action (VLA) policies with explicit intermediate reasoning. In embodied control, however, textual chain-of-thought is a poor fit: irrelevant or weakly textual information can interfere with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Mingjian Gao , Wenqiao Zhang , Yuqian Yuan , Yang Dai , Binhe Yu , Zheqi Lv , Haoyu Zheng , Jiaqi Zhu , Zhiqi Ge , Zixuan Wan , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

The task of vision-and-language navigation in continuous environments (VLN-CE) aims at training an autonomous agent to perform low-level actions to navigate through 3D continuous surroundings using visual observations and language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Lu Yue , Dongliang Zhou , Liang Xie , Feitian Zhang , Ye Yan , Erwei Yin

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

Vision and Language Navigation (VLN) is a challenging task that requires agents to understand instructions and navigate to the destination in a visual environment.One of the key challenges in outdoor VLN is keeping track of which part of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Huilin Tian , Jingke Meng , Wei-Shi Zheng , Yuan-Ming Li , Junkai Yan , Yunong Zhang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a task that an agent is required to follow a language instruction to navigate to the goal position, which relies on the ongoing interactions with the environment during moving. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Chuang Lin , Yi Jiang , Jianfei Cai , Lizhen Qu , Gholamreza Haffari , Zehuan Yuan

In this paper, we propose GTA-VLA(Guide, Think, Act), an interactive Vision-Language-Action (VLA) framework that enables spatially steerable embodied reasoning by allowing users to guide robot policies with explicit visual cues. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yiran Ling , Qing Lian , Jinghang Li , Qing Jiang , Tianming Zhang , Xiaoke Jiang , Chuanxiu Liu , Jie Liu , Lei Zhang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a challenging task where an agent is required to navigate to a natural language described location via vision observations. The navigation abilities of the agent can be enhanced by the relations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Bowen Huang , Yanwei Zheng , Chuanlin Lan , Xinpeng Zhao , Yifei Zou , Dongxiao yu

Open-world navigation requires robots to make decisions in complex everyday environments while adapting to flexible task requirements. Conventional navigation approaches often rely on dense 3D reconstruction and hand-crafted goal metrics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Esteban Padilla-Cerdio , Boyang Sun , Marc Pollefeys , Hermann Blum

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks require an agent to navigate through the environment based on language instructions. In this paper, we aim to solve two key challenges in this task: utilizing multilingual instructions for improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Jialu Li , Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is shifting from rigid, step-by-step instruction following toward open-vocabulary, goal-oriented autonomy. Achieving this transition without exhaustive routing prompts requires agents to leverage…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zihui Yu , Pingcong Li , Bichi Zhang , Sören Schwertfeger

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of vision-language tasks. However, their performance as embodied agents, which requires multi-round dialogue spatial reasoning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xunyi Zhao , Gengze Zhou , Qi Wu

Trained with an unprecedented scale of data, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and GPT-4 exhibit the emergence of significant reasoning abilities from model scaling. Such a trend underscored the potential of training LLMs with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Gengze Zhou , Yicong Hong , Qi Wu

Despite recent advancements in Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) on diverse understanding tasks, these models struggle to solve problems which require extensive multi-step reasoning. This is primarily due to the progressive dilution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Byungwoo Jeon , Yoonwoo Jeong , Hyunseok Lee , Minsu Cho , Jinwoo Shin

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) has gained significant research interest in recent years due to its potential applications in real-world scenarios. However, existing VLN methods struggle with the issue of spurious associations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Liuyi Wang , Zongtao He , Ronghao Dang , Huiyi Chen , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen

Advances in learning and representations have reinvigorated work that connects language to other modalities. A particularly exciting direction is Vision-and-Language Navigation(VLN), in which agents interpret natural language instructions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Vihan Jain , Gabriel Magalhaes , Alexander Ku , Ashish Vaswani , Eugene Ie , Jason Baldridge

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

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to guide agents by leveraging language instructions and visual cues, playing a pivotal role in embodied AI. Indoor VLN has been extensively studied, whereas outdoor aerial VLN remains underexplored. The…