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Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables robots to follow natural-language instructions in visually grounded environments, serving as a key capability for embodied robotic systems. Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Qitong Wang , Yijun Liang , Ming Li , Tianyi Zhou , Christopher Rasmussen

In the field of instruction-following large vision-language models (LVLMs), the efficient deployment of these models faces challenges, notably due to the high memory demands of their key-value (KV) caches. Conventional cache management…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Zuyan Liu , Benlin Liu , Jiahui Wang , Yuhao Dong , Guangyi Chen , Yongming Rao , Ranjay Krishna , Jiwen Lu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) in continuous environments requires agents to interpret natural language instructions while navigating unconstrained 3D spaces. Existing VLN-CE frameworks rely on a two-stage approach: a waypoint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Xiangyu Shi , Zerui Li , Wenqi Lyu , Jiatong Xia , Feras Dayoub , Yanyuan Qiao , Qi Wu

Visual language models encounter challenges in computational efficiency and latency, primarily due to the substantial redundancy in the token representations of high-resolution images and videos. Current attention/similarity-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Dehua Zheng , Mouxiao Huang , Borui Jiang , Hailin Hu , Xinghao Chen

The application of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) for analyzing images and videos is an exciting and rapidly evolving field. In recent years, we've seen significant growth in high-quality image-text datasets for fine-tuning image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Han Wang , Yuxiang Nie , Yongjie Ye , Deng GuanYu , Yanjie Wang , Shuai Li , Haiyang Yu , Jinghui Lu , Can Huang

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) presents a complex challenge in embodied AI, requiring agents to interpret natural language instructions and navigate through visually rich, unfamiliar environments. Recent advances in large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yicheng Duan , Kaiyu tang

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-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to navigate in a complex 3D environment according to natural language instructions. Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has enabled language-driven navigation with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zijun Li , Shijie Li , Zhenxi Zhang , Bin Li , Shoujun Zhou

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is a multimodal task where an agent follows natural language instructions and navigates in visual environments. Multiple setups have been proposed, and researchers apply new model architectures or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Wanrong Zhu , Yuankai Qi , Pradyumna Narayana , Kazoo Sone , Sugato Basu , Xin Eric Wang , Qi Wu , Miguel Eckstein , William Yang Wang

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to enable agents to navigate to a target location based on language instructions. Traditional VLN often follows a close-set assumption, i.e., training and test data share the same style of the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yang Li , Aming Wu , Zihao Zhang , Yahong Han

Recent advancements in Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) have gained significant attention due to their remarkable reasoning capabilities and proficiency in generalization. However, processing a large number of visual tokens and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Kai Huang , Hao Zou , Bochen Wang , Ye Xi , Zhen Xie , Hao Wang

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been extended to understand both images and videos. Visual token compression is leveraged to reduce the considerable token length of visual inputs. To meet the needs of different tasks, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Chenyu Yang , Xuan Dong , Xizhou Zhu , Weijie Su , Jiahao Wang , Hao Tian , Zhe Chen , Wenhai Wang , Lewei Lu , Jifeng Dai

This paper presents a novel approach for the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task in continuous 3D environments, which requires an autonomous agent to follow natural language instructions in unseen environments. Existing end-to-end…

The computational expense of redundant vision tokens in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) has led many existing methods to compress them via a vision projector. However, this compression may lose visual information that is crucial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Ze Feng , Jiang-jiang Liu , Sen Yang , Lingyu Xiao , Zhibin Quan , Zhenhua Feng , Wankou Yang , Jingdong Wang

In this paper, we present a simple, flexible and effective vision-language (VL) tracking pipeline, termed \textbf{MMTrack}, which casts VL tracking as a token generation task. Traditional paradigms address VL tracking task indirectly with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yaozong Zheng , Bineng Zhong , Qihua Liang , Guorong Li , Rongrong Ji , Xianxian Li

Transformer-based models have driven significant advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), yet their computational costs surge drastically when scaling resolution, training data, and model parameters. A key bottleneck stems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Weili Zeng , Ziyuan Huang , Kaixiang Ji , Yichao Yan

The rapid progress of large language models (LLMs) has laid the foundation for multimodal models. However, visual language models (VLMs) still face heavy computational costs when extended from images to videos due to high frame rates and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Peiran Wu , Zhuorui Yu , Yunze Liu , Chi-Hao Wu , Enmin Zhou , Junxiao Shen

Conventional Vision-Language Models(VLMs) typically utilize a fixed number of vision tokens, regardless of task complexity. This one-size-fits-all strategy introduces notable inefficiencies: using excessive tokens leads to unnecessary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Junshan Hu , Jialiang Mao , Zhikang Liu , Zhongpu Xia , Peng Jia , Xianpeng Lang

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer a unified framework for robotic perception and control, but their ability to scale to real-world, long-horizon tasks is limited by the high computational cost of attention and the large memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Wanshun Xu , Long Zhuang , Lianlei Shan

Recent work in Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has presented two environmental paradigms with differing realism -- the standard VLN setting built on topological environments where navigation is abstracted away, and the VLN-CE setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Jacob Krantz , Stefan Lee