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Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN), where an agent follows instructions to reach a target destination, has recently seen significant advancements. In contrast to navigation in discrete environments with predefined trajectories, VLN in…

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Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) is one of the most intuitive yet challenging embodied AI tasks. Agents are tasked to navigate towards a target goal by executing a set of low-level actions, following a…

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to follow natural-language instructions, explore the given environments, and reach the desired target locations. These step-by-step navigational instructions are crucial when the agent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Yubo Zhang , Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been increasingly integrated into object navigation tasks for their rich prior knowledge and strong reasoning abilities. However, applying VLMs to navigation poses two key challenges: effectively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Haokun Zhu , Zongtai Li , Zhixuan Liu , Wenshan Wang , Ji Zhang , Jonathan Francis , Jean Oh

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) is a core challenge in embodied AI, requiring agents to navigate real-world environments using natural language instructions. Current language model-based navigation systems operate on discrete topological…

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Autonomous robotic exploration of unknown and hazardous environments, a long-standing challenge, can be significantly improved by leveraging the advanced reasoning of Vision-Language Models (VLMs). We introduce a novel exploration pipeline…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Aarush Aitha , Avideh Zakhor

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to ground complex natural-language instructions into long-horizon navigation in unseen environments. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offer strong 2D semantic understanding,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zihao Xin , Wentong Li , Yixuan Jiang , Ziyuan Huang , Bin Wang , Piji Li , Jianke Zhu , Jie Qin , Shengjun Huang

Visual navigation is an essential skill for home-assistance robots, providing the object-searching ability to accomplish long-horizon daily tasks. Many recent approaches use Large Language Models (LLMs) for commonsense inference to improve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xinxin Zhao , Wenzhe Cai , Likun Tang , Teng Wang

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…

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

Following human instructions to explore and search for a specified target in an unfamiliar environment is a crucial skill for mobile service robots. Most of the previous works on object goal navigation have typically focused on a single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Bangguo Yu , Yuzhen Liu , Lei Han , Hamidreza Kasaei , Tingguang Li , Ming Cao

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is the task that requires an agent to navigate through the environment based on natural language instructions. At each step, the agent takes the next action by selecting from a set of navigable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Jialu Li , Mohit Bansal

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) tasks require an agent to navigate step-by-step while perceiving the visual observations and comprehending a natural language instruction. Large data bias, which is caused by the disparity ratio between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Chong Liu , Fengda Zhu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang , Zongyuan Ge , Yi-Dong Shen

We study the challenging problem of releasing a robot in a previously unseen environment, and having it follow unconstrained natural language navigation instructions. Recent work on the task of Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Peter Anderson , Ayush Shrivastava , Joanne Truong , Arjun Majumdar , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra , Stefan Lee

Navigating towards fully open language goals and exploring open scenes in an intelligent way have always raised significant challenges. Recently, Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities to reason with both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Zecheng Yin , Chonghao Cheng , and Yao Guo , Zhen Li

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

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are set to transform robotic navigation, existing methods often underutilize their reasoning capabilities. To unlock the full potential of VLMs in robotics, we shift their role from passive observers to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Mobin Habibpour , Fatemeh Afghah

Vision-language navigation (VLN), in which an agent follows language instruction in a visual environment, has been studied under the premise that the input command is fully feasible in the environment. Yet in practice, a request may not be…

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