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Despite the remarkable progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in 2D vision-language tasks, their application to complex 3D scene manipulation remains underexplored. In this paper, we bridge this critical gap by tackling three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Zhengfei Kuang , Rui Lin , Long Zhao , Gordon Wetzstein , Saining Xie , Sanghyun Woo

Visual navigation tasks are critical for household service robots. As these tasks become increasingly complex, effective communication and collaboration among multiple robots become imperative to ensure successful completion. In recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Pengying Wu , Yao Mu , Kangjie Zhou , Ji Ma , Junting Chen , Chang Liu

Developing agents capable of navigating to a target location based on language instructions and visual information, known as vision-language navigation (VLN), has attracted widespread interest. Most research has focused on ground-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xiangyu Wang , Donglin Yang , Ziqin Wang , Hohin Kwan , Jinyu Chen , Wenjun Wu , Hongsheng Li , Yue Liao , Si Liu

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated potential in Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks, yet current applications face challenges. While LLMs excel in general conversation scenarios, they struggle with specialized navigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yunzhe Xu , Yiyuan Pan , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

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) 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

Wildfire monitoring demands autonomous systems capable of reasoning under extreme visual degradation, rapidly evolving physical dynamics, and scarce real-world training data. Existing UAV navigation approaches rely on simplified simulators…

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a natural language grounding task where agents have to interpret natural language instructions in the context of visual scenes in a dynamic environment to achieve prescribed navigation goals.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Haoshuo Huang , Vihan Jain , Harsh Mehta , Jason Baldridge , Eugene Ie

We present a novel high-level planning framework that leverages vision-language models (VLMs) to improve autonomous navigation in unknown indoor environments with many dead ends. Traditional exploration methods often take inefficient routes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 D. Schwartz , K. Kondo , J. P. How

The increasingly complex and diverse planetary exploration environment requires more adaptable and flexible rover navigation strategy. In this study, we propose a VLM-empowered multi-mode system to achieve efficient while safe autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Sinuo Cheng , Ruyi Zhou , Wenhao Feng , Huaiguang Yang , Haibo Gao , Zongquan Deng , Liang Ding

Vision-language navigation (VLN) is the task of entailing an agent to carry out navigational instructions inside photo-realistic environments. One of the key challenges in VLN is how to conduct a robust navigation by mitigating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Hanqing Wang , Wenguan Wang , Tianmin Shu , Wei Liang , Jianbing Shen

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

An emerging paradigm in vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is the use of history-aware multi-modal transformer models. Given a language instruction, these models process observation and navigation history to predict the most appropriate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Dongwoo Kang , Akhil Perincherry , Zachary Coalson , Aiden Gabriel , Stefan Lee , Sanghyun Hong

As a fundamental problem for Artificial Intelligence, multi-agent system (MAS) is making rapid progress, mainly driven by multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) techniques. However, previous MARL methods largely focused on grid-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Haiyang Wang , Wenguan Wang , Xizhou Zhu , Jifeng Dai , Liwei Wang

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

This paper proposes VLA-AN, an efficient and onboard Vision-Language-Action (VLA) framework dedicated to autonomous drone navigation in complex environments. VLA-AN addresses four major limitations of existing large aerial navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yuze Wu , Mo Zhu , Xingxing Li , Yuheng Du , Yuxin Fan , Wenjun Li , Zhichao Han , Xin Zhou , Fei Gao

VALAN is a lightweight and scalable software framework for deep reinforcement learning based on the SEED RL architecture. The framework facilitates the development and evaluation of embodied agents for solving grounded language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Larry Lansing , Vihan Jain , Harsh Mehta , Haoshuo Huang , Eugene Ie

The emerging vision-and-language navigation (VLN) problem aims at learning to navigate an agent to the target location in unseen photo-realistic environments according to the given language instruction. The main challenges of VLN arise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Weixia Zhang , Chao Ma , Qi Wu , Xiaokang Yang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable progress in Vision-Language Navigation (VLN), offering new possibilities for navigation decision-making that could benefit both robotic platforms and human users. However, real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Xia Su , Ruiqi Chen , Benlin Liu , Jingwei Ma , Zonglin Di , Ranjay Krishna , Jon Froehlich
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