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Advancing DialNav through Automatic Embodied Dialog Augmentation
Jun 18, 2026Leekyeung Han, Sangwon Jung, Hyunji Min +3Embodied Navigation Vision-Language Navigation
Korea University · Trillion Labs
Qwen-RobotNav Technical Report: A Scalable Navigation Model Designed for an Agentic Navigation System
Jun 16, 2026Jiazhao Zhang, Gengze Zhou, Hale Yin +32Robot Foundation Models Robot Navigation
Qwen Team
Foresight: Iterative Reasoning About Clues that Matter for Navigation
Jun 10, 2026Arthur Zhang, Carl Qi, Donne Su +3Robot Navigation Vision-Language Navigation
UT Austin · FieldAI
AgenticNav: Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation as a Tool-Calling Harness
Jun 9, 2026Yijian Li, Changze Li, Hantian Shi +4Vision-Language Navigation Tool-Using Vision-Language Agents
Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Huawei Technologies Ltd.
SpaceVLN: A Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation Agent with Online Spatial Cognitive Memory and Reasoning
Jun 8, 2026Yucheng Deng, Pingrui Lai, Xinhai Li +5Visual Spatial Reasoning Embodied Navigation
School of Information Science and Electronic Engineering & School of Integrated Circuits, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Institute of Artificial Intelligence, China Telecom · 3Central South University +1
Beyond Waypoints: A Trajectory-Centric Waypointing Paradigm for Vision-Language Navigation
Jun 5, 2026Haoxiang Shi, Xiang Deng, Haoyu Zhang +3Trajectory Generation Diffusion-Based Planning
Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) · Pengcheng Laboratory
Think Like a Pilot: Fine-Grained Long-Horizon UAV Navigation
Jun 5, 2026Xiangyi Zheng, Xiangyu Wang, Qinan Liao +6UAV Navigation Vision-Language Navigation
Colab, Beihang University · National University of Singapore · Meituan
GN0: Toward a Unified Paradigm for Generation, Evaluation, and Policy Learning in Visual-Language Navigation
Jun 2, 2026Xinhai Li, Xiaotao Zhang, Yuehao Huang +10Robot Policy Learning Embodied Navigation
Institute of Artificial Intelligence, China Telecom · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Zhejiang University +3
Ask When It Pays: Cost-Aware Open-Ended Interaction for Instance Goal Navigation
Jun 2, 2026Xunyi Zhao, Sihao Lin, Gengze Zhou +5Embodied Navigation AI Agent Benchmarks
1Adelaide University · 2Responsible AI Research Centre, Australian Institute for Machine Learning · Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR +2
IMAC-AgriVLN: Can Agricultural Vision-and-Language Navigation Agents be Aware of Instruction Mistakes?
Jun 1, 2026Xiaobei Zhao, Xingqi Lyu, Xin Chen +1Vision-Language Navigation Agricultural Robotics
China Agricultural University · China Agricultural University-Sichuan Advanced Agricultural & Industrial Institute
PlatonicNav: Unveiling Semantic Correspondence in Navigation with Platonic Topological Maps
Jun 1, 2026Junlin Long, Zeyu Zhang, Xu Deng +5Embodied Navigation Vision-Language Navigation
1USYD · 2Maincode · 3UNSW +1
Goal2Pixel: Grounding Goals to Pixels for Vision-Language Navigation
Jun 1, 2026Muyi Bao, Yuxin Cai, Hang Xu +7Embodied Navigation VLM Adaptation
Carnegie Mellon University · Nanyang Technological University
Hierarchical Semantic-Augmented Navigation: Optimal Transport and Graph-Driven Reasoning for Vision-Language Navigation
Jun 1, 2026Xiang Fang, Wanlong Fang, Changshuo WangRobot Navigation Robotic RL
School of Software Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme University College London
PSG-Nav: Probabilistic Scene Graph Navigation via Multiverse Decision Making
May 31, 2026Rufeng Chen, Yue Chang, Xiaqiang Tang +2Continual Robot Learning Embodied Navigation
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangdong, China · Jilin University, Jilin, China
OneVLA: A Unified Framework for Embodied Tasks
May 31, 2026Lingfeng Zhang, Xiaoshuai Hao, Yingbo Tang +10Vision-Language Navigation Robotic Manipulation
1Tsinghua University · 3Xiaomi EV · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences +3
ImagineUAV: Aerial Vision-Language Navigation via World-Action Modeling and Kinodynamic Planning
May 31, 2026Xuchen Liu, Jiawei Huang, Shihao Xia +3UAV Navigation Vision-Language Navigation
Pengcheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · School of Computer Science and Cyber Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China · Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
TARIC: Memory-Augmented Traversability-Aware Outdoor VLN under Interrupted Semantic Cues
May 29, 2026Tianle Zeng, Hanjing Ye, Jianwei Peng +3Robot Navigation Vision-Language Navigation
Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Robotics and Computer Vision, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. · CKS Robotics Institute, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China. · College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Hunan, China.
Qwen-VLA: Unifying Vision-Language-Action Modeling across Tasks, Environments, and Robot Embodiments
May 28, 2026Qiuyue Wang, Mingsheng Li, Jian Guan +37Language-Conditioned Robot Manipulation Robot Foundation Models
Qwen Team
POINav: Benchmarking and Enhancing Final-Meters Arrival in Real-World Vision-Language Navigation
May 27, 2026Ruiyan Gong, Meisheng Zhang, Yuxiang Zhao +12Vision-Language Navigation
Amap CV Lab, Alibaba Group · Peking University
Uni-LaViRA: Language-Vision-Robot Actions Translation for Unified Embodied Navigation
May 26, 2026Hongyu Ding, Sizhuo Zhang, Ziming Xu +13Large Language Model-Based Robot Planning Robot Navigation
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Beihang University, Beijing, China +2
Scaling, Benchmarking, and Reasoning of Vision-Language Agents for Mobile GUI Navigation
May 26, 2026Heng Qu, Yike Liu, Renren Jin +4VLM Evaluation Vision-Language Navigation
1Wuhan University · 2Xiaomi
Uncertainty-Aware Gaussian Map for Vision-Language Navigation
May 26, 2026Jianzhe Gao, Rui Liu, Yuxuan Xu +6Uncertainty Estimation for VLA Models Vision-Language Navigation
The State Key Lab of Brain-Machine Intelligence, Zhejiang University · Department of Foundation model, 2012 Labs, Huawei · Noah’s Ark Lab, 2012 Labs, Huawei +1
3D Gaussian Map with Open-Set Semantic Grouping for Vision-Language Navigation
May 26, 2026Jianzhe Gao, Rui Liu, Wenguan WangVision-Language Navigation 3D Scene Representation
The State Key Lab of Brain-Machine Intelligence, Zhejiang University
Bridging the 2D-3D Gap: A Hierarchical Semantic-Geometric Map for Vision Language Navigation
May 25, 2026Kailing Li, Tianwen Qian, Lijin Yang +43D Spatial Reasoning Vision-Language Navigation
School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University · 2Bosch Corporate Research, Shanghai, China · 3King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Turning Adaptation into Assets: Cross-Domain Bridging for Online Vision-Language Navigation
May 22, 2026Zixuan Hu, Xuantuo Huang, Yancheng Li +3VLM Adaptation Continual Test-Time Adaptation
School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China · School of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing, China · Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China
AwareVLN: Reasoning with Self-awareness for Vision-Language Navigation
May 21, 2026Wenxuan Guo, Xiuwei Xu, Yichen Liu +7Vision-Language Navigation VLM Reasoning
Tsinghua University, China
GA-VLN: Geometry-Aware BEV Representation for Efficient Vision-Language Navigation
May 21, 2026Jiahao Yang, Zihan Wang, Xiangyang Li +4Efficient VLM Inference Geometric Representation Learning
State Key Laboratory of AI Safety, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing · School of Computing, National University of Singapore +2
P2DNav: Panorama-to-Downview Reasoning for Zero-shot Vision-and-Language Navigation
May 19, 2026Kai Sheng, Liuyi Wang, Haojie Dai +5Embodied Navigation Vision-Language Navigation
Department of Control Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 210804, China
FlyMirage: A Fully Automated Generation Pipeline for Diverse and Scalable UAV Flight Data via Generative World Model
May 19, 2026Jinhan Li, Xijie Huang, Weiqi Gai +9UAV Navigation Synthetic Data Generation for Robotics
State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China. · Differential Robotics, Hangzhou 311121, China.
Beyond Waypoints: Dual-Heatmap Grounding for Cross-Embodiment Semantic Navigation
May 19, 2026Kaijie Yun, Yue ChenCross-Embodiment Robot Learning Vision-Language Navigation
Harbin Institute of Technology · JD AI Research

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Advancing DialNav through Automatic Embodied Dialog Augmentation

Leekyeung Han, Sangwon Jung, Hyunji Min, Jinseong Jeong+2

Korea University · Trillion Labs

Embodied Navigation Vision-Language Navigation

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For embodied agents capable of physical interaction, the capability to create and understand dialog is crucial to ensure both safety and effectiveness. While DialNav~\cite{han2025dialnav} provides a framework for holistic evaluation of the dialog--execution loop in photorealistic indoor navigation, its performance remains limited by a critical scarcity of training data (2K episodes). To address this, we propose an automatic generation pipeline, and construct the \textbf{RAINbow} dataset, a large-scale training dataset with 238K episodes for DialNav. Our pipeline converts existing VLN datasets into multi-turn dialog and creates cost-efficient and high-quality dataset. Then, we introduce two additional complementary advances to unlock the data's full potential: (1) Dual-Strategy Training, a navigation training scheme to align the navigation training with the dynamic dialog-navigation loop, and (2) a localization model that leverages VLN knowledge. By combining these complementary solutions, our model substantially outperforms the baseline in success rate on both \textbf{Val Seen} (58.24, \textbf{+89%}) and \textbf{Val Unseen} (29.05, \textbf{+100%}) splits, establishing a new state of the art.

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