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End-to-End Visual Language Navigation with Limited Sensing: A Survey

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    <h1>🧭 Awesome Visual Language Navigation</h1>
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## 🌟 Overview
- [📚 Preliminaries](#-preliminaries)
- [🧠 Context Modeling](#-context-modeling)
- [🔮 Imaginative Prediction](#-imaginative-prediction)
- [🎯 Decision Planning](#-decision-planning)
- [⚠️ Reflection from Error](#-reflection-from-error)
- [🌐 Broader Navigation Literature](#-broader-navigation-literature)
- [🚀 Future Directions](#-future-directions)

## 📚 Preliminaries
### Simulation, Data and Control
#### Toward More Realistic Simulation
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                                                           | Venue            | Resources                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| ---: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2026 | **[Image2Sim: Scaling Embodied Navigation via Generative Neural Simulator](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05765)**                                              | 2026 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/MrZihan/Image2Sim) [![Data](https://img.shields.io/badge/Data-FFD21E?logo=huggingface&logoColor=000)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/MrZihanWang/Image2Sim-V1/tree/main) | 
| 2026 | **[Habitat-GS: A High-Fidelity Navigation Simulator with Dynamic Gaussian Splatting](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12626)**                                              | 2026 arXiv | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://zju3dv.github.io/habitat-gs/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/zju3dv/habitat-gs) | 
| 2026 | **[NavGSim: High-Fidelity Gaussian Splatting Simulator for Large-Scale Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15186)**                      | 2026 ICRA       | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/2003jiahang/NavGSim)       |
| 2025 | **[VLNVerse: A Benchmark for Vision-Language Navigation with Versatile, Embodied, Realistic Simulation and Evaluation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19021)**                      | 2025 arXiv       | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://sihaoevery.github.io/vlnverse/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/InternRobotics/InternNav)            |
| 2025 | **[Towards Physically Executable 3D Gaussian for Embodied Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21307)**                                                                       | 2025 arXiv       | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| 2025 | **[Rethinking the embodied gap in vision-and-language navigation: A holistic study of physical and visual disparities](https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13019)**                      | 2025 ICCV        | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://crystalsixone.github.io/vln_pe.github.io/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/InternRobotics/InternNav) |
| 2023 | **[Habitat 3.0: A co-habitat for humans, avatars and robots](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13724)**                                                                      | 2023 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| 2021 | **[Habitat-Matterport 3D Dataset (HM3D): 1000 Large-scale 3D Environments for Embodied AI](https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08238)**                                                  | 2021 NeurIPS D&B | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| 2020 | **[Beyond the nav-graph: Vision-and-language navigation in continuous environments](https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.02857)**                                                         | 2020 ECCV        | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| 2019 | **[PyRobot: An Open-source Robotics Framework for Research and Benchmarking](https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08236)**                                                                | 2019 arXiv       | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/facebookresearch/pyrobot)                                                                                                                                                |
| 2019 | **[Habitat: A Platform for Embodied AI Research](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_ICCV_2019/html/Savva_Habitat_A_Platform_for_Embodied_AI_Research_ICCV_2019_paper.html)** | 2019 ICCV        | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-lab)                                                                                                                                            |
| 2018 | **[Gibson env: Real-world perception for embodied agents](http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/html/Xia_Gibson_Env_Real-World_CVPR_2018_paper.html)** | 2018 CVPR   |  —  |
| 2017 | **[AI2-THOR: An Interactive 3D Environment for Visual AI](https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05474)** | 2017 arXiv | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://ai2thor.allenai.org/) |
| 2017 | **[Matterport3D: Learning from RGB-D Data in Indoor Environments](https://vision.princeton.edu/projects/2017/Matterport3D/)**                                                   | 2017 3DV         | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/niessner/Matterport)                                                                                                                                                     |

#### Towards More Diverse Datasets&Benchmarks
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                                                                                    | Venue      | Resources                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| ---: | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2026 | **[Beyond Isolation: A Unified Benchmark for General-Purpose Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09441)**                                                                | 2026 RSS | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](http://omninavbench.cloud-ip.cc/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/AutoLab-SAI-SJTU/OmniNavBench)                                                                                                                                            |
| 2026 | **[MiniVLA-Nav v1: A Multi-Scene Simulation Dataset for Language-Conditioned Robot Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00397)** | 2026 arXiv | — |
| 2026 | **[Explore with Long-term Memory: A Benchmark and Multimodal LLM-based Reinforcement Learning Framework for Embodied Exploration](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10744)** | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| 2026 | **[CoNavBench: Collaborative Long-Horizon Vision-Language Navigation Benchmark](https://openreview.net/forum?id=bMrH2PFMsi)**                                         | 2026 ICLR  | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://navcraft.github.io/)                                                                                                                                |
| 2026 | **[Rule-VLN: Bridging Perception and Compliance via Semantic Reasoning and Geometric Rectification](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16993)**                                                                | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| 2026 | **[AirNav: A Large-Scale Real-World UAV Vision-and-Language Navigation Dataset with Natural and Diverse Instructions](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03707)**                                                | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| 2025 | **[IndoorUAV: Benchmarking Vision-Language UAV Navigation in Continuous Indoor Environments](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19024)**                                                                         | 2025 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| 2025 | **[VL-LN Bench: Towards Long-horizon Goal-oriented Navigation with Active Dialogs](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22342)**                                                                                   | 2025 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/InternRobotics/VL-LN) [![Data](https://img.shields.io/badge/Data-FFD21E?logo=huggingface&logoColor=000)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/InternRobotics/VL-LN-Bench)                                                                                                                                           |
| 2025 | **[OpenFly: A Comprehensive Platform for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18041)**                                                                                          | 2025 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/SHAILAB-IPEC/OpenFly-Platform) [![Data](https://img.shields.io/badge/Data-FFD21E?logo=huggingface&logoColor=000)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/IPEC-COMMUNITY/OpenFly)                                                                                                                                      |
| 2025 | **[Collaborative Instance Object Navigation: Leveraging Uncertainty-Awareness to Minimize Human-Agent Dialogues](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04947)** | 2025 ICCV  | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://intelligolabs.github.io/CoIN/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/intelligolabs/CoIN) [![Data](https://img.shields.io/badge/Data-FFD21E?logo=huggingface&logoColor=000)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ftaioli/CoIN-Bench)        |
| 2025 | **[RoomTour3D: Geometry-Aware Video-Instruction Tuning for Embodied Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08591)**                                                                                      | 2025 CVPR  | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/roomtour3d/roomtour3d-NaviLLM) [![Data](https://img.shields.io/badge/Data-FFD21E?logo=huggingface&logoColor=000)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/roomtour3d/roomtour3d)                                                                                                                                       |
| 2025 | **[Towards long-horizon vision-language navigation: Platform, benchmark and method](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09082)**                                                                                  | 2025 CVPR  | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/HCPLab-SYSU/LH-VLN)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| 2025 | **[CityWalker: Learning Embodied Urban Navigation from Web-Scale Videos](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.17820)**                                                                                             | 2025 CVPR  | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/ai4ce/CityWalker) [![Data](https://img.shields.io/badge/Data-FFD21E?logo=huggingface&logoColor=000)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ai4ce/CityWalker)                                                                                                                                                         |
| 2025 | **[UrbanNav: Learning Language-Guided Urban Navigation from Web-Scale Human Trajectories](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09607)**                                         | 2025 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/CASIA-IVA-Lab/UrbanNav)                                                                                                                              |
| 2025 | **[UAV-Flow Colosseo: A Real-World Benchmark for Flying-on-a-Word UAV Imitation Learning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15725)**                                         | 2025 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| 2024 | **[Embodiedcity: A benchmark platform for embodied agent in real-world city environment](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09604)**                                          | 2024 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/tsinghua-fib-lab/EmbodiedCity)                                                                                                                       |
| 2024 | **[InstruGen: Automatic Instruction Generation for Vision-and-Language Navigation Via Large Multimodal Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11394)**                                                       | 2024 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/yanyu0526/InstruGen)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| 2024 | **[Towards realistic uav vision-language navigation: Platform, benchmark, and methodology](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07087)**                                                                           | 2024 arXiv | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://prince687028.github.io/OpenUAV/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/prince687028/TravelUAV) [![Data](https://img.shields.io/badge/Data-FFD21E?logo=huggingface&logoColor=000)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/wangxiangyu0814/TravelUAV_env) |
| 2024 | **[CityNav: Language-goal aerial navigation dataset with geographic information](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14240)**                                                                                     | 2024 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/water-cookie/citynav-arxiv)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| 2024 | **[Mind the error! detection and localization of instruction errors in vision-and-language navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10700)**                                                               | 2024 IROS  | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://intelligolabs.github.io/R2RIE-CE/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/intelligolabs/R2RIE-CE)                        |
| 2024 | **[Hazard challenge: Embodied decision making in dynamically changing environments](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12975)**                                                                                  | 2024 arXiv | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/hazard/)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| 2023 | **[AerialVLN: Vision-and-Language Navigation for UAVs](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06735)**                                                                                                               | 2023 ICCV  | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/AirVLN/AirVLN)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| 2023 | **[Iterative vision-and-language navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03087)**                                                                                                                         | 2023 CVPR  | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/jacobkrantz/IVLN-CE)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| 2023 | **[Scaling Data Generation in Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2023/html/Wang_Scaling_Data_Generation_in_Vision-and-Language_Navigation_ICCV_2023_paper.html)** | 2023 ICCV  | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| 2022 | **[REVE-CE: Remote Embodied Visual Referring Expression in Continuous Environment](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9674225/)**                                                                      | 2022 RA-L  | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| 2021 | **[Talk2Nav: Long-Range Vision-and-Language Navigation with Dual Attention and Spatial Memory](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11263-020-01374-3)**        | 2021 IJCV  | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| 2020 | **[Room-across-room: Multilingual vision-and-language navigation with dense spatiotemporal grounding](https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07954)**                                                                | 2020 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| 2018 | **[Vision-and-language navigation: Interpreting visually-grounded navigation instructions in real environments](https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.07280)**                                                      | 2018 CVPR  | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |

#### Towards More Continuous Control
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                                | Venue      | Resources                                                                                                                           |
| ---: | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2026 | **[FreqCache: Accelerating Embodied VLN Models with Adaptive Frequency-Guided Token Caching](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24391)** | 2026 arXiv | —         |
| 2026 | **[LiveVLN: Breaking the Stop-and-Go Loop in Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19536)**                                         | 2026 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/NIneeeeeem/LiveVLN)              |
| 2026 | **[VLN-Cache: Enabling Token Caching for VLN Models with Visual/Semantic Dynamics Awareness](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07080)** | 2026 arXiv | —         |
| 2026 | **[AutoFly: Vision-Language-Action Model for UAV Autonomous Navigation in the Wild](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09657)**                               | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                   |
| 2025 | **[Embodied Navigation Foundation Model](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12129)**                                                                         | 2025 arXiv | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://pku-epic.github.io/NavFoM-Web/) |
| 2022 | **[Bridging the gap between learning in discrete and continuous environments for vision-and-language navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02764)** | 2022 CVPR  | —                                                                                                                                   |
| 2021 | **[Hierarchical cross-modal agent for robotics vision-and-language navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10674)**                                   | 2021 ICRA  | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/GT-RIPL/robo-vln)                |

## 🧠 Context Modeling
### Context Perception
#### Spatial Perception
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                          | Venue      | Resources                                                                                                                 |
| ---: | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2026 | **[GA-VLN: Geometry-Aware BEV Representation for Efficient Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22036)** | 2026 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/jahhaoyang/GA-VLN)                                                                                                                      |
| 2026 | **[What Limits Vision-and-Language Navigation ?](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13328)** | 2026 arXiv | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://yunheng-wang.github.io/stereonav-public.github.io/)  [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/Yunheng-Wang/StereoNav)                                                                                                                      |
| 2026 | **[SpaAct: Spatially-Activated Transition Learning with Curriculum Adaptation for Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27620)** | 2026 arXiv | — |
| 2026 | **[GIST: Multimodal Knowledge Extraction and Spatial Grounding via Intelligent Semantic Topology](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15495)** | 2026 arXiv | — |
| 2026 | **[Instruction-as-State: Environment-Guided and State-Conditioned Semantic Understanding for Embodied Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18223)** | 2026 arXiv | — |
| 2026 | **[DyGeoVLN: Infusing Dynamic Geometry Foundation Model into Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21269)**                   | 2026 arXiv | — |
| 2026 | **[SPAN-Nav: Generalized Spatial Awareness for Versatile Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09163)**                       | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                         |
| 2026 | **[Spatial-VLN: Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation With Explicit Spatial Perception and Exploration](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12766)** | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                         |
| 2026 | **[JanusVLN: Decoupling Semantics and Spatiality with Dual Implicit Memory for Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22548)** | 2026 ICLR | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://miv-xjtu.github.io/JanusVLN.github.io/)  [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/MIV-XJTU/JanusVLN)                                                                                                                      |
| 2025 | **[Efficient-VLN: A Training-Efficient Vision-Language Navigation Model](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10310)**                                   | 2025 arXiv |     [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://lavi-lab.github.io/Efficient-VLN/)                                                                                                                     |
| 2025 | **[MG-Nav: Dual-Scale Visual Navigation via Sparse Spatial Memory](https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.22609)**                                         | 2025 arXiv | —                                                                                                                         |
| 2024 | **[NaVid: Video-based VLM Plans the Next Step for Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15852)**                          | 2024 RSS   | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/jzhzhang/NaVid-VLN-CE) |

#### Temporal Perception
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                             | Venue      | Resources                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| ---: | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 2026 | **[ActiveVLN: Towards Active Exploration via Multi-Turn RL in Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12618)** | 2026 ICRA |  [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/arvillion/ActiveVLN)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| 2026 | **[StreamVLN: Streaming Vision-and-Language Navigation via SlowFast Context Modeling](https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05240)**         | 2026 ICRA | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/OpenRobotLab/StreamVLN) [![Data](https://img.shields.io/badge/Data-FFD21E?logo=huggingface&logoColor=000)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/cywan/StreamVLN-Trajectory-Data) |
| 2025 | **[NaVILA: Legged Robot Vision-Language-Action Model for Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04453)**                          | 2025 RSS   | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/AnjieCheng/NaVILA) [![Bench](https://img.shields.io/badge/Bench-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/yang-zj1026/NaVILA-Bench)                           |
| 2021 | **[VLN-BERT: A Recurrent Vision-and-Language BERT for Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13922)**                             | 2021 CVPR  | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/YicongHong/Recurrent-VLN-BERT)                                                                                                                                              |

### Context Memory
#### Memory Representation
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                                             | Venue      | Resources                                                                                                                 |
| ---: | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2026 | **[MemVLN: Episodic and Procedural Memory for Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23504)**                             | 2026 arXiv  | — |
| 2026 | **[LASAR: Towards Spatio-temporal Reasoning with Latent Cognitive Map](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16899)**                             | 2026 CVPR  | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/tangjzh/LASAR)                                                                                                                                              |
| 2026 | **[Explore Like Humans: Autonomous Exploration with Online SG-Memo Construction for Embodied Agents](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19034)** | 2026 arXiv | — |
| 2026 | **[Hypothesis Graph Refinement: Hypothesis-Driven Exploration with Cascade Error Correction for Embodied Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04108)** | 2026 arXiv | — |
| 2026 | **[HiMemVLN: Enhancing Reliability of Open-Source Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation with Hierarchical Memory System](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14807)**   | 2026 arXiv | — |
| 2026 | **[HaltNav: Reactive Visual Halting over Lightweight Topological Priors for Robust Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12696)**                | 2026 arXiv | — |
| 2026 | **[GSMem: 3D Gaussian Splatting as Persistent Spatial Memory for Zero-Shot Embodied Exploration and Reasoning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19137)**                | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                         |
| 2026 | **[Structured Observation Language for Efficient and Generalizable Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27577)**                                | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                         |
| 2025 | **[Open-Nav: Exploring Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environment with Open-Source LLMs](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18794)**              | 2025 ICRA  | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/YanyuanQiao/Open-Nav)  |
| 2025 | **[MapNav: A Novel Memory Representation via Annotated Semantic Maps for VLM-based Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.638/)** | 2025 ACL   | —                                                                                                                         |
| 2024 | **[MapGPT: Map-Guided Prompting with Adaptive Path Planning for Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07314)**                               | 2024 ACL   | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/chen-judge/MapGPT)     |
| 2022 | **[BEVBert: Multimodal Map Pre-training for Language-guided Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04385)**                                                       | 2022 arXiv | —                                                                                                                         |
| 2021 | **[Structured Scene Memory for Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03454)**                                                                    | 2021 CVPR  | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/HanqingWangAI/SSM-VLN) |

#### Memory Retrieval and Utilization
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                                 | Venue      | Resources |
| ---: | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- |
| 2026 | **[Dual-Anchoring: Addressing State Drift in Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17473)**                                          | 2026 arXiv | —         |
| 2026 | **[Beyond Textual Knowledge-Leveraging Multimodal Knowledge Bases for Enhancing Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26859)** | 2026 arXiv | —         |
| 2026 | **[CMMR-VLN: Vision-and-Language Navigation via Continual Multimodal Memory Retrieval](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07997)**                            | 2026 arXiv | —         |
| 2026 | **[One Agent to Guide Them All: Empowering MLLMs for Vision-and-Language Navigation via Explicit World Representation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15400)** | 2026 arXiv | —         |
| 2026 | **[SpatialNav: Leveraging Spatial Scene Graphs for Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06806)**                      | 2026 arXiv | —         |
| 2025 | **[Dream to Recall: Imagination-Guided Experience Retrieval for Memory-Persistent Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08553)** | 2025 arXiv | —         |
| 2025 | **[FSR-VLN: Fast and Slow Reasoning for Vision-Language Navigation with Hierarchical Multi-modal Scene Graph](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13733)**     | 2025 arXiv | —         |
| 2025 | **[OpenIN: Open-Vocabulary Instance-Oriented Navigation in Dynamic Domestic Environments](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04279)**                         | 2025 RA-L  | —         |
| 2024 | **[OrionNav: Online Planning for Robot Autonomy with Context-Aware LLM and Open-Vocabulary Semantic Scene Graphs](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06239)** | 2024 arXiv | —         |

### Context Efficiency
#### Reducing Temporal Redundancy
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                 | Venue      | Resources |
| ---: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- |
| 2026 | **[DecoVLN: Decoupling Observation, Reasoning, and Correction for Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13133)** | 2026 arXiv | —         |
| 2025 | **[RANGER: A Monocular Zero-Shot Semantic Navigation Framework through Contextual Adaptation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24212)**            | 2025 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| 2025 | **[C-NAV: Towards self-evolving continual object navigation in open world](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20685)**                               | 2025 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| 2025 | **[AstraNav-Memory: Contexts Compression for Long Memory](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21627)**                                         | 2025 arXiv | —         |
| 2025 | **[COSMO: Combination of Selective Memorization for Low-cost Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.24065)**      | 2025 ICCV  | —         |

#### Reducing Spatial Redundancy
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                | Venue    | Resources                                                                                                              |
| ---: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2026 | **[Structured Observation Language for Efficient and Generalizable Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27577)**                                | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                         |
| 2025 | **[Embodied Navigation Foundation Model](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12129)**                                                                         | 2025 arXiv | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://pku-epic.github.io/NavFoM-Web/) |
| 2025 | **[Uni-NaVid: A Video-based Vision-Language-Action Model for Unifying Embodied Navigation Tasks](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06224)** | 2025 RSS | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/PKU-EPIC/Uni-NaVid) |

#### Computational Reuse and Acceleration
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                            | Venue      | Resources |
| ---: | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- |
| 2026 | **[FreqCache: Accelerating Embodied VLN Models with Adaptive Frequency-Guided Token Caching](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24391)** | 2026 arXiv | —         |
| 2026 | **[VLN-Cache: Enabling Token Caching for VLN Models with Visual/Semantic Dynamics Awareness](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07080)** | 2026 arXiv | —         |
| 2026 | **[History-Conditioned Spatio-Temporal Visual Token Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06480)** | 2026 arXiv | —         |

## 🔮 Imaginative Prediction
### Spatial Imagination
#### Occupancy Prediction
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                                                                       | Venue      | Resources                                                                                                         |
| ---: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2026 | **[SPAN-Nav: Generalized Spatial Awareness for Versatile Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09163)**                       | 2026 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/MSunDYY/SparseOccVLA)                                                                                                                         |
| 2026 | **[SparseOccVLA: Bridging Occupancy and Vision-Language Models via Sparse Queries for Unified 4D Scene Understanding and Planning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06474)**                       | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                         |
| 2026 | **[SparseWorld: A Flexible, Adaptive, and Efficient 4D Occupancy World Model Powered by Sparse and Dynamic Queries](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/37347)**                                                                | 2026 AAAI | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://msundyy.github.io/SparseOccVLA/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/MSunDYY/SparseWorld)                                                                                              |
| 2025 | **[Occ-llm: Enhancing autonomous driving with occupancy-based large language models](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11127665/)**                                                                | 2025 ICRA |                   —                 |
| 2024 | **[Occllama: An Occupancy-Language-Action Generative World Model for Autonomous Driving](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03272)**                                                                | 2024 arXiv | —                                                                                                                 |
| 2023 | **[PEANUT: Predicting and Navigating to Unseen Targets](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2023/html/Zhai_PEANUT_Predicting_and_Navigating_to_Unseen_Targets_ICCV_2023_paper.html)** | 2023 ICCV  | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/ajzhai/PEANUT) |

#### View Completion
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Venue                | Resources                                                                                                                |
| ---: | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 2026 | **[MapDream: Task-Driven Map Learning for Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00222)**                                                                                                                                      | 2026 arXiv           | —                                                                                                                        |
| 2026 | **[MonoDream: Monocular Vision-Language Navigation with Panoramic Dreaming](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02549)**                                                                                                                                | 2026 AAAI           | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://horizonrobotics.github.io/robot_lab/monodream/)                                                                                                                        |
| 2025 | **[PanoGen++: Domain-Adapted Text-Guided Panoramic Environment Generation for Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09938)**                                                                                              | 2025 Neural Networks | —                                                                                                                        |
| 2024 | **[Imagine Before Go: Self-Supervised Generative Map for Object Goal Navigation](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2024/html/Zhang_Imagine_Before_Go_Self-Supervised_Generative_Map_for_Object_Goal_Navigation_CVPR_2024_paper.html)** | 2024 CVPR            | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/sx-zhang/SGM)         |
| 2023 | **[PanoGen: Text-Conditioned Panoramic Environment Generation for Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.19195)**                                                                                                          | 2023 NeurIPS         | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/jialuli-luka/PanoGen) |

#### 3D Representation
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | Venue      | Resources |
| ---: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- |
| 2026 | **[GSMem: 3D Gaussian Splatting as Persistent Spatial Memory for Zero-Shot Embodied Exploration and Reasoning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19137)**                | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                         |
| 2026 | **[ThinkMatter: Panoramic-Aware Instructional Semantics for Monocular Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2026.3652003)**                                                                                                                   | 2026 TIP   | —         |
| 2025 | **[monoVLN: Bridging the Observation Gap between Monocular and Panoramic Vision and Language Navigation](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2025/html/Lu_monoVLN_Bridging_the_Observation_Gap_between_Monocular_and_Panoramic_Vision_ICCV_2025_paper.html)** | 2025 ICCV  | —         |
| 2024 | **[UnitedVLN: Generalizable Gaussian Splatting for Continuous Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16053)**                                                                                                                                       | 2024 arXiv | —         |

### Temporal Imagination
#### Pixel Level
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Venue      | Resources |
| ---: | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- |
| 2026 | **[NavDreamer: Video Models as Zero-Shot 3D Navigators](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09765)**                                                                                                                                            | 2026 arXiv | —         |
| 2026 | **[Sparse Video Generation Propels Real-World Beyond-the-View Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05827)**                                                                                                          | 2026 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/OpenDriveLab/SparseVideoNav)        |
| 2025 | **[AstraNav-World: World Model for Foresight Control and Consistency](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.21714)**                                                                                                                              | 2025 arXiv | —         |
| 2025 | **[VISTAv2: World Imagination for Indoor Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.00041)**                                                                                                                           | 2025 arXiv | —         |
| 2025 | **[DreamNav: A Trajectory-Based Imaginative Framework for Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11197)**                                                                                                | 2025 arXiv | —         |
| 2025 | **[VISTA: Generative Visual Imagination for Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07868)**                                                                                                                        | 2025 arXiv | —         |
| 2025 | **[Navigation World Models](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2025/html/Bar_Navigation_World_Models_CVPR_2025_paper.html)**                                                                                                    | 2025 CVPR  | —         |
| 2025 | **[Do Visual Imaginations Improve Vision-and-Language Navigation Agents?](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2025/html/Perincherry_Do_Visual_Imaginations_Improve_Vision-and-Language_Navigation_Agents_CVPR_2025_paper.html)** | 2025 CVPR  | —         |
| 2021 | **[PathDreamer: A World Model for Indoor Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08756)**                                                                                                                                               | 2021 ICCV  | —         |

#### Feature Level
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                                           | Venue      | Resources                                                                                                                |
| ---: | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 2026 | **[Towards Dual-Brain Minimal Sufficient Representation for Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23181)**                  | 2026 arXiv |      —      |
| 2026 | **[NavWM: A Unified Navigation World Model for Foresight-Driven Planning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24101)**                  | 2026 ECCV |      —      |
| 2026 | **[WAM-Nav: Asymmetric Latent World-Action Modeling for Unified Visual Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04907)**                  | 2026 arXiv |      —      |
| 2026 | **[WorldVLN: Autoregressive World Action Model for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15964)**                  | 2026 arXiv |  [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://embodiedcity.github.io/WorldVLN/)      [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/EmbodiedCity/WorldVLN.code)          |
| 2026 | **[LatentPilot: Scene-Aware Vision-and-Language Navigation by Dreaming Ahead with Latent Visual Reasoning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29165)**                  | 2026 arXiv |  [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://abdd.top/latentpilot/)      [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/oceanhao/latentpilot)          |
| 2026 | **[PROSPECT: Unified Streaming Vision-Language Navigation via Semantic-Spatial Fusion and Latent Predictive Representation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03739)** | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                        |
| 2026 | **[FantasyVLN: Unified Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13976)**                                | 2026 arXiv |  [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://fantasy-amap.github.io/fantasy-vln/)  [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/Fantasy-AMAP/fantasy-vln)                                                                                                                      |
| 2026 | **[MonoDream: Monocular Vision-Language Navigation with Panoramic Dreaming](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02549)**                                                                                                                                | 2026 AAAI           | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://horizonrobotics.github.io/robot_lab/monodream/)                                                                                                                        |
| 2025 | **[NavForesee: A Unified Vision-Language World Model for Hierarchical Planning and Dual-Horizon Navigation Prediction](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01550)**      | 2025 arXiv | —                                                                                                                        |
| 2025 | **[NavMorph: A Self-Evolving World Model for Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23468)**                     | 2025 NeurlPS | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/Feliciaxyao/NavMorph) |

### Inverse Dynamics Modeling and Causality
#### Inverse Dynamics
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                | Venue      | Resources                                                                                                               |
| ---: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2026 | **[FutureNav: Unified World-Action Modeling for Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.30367)**                        | 2026 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/linglingxiansen/FutureNav) [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://linglingxiansen.github.io/FutureNav/) |
| 2026 | **[SpaAct: Spatially-Activated Transition Learning with Curriculum Adaptation for Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27620)**                                                                                                          | 2026 arXiv | —  |
| 2026 | **[Sparse Video Generation Propels Real-World Beyond-the-View Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05827)**                                                                                                          | 2026 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/OpenDriveLab/SparseVideoNav)        |
| 2026 | **[LatentPilot: Scene-Aware Vision-and-Language Navigation by Dreaming Ahead with Latent Visual Reasoning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29165)**                  | 2026 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/oceanhao/latentpilot) [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://abdd.top/latentpilot/)                |
| 2026 | **[ImagiNav: Scalable Embodied Navigation via Generative Visual Prediction and Inverse Dynamics](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13833)** | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                       |
| 2026 | **[NaVIDA: Vision-Language Navigation with Inverse Dynamics Augmentation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18188)**                        | 2026 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/waynechu1021/NAVIDA) |

#### Causal Learning
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                                                                      | Venue      | Resources                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| ---: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2025 | **[CAST: Counterfactual Labels Improve Instruction Following in Vision-Language-Action Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13446)**                                                         | 2025 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/catglossop/CAST) [![Data](https://img.shields.io/badge/Data-FFD21E?logo=huggingface&logoColor=000)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/catglossop/CAST-dataset) |
| 2025 | **[CVLN-Think: Causal Inference with Counterfactual Style Adaptation for Continuous Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11247004)**                     | 2025 IROS  | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| 2024 | **[Causality-based cross-modal representation learning for vision-and-language navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03405)**                                                             | 2024 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| 2024 | **[Vision-and-Language Navigation via Causal Learning](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2024/html/Wang_Vision-and-Language_Navigation_via_Causal_Learning_CVPR_2024_paper.html)** | 2024 CVPR  | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/CrystalSixone/VLN-GOAT)                                                           |
| 2022 | **[Counterfactual Cycle-Consistent Learning for Instruction Following and Generation in Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.16586)**                                    | 2022 CVPR  | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/HanqingWangAI/CCC-VLN)                                                                                                                            |

## 🎯 Decision Planning
### Structured Decision
#### Instruction Decomposition
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                                   | Venue      | Resources |
| ---: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- |
| 2025 | **[GC-VLN: Instruction as graph constraints for training-free vision-and-language navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10454)**                       | 2025 arXiv | —         |
| 2025 | **[Constraint-aware zero-shot vision-language navigation in continuous environments](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10137)**                                | 2025 TPAMI | —         |
| 2024 | **[Boosting efficient reinforcement learning for vision-and-language navigation with open-sourced llm](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10777561)** | 2024 RA-L  | —         |

#### Sub-Goal Formulation
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                                                        | Venue        | Resources                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| ---: | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2026 | **[Traj-VLN: Learning Pixel-Space Interaction via Autoregressive Trajectory Generation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10744)**                              | 2026 arXiv   | — |
| 2026 | **[Goal2Pixel: Grounding Goals to Pixels for Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01621)**                              | 2026 arXiv   | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://baobao0926.github.io/Goal2Pixel/)  |
| 2026 | **[Ground Slow, Move Fast: A Dual-System Foundation Model for Generalizable Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08186)**                              | 2026 ICLR   | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://dualvln.github.io/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/InternRobotics/InternNav) |
| 2025 | **[Landmark-Guided Knowledge for Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25655)**                                                                         | 2025 ICIC    | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| 2025 | **[SmartWay: Enhanced Waypoint Prediction and Backtracking for Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10069)**                                 | 2025 IROS    | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| 2025 | **[Affordances-oriented planning using foundation models for continuous vision-language navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05890)**                                      | 2025 AAAI    | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://chen-judge.github.io/AO-Planner/)                                                                                                                                              |
| 2025 | **[Hierarchical semantic-augmented navigation: Optimal transport and graph-driven reasoning for vision-language navigation](https://neurips.cc/virtual/2025/poster/115108)** | 2025 NeurIPS | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| 2023 | **[GridMM: Grid Memory Map for Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12907)**                                                                           | 2023 ICCV    | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/MrZihan/GridMM)                                                                                                                                                                 |

#### Navigation Progress Estimation
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                | Venue      | Resources                                                                                                                          |
| ---: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2026 | **[From Routes to Steps: Separating Semantic Progress from Local Execution in Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03143)**                   | 2026 arXiv | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://sisyphus-hxy.github.io/Route2Step/)                                 |
| 2025 | **[Progress-Think: Semantic Progress Reasoning for Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17097)**                   | 2025 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                  |
| 2024 | **[PASTS: Progress-Aware Spatio-Temporal Transformer Speaker for Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11918)** | 2024 EAAI  | —                                                                                                                                  |
| 2022 | **[One step at a time: Long-horizon vision-and-language navigation with milestones](https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07028)**              | 2022 CVPR  | —                                                                                                                                  |
| 2020 | **[Vision-Language Navigation with Self-Supervised Auxiliary Reasoning Tasks](https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07883)**                    | 2020 CVPR  | —                                                                                                                                  |
| 2019 | **[The regretful agent: Heuristic-aided navigation through progress estimation](https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01602)**                  | 2019 CVPR  | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/chihyaoma/regretful-agent)      |
| 2019 | **[Self-monitoring navigation agent via auxiliary progress estimation](https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03035)**                           | 2019 ICLR  | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/chihyaoma/selfmonitoring-agent) |

### Reasoning-based Decision
#### LLM as External Reasoner
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                              | Venue           | Resources                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| ---: | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2026 | **[Stop Wandering: Efficient Vision-Language Navigation via Metacognitive Reasoning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02318)**                          | 2026 arXiv      | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| 2026 | **[TagaVLM: Topology-Aware Global Action Reasoning for Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02972)**                           | 2026 arXiv      | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| 2026 | **[ReasonNavi: Human-Inspired Global Map Reasoning for Zero-Shot Embodied Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15864)**                          | 2026 arXiv      | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://reasonnavi.github.io/)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| 2026 | **[DV-VLN: Dual Verification for Reliable LLM-Based Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18492)**                          | 2026 arXiv      | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| 2026 | **[Towards Open Environments and Instructions: General Vision-Language Navigation via Fast-Slow Interactive Reasoning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09111)** | 2026 arXiv      | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| 2025 | **[GeoNav: Empowering MLLMs with Explicit Geospatial Reasoning Abilities for Language-Goal Aerial Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09587)**  | 2025 arXiv      | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| 2025 | **[SpatialGPT: Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation via Spatial CoT over Structured Spatial Memory](https://doi.org/10.1145/3748636.3762753)** | 2025 SIGSPATIAL | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| 2024 | **[End-to-end navigation with vision language models: Transforming spatial reasoning into question-answering](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05755)**  | 2024 arXiv      | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
| 2024 | **[NavGPT-2: Unleashing Navigational Reasoning Capability for Large Vision-Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12366)**                    | 2024 ECCV       | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/GengzeZhou/NavGPT-2) [![Data](https://img.shields.io/badge/Data-FFD21E?logo=huggingface&logoColor=000)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ZGZzz/NavGPT-R2R) [![Instruct](https://img.shields.io/badge/Instruct-FFD21E?logo=huggingface&logoColor=000)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ZGZzz/NavGPT-Instruct) |
| 2024 | **[InstructNav: Zero-Shot System for Generic Instruction Navigation in Unexplored Environment](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04882)**                 | 2024 arXiv      | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/LYX0501/InstructNav)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| 2024 | **[NavGPT: Explicit Reasoning in Vision-and-Language Navigation with Large Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16986)**                    | 2024 AAAI       | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/GengzeZhou/NavGPT)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |

#### Integrated Perception-Reasoning-Action Model
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                 | Venue      | Resources                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| ---: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2026 | **[ReflectVLN: Training Vision-Language Navigation Agents with Reflective Reasoning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12680)**                            | 2026 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/AIprogrammer/ReflectVLN)                                         |
| 2026 | **[AwareVLN: Reasoning with Self-awareness for Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22816)**                            | 2026 CVPR | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://gwxuan.github.io/AwareVLN/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/GWxuan/AwareVLN)                                         |
| 2026 | **[A Deployable Embodied Vision-Language Navigation System with Hierarchical Cognition and Context-Aware Exploration](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21363)** | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| 2026 | **[AsyncShield: A Plug-and-Play Edge Adapter for Asynchronous Cloud-based VLA Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24086)** | 2026 arXiv | — |
| 2026 | **[AURA: Multimodal Shared Autonomy for Real-World Urban Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01659)** | 2026 arXiv | — |
| 2026 | **[HiRO-Nav: Hybrid Reasoning Enables Efficient Embodied Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08232)**                              | 2026 arXiv | — |
| 2026 | **[AgentVLN: Towards Agentic Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17670)**                                      | 2026 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/Allenxinn/AgentVLN)                                                                                                                                      |
| 2026 | **[EmergeNav: Structured Embodied Inference for Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16947)** | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| 2026 | **[ABot-N0: Technical Report on the VLA Foundation Model for Versatile Embodied Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11598)**       | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| 2026 | **[VLingNav: Embodied Navigation with Adaptive Reasoning and Visual-Assisted Linguistic Memory](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08665)**   | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| 2025 | **[D3D-VLP: Dynamic 3D Vision-Language-Planning Model for Embodied Grounding and Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12622)**      | 2025 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| 2025 | **[MobileVLA-R1: Reinforcing Vision-Language-Action for Mobile Robots](https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17889)**                            | 2025 arXiv | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://aigeeksgroup.github.io/MobileVLA-R1/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/AIGeeksGroup/MobileVLA-R1)                                         |
| 2025 | **[CompassNav: Steering from Path Imitation to Decision Understanding in Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10154)**              | 2025 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| 2025 | **[AdaNav: Adaptive Reasoning with Uncertainty for Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24387)**                    | 2025 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/xinding-sys/AdaNav)                                                                                                                                      |
| 2025 | **[Nav-r1: Reasoning and navigation in embodied scenes](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10884)**                                           | 2025 arXiv | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://aigeeksgroup.github.io/Nav-R1/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/AIGeeksGroup/Nav-R1) |
| 2025 | **[OctoNav: Towards Generalist Embodied Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09839)**                                               | 2025 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| 2025 | **[Aux-Think: Exploring Reasoning Strategies for Data-Efficient Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11886)**       | 2025 NeurlPS | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://horizonrobotics.github.io/robot_lab/aux-think/index.html) [![Data](https://img.shields.io/badge/Data-FFD21E?logo=huggingface&logoColor=000)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/HorizonRobotics/Aux-Think)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| 2025 | **[NavCoT: Boosting LLM-based Vision-and-Language Navigation via Learning Disentangled Reasoning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07376)** | 2025 TPAMI | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |

#### Predictive Reasoning Model
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                  | Venue      | Resources |
| ---: | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- |
| 2026 | **[FantasyVLN: Unified Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13976)**                                | 2026 arXiv |  [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://fantasy-amap.github.io/fantasy-vln/)  [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/Fantasy-AMAP/fantasy-vln)                                                                                                                      |
| 2025 | **[NavForesee: A Unified Vision-Language World Model for Hierarchical Planning and Dual-Horizon Navigation Prediction](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01550)**      | 2025 arXiv | —                                                                                                                        |
| 2026 | **[WorldMAP: Bootstrapping Vision-Language Navigation Trajectory Prediction with Generative World Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07957)** | 2026 arXiv | —         |
| 2025 | **[ImagineNav++: Prompting Vision-Language Models as Embodied Navigator through Scene Imagination](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17435)** | 2025 arXiv | —         |

### Hierarchical Decision
#### High-Level System
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                   | Venue      | Resources |
| ---: | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- |
| 2026 | **[LookasideVLN: Direction-Aware Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17190)**                            | 2026 arXiv | —         |
| 2026 | **[HTNav: A Hybrid Navigation Framework with Tiered Structure for Urban Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08883)** | 2026 arXiv | —         |
| 2026 | **[FloorPlan-VLN: A New Paradigm for Floor Plan Guided Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17437)**                 | 2026 arXiv | —         |
| 2026 | **[OpenFrontier: General Navigation with Visual-Language Grounded Frontiers](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05377)**                        | 2026 arXiv | —         |
| 2024 | **[VLFM: Vision-Language Frontier Maps for Zero-Shot Semantic Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03275)**                           | 2024 ICRA  | —         |
| 2024 | **[ETPNav: Evolving Topological Planning for Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03047)** | 2024 TPAMI | —         |
| 2022 | **[Think Global, Act Local: Dual-Scale Graph Transformer for Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11742)**        | 2022 CVPR  | —         |

#### Low-Level System
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                                        | Venue      | Resources                                                                                                                           |
| ---: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2026 | **[X-NavDP: Generalizing Navigation Diffusion Policy to Novel Behavior and Embodiments with Group Q-score Reweighted Matching](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28560)**       | 2026 arXiv | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://yty-sky.github.io/x-navdp-project-page/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/InternRobotics/NavDP/tree/master/baselines/x-navdp)                                                                                                                        |
| 2026 | **[WAM-Nav: Asymmetric Latent World-Action Modeling for Unified Visual Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04907)**                  | 2026 arXiv |      —      |
| 2026 | **[NavDP: Learning sim-to-real navigation diffusion policy with privileged information guidance](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08712)**       | 2026 ICRA | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/InternRobotics/NavDP)                                                                                                                        |
| 2025 | **[LoGoPlanner: Localization Grounded Navigation Policy with Metric-aware Visual Geometry](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19629)**                               | 2025 arXiv | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://steinate.github.io/logoplanner.github.io/)   |
| 2024 | **[NoMaD: Goal Masked Diffusion Policies for Navigation and Exploration](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07896)**                                                 | 2024 ICRA  | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/robodhruv/visualnav-transformer) |
| 2024 | **[ViPlanner: Visual Semantic Imperative Learning for Local Navigation](https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/722589)**                | 2024 ICRA  | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/leggedrobotics/viplanner)        |
| 2023 | **[iPlanner: Imperative Path Planning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11434)**                                                                                   | 2023 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/leggedrobotics/iPlanner)         |
| 2022 | **[Learning Forward Dynamics Model and Informed Trajectory Sampler for Safe Quadruped Navigation](https://roboticsconference.org/2022/program/papers/069/)** | 2022 RSS   | —                                                                                                                                   |
| 2020 | **[DD-PPO: Learning Near-Perfect PointGoal Navigators from 2.5 Billion Frames](https://openreview.net/forum?id=H1gX8C4YPr)**                                 | 2020 ICLR  | —                                                                                                                                   |

#### Hybrid Architecture
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                                         | Venue      | Resources |
| ---: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- |
| 2026 | **[SEDualVLN: A Spatially-Enhanced Dual-System for Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17249)**                              | 2026 arXiv   | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://kim-os.github.io/SEDualVLN/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/kim-os/SEDualVLN) |
| 2026 | **[FineCog-Nav: Integrating Fine-grained Cognitive Modules for Zero-shot Multimodal UAV Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16298)**                      | 2026 arXiv | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://smartdianlab.github.io/projects-FineCogNav/) |
| 2026 | **[TIC-VLA: A Think-in-Control Vision-Language-Action Model for Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02459)**                 | 2026 arXiv | —         |
| 2026 | **[Ground Slow, Move Fast: A Dual-System Foundation Model for Generalizable Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08186)**                              | 2026 ICLR   | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://dualvln.github.io/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/InternRobotics/InternNav) |
| 2026 | **[OmniNav: A Unified Framework for Prospective Exploration and Visual-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25687)**                               | 2026 ICLR | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://astra-amap.github.io/omninav.github.io/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/amap-cvlab/OmniNav)          |
| 2025 | **[LaViRA: Language-Vision-Robot Actions Translation for Zero-Shot Vision Language Navigation in Continuous Environments](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19655)** | 2025 arXiv | —         |
| 2025 | **[Breaking down and building up: Mixture of skill-based vision-and-language navigation agents](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07642)**                           | 2025 arXiv | —         |
| 2025 | **[FlexVLN: Flexible Adaptation for Diverse Vision-and-Language Navigation Tasks](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13966)**                                         | 2025 arXiv | —         |
| 2025 | **[InternVLA-N1: An Open Dual-System Navigation Foundation Model with Learned Latent Plans](https://internrobotics.github.io/internvla-n1.github.io/)**       | 2025 arXiv | —         |

## ⚠️ Reflection from Error
### Sources and Taxonomy of Errors in VLN
#### Instruction Errors
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                            | Venue      | Resources                                                                                                              |
| ---: | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2026 | **[VLN-NF: Feasibility-Aware Vision-and-Language Navigation with False-Premise Instructions](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10533)** | 2026 arXiv | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://vln-nf.github.io/) |
| 2024 | **[Mind the error! detection and localization of instruction errors in vision-and-language navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10700)**                                                               | 2024 IROS  | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://intelligolabs.github.io/R2RIE-CE/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/intelligolabs/R2RIE-CE)                        |

#### Perceptual Errors
- Covered by papers already listed above.

#### Planning and Decision Errors
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                           | Venue       | Resources |
| ---: | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | --------- |
| 2026 | **[Where Did It Go Wrong? Capability-Oriented Failure Attribution for Vision-and-Language Navigation Agents](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25161)** | 2026 arXiv  | —         |

### Error Prevention
#### Prevent Instruction Errors
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                           | Venue       | Resources |
| ---: | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | --------- |
| 2025 | **[Seeing with Partial Certainty: Conformal Prediction for Robotic Scene Recognition in Built Environments](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04947)** | 2025 arXiv  | —         |
| 2025 | **[Collaborative Instance Object Navigation: Leveraging Uncertainty-Awareness to Minimize Human-Agent Dialogues](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04947)** | 2025 ICCV  | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://intelligolabs.github.io/CoIN/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/intelligolabs/CoIN) [![Data](https://img.shields.io/badge/Data-FFD21E?logo=huggingface&logoColor=000)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ftaioli/CoIN-Bench)        |
| 2024 | **[I2EDL: Interactive Instruction Error Detection and Localization](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05080)**                                         | 2024 RO-MAN | —         |

#### Prevent Perception Errors
- Covered by papers already listed above.

#### Prevent Planning and Decision Errors
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                    | Venue      | Resources                                                                                                                 |
| ---: | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2026 | **[SeqWalker: Sequential-Horizon Vision-and-Language Navigation with Hierarchical Planning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04699)**          | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                         |
| 2026 | **[EvolveNav: Empowering LLM-Based Vision-Language Navigation via Self-Improving Embodied Reasoning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01551)** | 2026 TPAMI | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/expectorlin/EvolveNav) |

### Learn From Error
#### Distribution Alignment
| Year | Paper                                                                                       | Venue        | Resources |
| ---: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | --------- |
| 2024 | **[Vision-Language Navigation with Energy-Based Policy](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14250)** | 2024 NeurIPS | —         |

#### DAgger-based
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                               | Venue      | Resources                                                                                                                  |
| ---: | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2026 | **[Joint On-and-Off Policy Learning for Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13461)**                  | 2026 arXiv |  [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://qingrongh.github.io/JOP-VLN/)       |
| 2026 | **[Path-level Hindsight Instructions for Semantic Exploration in Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01754)**                  | 2026 ECCV |    —     |
| 2026 | **[GN0: Toward a Unified Paradigm for Generation, Evaluation, and Policy Learning in Visual-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03682)**                  | 2026 arXiv |  [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://telehuman-gn0.github.io./)      [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/TeleHuman/GN0)   [![Model](https://img.shields.io/badge/Model-FFD21E?logo=huggingface&logoColor=000)](https://huggingface.co/TeleEmbodied/GN-BAE)       |
| 2026 | **[LatentPilot: Scene-Aware Vision-and-Language Navigation by Dreaming Ahead with Latent Visual Reasoning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29165)**                  | 2026 arXiv |  [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://abdd.top/latentpilot/)      [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/oceanhao/latentpilot)          |
| 2025 | **[Efficient-VLN: A Training-Efficient Vision-Language Navigation Model](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10310)**                                   | 2025 arXiv |     [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://lavi-lab.github.io/Efficient-VLN/)                                                                                                                     |
| 2025 | **[CorrectNav: Self-Correction Flywheel Empowers Vision-Language-Action Navigation Model](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10416)**       | 2025 arXiv | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://correctnav.github.io/) |
| 2025 | **[DAgger Diffusion Navigation: DAgger Boosted Diffusion Policy for Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09444)** | 2025 arXiv | —                                                                                                                          |

#### Exploration-based
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                                         | Venue      | Resources                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| ---: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 2026 | **[The Essence of Balance for Self-Improving Agents in Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19064)**                                   | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| 2026 | **[Let's Reward Step-by-Step: Step-Aware Contrastive Alignment for Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09740)** | 2026 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/lhy-zjut/SACA)                                                                                                                                            |
| 2026 | **[Trajectory-Diversity-Driven Robust Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15370)**                                                     | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| 2026 | **[Nipping the Drift in the Bud: Retrospective Rectification for Robust Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06356)**                       | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| 2026 | **[ActiveVLN: Towards Active Exploration via Multi-Turn RL in Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12618)** | 2026 ICRA |  [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/arvillion/ActiveVLN)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| 2025 | **[SeeNav-Agent: Enhancing Vision-Language Navigation with Visual Prompt and Step-Level Policy Optimization](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02631)**              | 2025 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/WzcTHU/SeeNav-Agent) [![Model](https://img.shields.io/badge/Model-FFD21E?logo=huggingface&logoColor=000)](https://huggingface.co/wangzc9865/SeeNav-Agent) |

#### Test-time Adaptation
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                                        | Venue      | Resources                                                                                                                      |
| ---: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 2026 | **[No Training, Better Flights: Test-Time Scaled VLMs for UAV Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19288)**                                             | 2026 arXiv  | —                                                                                                                              |
| 2026 | **[Turning Adaptation into Assets: Cross-Domain Bridging for Online Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23257)**                                             | 2026 ICML  | —                                                                                                                              |
| 2025 | **[Active Test-time Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06630)**                                                                          | 2025 arXiv | —                                                                                                                              |
| 2025 | **[Test-Time Adaptation for Online Vision-Language Navigation with Feedback-based Reinforcement Learning](https://proceedings.mlr.press/v267/kim25ad.html)** | 2025 ICML  | —                                                                                                                              |
| 2023 | **[Fast-slow test-time adaptation for online vision-and-language navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13209)**                                             | 2023 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/Feliciaxyao/ICML2024-FSTTA) |

## 🌐 Broader Navigation Literature

### Surveys and Evaluation
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                                 | Venue                                  | Resources                                                                                                                                            |
| ---: | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2026 | **[A Comprehensive Survey and Systematic Real-World Evaluation of Embodied Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.09792)**   | 2026 IEEE TASE                | —                                                                                                                                                    |
| 2026 | **[A comprehensive review of recent advancements in vision-and-language navigation](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10791-026-09977-z)**   | 2026 Discover Computing                | —                                                                                                                                                    |
| 2026 | **[Robot Navigation via Foundation Language Models: A Review](https://doi.org/10.1145/3802539)**                                                      | 2026 ACM Computing Surveys                          | —                                                                                                                                                    |
| 2026 | **[Vision-Language Navigation for Aerial Robots: Towards the Era of Large Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07705)**                          | 2026 arXiv                             | —                                                                                                                                                    |
| 2026 | **[Vision-and-Language Navigation for UAVs: Progress, Challenges, and a Research Roadmap](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.13654)**                          | 2026 arXiv                             | —                                                                                                                                                    |
| 2026 | **[Mini-BEHAVIOR-Gran: Revealing U-Shaped Effects of Instruction Granularity on Language-Guided Embodied Agents](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17019)** | 2026 arXiv | — |
| 2026 | **[NavTrust: Benchmarking Trustworthiness for Embodied Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19229)**                                                | 2026 arXiv                             | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://navtrust.github.io)                            |
| 2024 | **[Vision-and-language navigation today and tomorrow: A survey in the era of foundation models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07035)**                   | 2024 TMLR                             | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/zhangyuejoslin/VLN-Survey-with-Foundation-Models) |
| 2024 | **[Vision-language navigation: a survey and taxonomy](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-023-09217-1)**                                                   | 2024 Neural Computing and Applications | —                                                                                                                                                    |
| 2023 | **[Advances in embodied navigation using large language models: A survey](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00530)**                                         | 2023 arXiv                             | —                                                                                                                                                    |
| 2023 | **[A2Nav: Action-Aware Zero-Shot Robot Navigation by Exploiting Vision-and-Language Ability of Foundation Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07997)** | 2023 arXiv                             | —                                                                                                                                                    |
| 2023 | **[Visual language navigation: A survey and open challenges](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-022-10174-9)**                                            | 2023 Artificial Intelligence Review    | —                                                                                                                                                    |
| 2022 | **[Vision-and-language navigation: A survey of tasks, methods, and future directions](https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.524/)**                  | 2022 ACL                               | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/eric-ai-lab/awesome-vision-language-navigation)   |
| 2019 | **[General evaluation for instruction conditioned navigation using dynamic time warping](https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05446)**                          | 2019 arXiv                             | —                                                                                                                                                    |
| 2018 | **[On evaluation of embodied navigation agents](https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06757)**                                                                   | 2018 arXiv                             | —                                                                                                                                                    |

### General Navigation and Object Navigation
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                        | Venue      | Resources                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| ---: | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2026 | **[VoLN: Vision-Only Long-Horizon Navigation---Paradigm, Benchmark, and Method](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21400)**                  | 2026 arXiv |  [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://admire-ljb.github.io/VoLN-UAV/)  [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/Admire-ljb/VoLN-UAV)   [![Data](https://img.shields.io/badge/Data-FFD21E?logo=huggingface&logoColor=000)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Louj/VoLN-UAV-dataset)     |
| 2026 | **[ABot-N1: Toward a General Visual Language Navigation Foundation Model](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10383)**                  | 2026 arXiv |  [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://amap-cvlab.github.io/ABot-Navigation/ABot-N1/)       |
| 2026 | **[Qwen-RobotNav: A Scalable Navigation Model Designed for an Agentic Navigation System](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18112)**                  | 2026 arXiv |  [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-robotnav)       |
| 2026 | **[GN0: Toward a Unified Paradigm for Generation, Evaluation, and Policy Learning in Visual-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03682)**                  | 2026 arXiv |  [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://telehuman-gn0.github.io./)      [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/TeleHuman/GN0)   [![Model](https://img.shields.io/badge/Model-FFD21E?logo=huggingface&logoColor=000)](https://huggingface.co/TeleEmbodied/GN-BAE)       |
| 2026 | **[R2F: Repurposing Ray Frontiers for LLM-free Object Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08475)** | 2026 arXiv | — |
| 2026 | **[Hydra-Nav: Object Navigation via Adaptive Dual-Process Reasoning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09972)**                                     | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| 2026 | **[MerNav: A Highly Generalizable Memory-Execute-Review Framework for Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05467)**  | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| 2025 | **[RANGER: A Monocular Zero-Shot Semantic Navigation Framework through Contextual Adaptation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24212)**            | 2025 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| 2025 | **[SocialNav-Map: Dynamic Mapping with Human Trajectory Prediction for Zero-Shot Social Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12232)**      | 2025 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/linglingxiansen/SocialNav-Map)                                                                                                                                                  |
| 2025 | **[NavSpace: How Navigation Agents Follow Spatial Intelligence Instructions](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08173)**                             | 2025 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/TidalHarley/NavSpace)                                                                                                                                                           |
| 2025 | **[C-NAV: Towards self-evolving continual object navigation in open world](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20685)**                               | 2025 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| 2025 | **[3D-Mem: 3D Scene Memory for Embodied Exploration and Reasoning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.17735)**                                       | 2025 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| 2024 | **[TopV-Nav: Unlocking the top-view spatial reasoning potential of MLLM for zero-shot object navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16425)** | 2024 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| 2023 | **[ViNT: A foundation model for visual navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14846)**                                                       | 2023 arXiv | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://general-navigation-models.github.io/vint/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/robodhruv/visualnav-transformer) |
| 2022 | **[GNM: A general navigation model to drive any robot](https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03370)**                                                   | 2022 arXiv | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/robodhruv/visualnav-transformer)                                                                                                                                                |

### Embodied / VLA Context
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                    | Venue      | Resources                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| ---: | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2025 | **[MemoryVLA: Perceptual-Cognitive Memory in Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19236)** | 2025 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| 2024 | **[π0: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.24164)**                                | 2024 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| 2024 | **[OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09246)**                                             | 2024 arXiv | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://openvla.github.io/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/openvla/openvla) |

### Policies, Efficiency, and Applied Navigation
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                      | Venue      | Resources                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| ---: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2026 | **[Embodied Agents Take Control: Minimal-Interface Zero-Shot Agents Rival Industrial-Scale Policies in Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26148)**           | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| 2026 | **[P3Nav: End-to-End Perception, Prediction and Planning for Vision-and-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17459)**           | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| 2026 | **[Beyond Imitation: Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning for Adaptive Diffusion Navigation Policies](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12868)**    | 2026 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| 2026 | **[NavDP: Learning sim-to-real navigation diffusion policy with privileged information guidance](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08712)**       | 2026 ICRA | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/InternRobotics/NavDP)                                                                                                                        |
| 2025 | **[Nav-EE: Navigation-Guided Early Exiting for Efficient Vision-Language Models in Autonomous Driving](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01795)** | 2025 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| 2025 | **[OmniVLA: An omni-modal vision-language-action model for robot navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19480)**                           | 2025 arXiv | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://omnivla-nav.github.io/) [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/NHirose/OmniVLA) |
| 2025 | **[EgoPrune: Efficient token pruning for egomotion video reasoning in embodied agent](https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15428)**                  | 2025 arXiv | —                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |

## 🚀 Future Directions
Representative outlook papers explicitly discussed in the manuscript are listed below.

### Toward Action-Aware Policies
- Action grounding beyond static image-text reasoning.

### Toward Visual Predictive CoT
- Reasoning grounded in predicted visual futures.

### Towards Unified Visual Geometry Navigation Model
- Tighter coupling between geometry and policy learning.

### Towards Dynamic Environment
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                                                                                            | Venue       | Resources                                                                                                                                               |
| ---: | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2026 | **[Walk With Me: Long-Horizon Social Navigation for Human-Centric Outdoor Assistance](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26839)** | 2026 arXiv | — |
| 2025 | **[HA-VLN: A Benchmark for Human-Aware Navigation in Discrete-Continuous Environments with Dynamic Multi-Human Interactions, Real-World Validation, and an Open Leaderboard](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14229)** | 2025 arXiv  | [![Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/Code-181717?logo=github&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/F1y1113/HA-VLN)                                      |
| 2025 | **[From Cognition to Precognition: A Future-Aware Framework for Social Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13244)**                                                                                           | 2025 ICRA   | —                                                                                                                                                       |
| 2025 | **[VLN-ChEnv: Vision-language Navigation in Changeable Environments](https://doi.org/10.1145/3746027.3755202)**                                                                                                  | 2025 ACM MM | —                                                                                                                                                       |
| 2024 | **[VLM-Social-Nav: Socially Aware Robot Navigation through Scoring using Vision-Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00210)**                                                                             | 2024 RA-L   | [![Project](https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-4285F4?logo=googlechrome&logoColor=white)](https://jingliangc.github.io/social_navigation/social_vlm/) |

### Towards Collaborative VLN
| Year | Paper                                                                                                                                                                          | Venue        | Resources |
| ---: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------ | --------- |
| 2026 | **[Benchmarking Interaction, Beyond Policy: a Reproducible Benchmark for Collaborative Instance Object Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00265)** | 2026 arXiv | — |
| 2026 | **[DeCoNav: Dialog enhanced Long-Horizon Collaborative Vision-Language Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12486)** | 2026 arXiv | — |
| 2026 | **[MA-CoNav: A Master-Slave Multi-Agent Framework with Hierarchical Collaboration and Dual-Level Reflection for Long-Horizon Embodied VLN](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03024)** | 2026 arXiv   | —         |
| 2026 | **[FSUNav: A Cerebrum-Cerebellum Architecture for Fast, Safe, and Universal Zero-Shot Goal-Oriented Navigation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.03139)** | 2026 arXiv | — |
| 2026 | **[CA-VLN: Collaborative Agents in MLLM-Powered Visual-Language Navigation](https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/26/4/1254)**                                                        | 2026 Sensors | —         |
| 2025 | **[Enhancing Multi-Robot Semantic Navigation through Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Score Collaboration](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18292)**                                      | 2025 AAAI    | —         |
| 2023 | **[Co-NavGPT: Multi-Robot Cooperative Visual Semantic Navigation Using Vision Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07937)**                                             | 2023 arXiv   | —         |

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