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New CoFL-S framework enhances low-level action generation for robot navigation

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Researchers have introduced CoFL-S, a novel framework designed to improve low-level action generation for Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks. This approach predicts a language-conditioned flow field within the robot's local view, enabling the generation of continuous trajectories. CoFL-S was trained by converting existing VLN-CE episodes into frame-level supervision with aligned sub-instructions and action targets. The framework demonstrates superior performance compared to action-token and action-chunk baselines on a new continuous-time Habitat benchmark, and has shown effectiveness in real-world deployments. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more fluid and responsive robotic navigation systems by improving low-level action control.

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New CoFL-S framework enhances low-level action generation for robot navigation

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Haokun Liu, Zhaoqi Ma, Yicheng Chen, Wentao Zhang, Masaki Kitagawa, Zicen Xiong, Jinjie Li, Moju Zhao ·

    CoFL-S: Spatially Queryable Sector Flow Fields for Local Language-Conditioned Navigation

    arXiv:2607.02222v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation has increasingly emphasized high-level instruction reasoning, memory, global map construction, and instruction decomposition, while the low-level action representation remains comparatively underexplored…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Moju Zhao ·

    CoFL-S: Spatially Queryable Sector Flow Fields for Local Language-Conditioned Navigation

    Vision-Language Navigation has increasingly emphasized high-level instruction reasoning, memory, global map construction, and instruction decomposition, while the low-level action representation remains comparatively underexplored. We propose CoFL-S, a low-level vision-language-a…

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