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New Traj-VLN method trains vision-language models for navigation in pixel space

Researchers have developed Traj-VLN, a novel approach for Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE). This method focuses on training Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to generate navigation trajectories directly in 2D pixel space, bypassing the need for explicit 3D geometric information which VLMs typically lack. The model predicts a sequence of pixel coordinates to guide an embodied agent through unseen environments based on linguistic instructions and historical observations. Experiments show that this pixel-space trajectory supervision significantly improves VLN performance, achieving state-of-the-art results with efficient resource utilization. AI

IMPACT This research could enhance embodied AI agents' ability to navigate complex environments by leveraging pixel-space interactions.

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New Traj-VLN method trains vision-language models for navigation in pixel space

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Changfei Fu, Guangcheng Chen, Wenjun Xu, Hong Zhang ·

    Traj-VLN: Learning Pixel-Space Interaction via Autoregressive Trajectory Generation

    arXiv:2607.10744v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benefiting from the powerful priors embedded in large-scale pre-training data and the emerging commonsense reasoning ability, large language models (LLMs) have shown unprecedented generalization capabilities in many research fields.…