arxivcs.ROcs.AI2026-07-23
VoLN: Vision-Only Long-Horizon Navigation---Paradigm, Benchmark, and Method
Jiabin Lou, Haopeng Wang, Yuanshuai Wang, Xinyu Liu, Xuxin Lv, Yuxin Guo, et al.
Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) enables embodied agents to follow natural-language instructions. However, route-level instructions commonly encode spatial priors, such as orientation, distance, and layout, that are not explicitly available from onboard sensing at deployment…