arxivcs.ROcs.AI2026-07-01
DART-VLN: Test-Time Memory Decay and Anti-Loop Regularization for Discrete Vision-Language Navigation
Shaoheng Zhang, Zhichen Li, Jie Mei
Memory-based agents for discrete vision-language navigation (VLN) operate under partial observability and can exhibit systematic inference-time failures even with strong pretrained backbones. We focus on two recurring problems: stale historical evidence during memory readout and…