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Ze-Rui Li

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Preprint Sep 2026

NavHarness: Towards Lifelong Embodied Navigation

Frontier models can now perform well on individual embodied navigation tasks through multi-round multimodal reasoning with simple tools. Across successive tasks, however, an agent must also rely on an evolving map and earlier search records, both of which may be incomplete or conflict with new observations. We present...

Xun-Yi Zhao, Jian Zhou, Si-Hao Lin et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Sep 2026

Talk2Escape: Conversational Grounding for Vision-and-Language Navigation

Talk2Escape is introduced, a proactive and model-agnostic dialogue intervention framework that reframes navigation as a closed-loop interactive process and proves that proactive dialogue drastically improves navigation robustness in physical environments.

Ze-Rui Li, Si-Hao Lin, Yan-Yan Shao et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Sep 2026

VLM-MPPI: Grounding Natural Language in Behaviorally Diverse Trajectories for Aerial Navigation

A hierarchical UAV navigation framework that aligns natural-language intent with dynamically feasible flight behaviors in cluttered indoor environments is presented, and a parallelized ensemble of six behavior-conditioned Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) planners are employed.

Hanbing Zhang, Fang-Guo Zhao, Ze-Rui Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Nov 2025

Freeze, Share, Shrink: Rethinking the Action Backbone in Diffusion Policies

It is confirmed that, in modulation-conditioned diffusion policies, task adaptation can be routed entirely through the conditioning pathway, leaving a frozen, observation-free backbone that serves as a reusable trajectory prior, and a 5M-parameter MLP backbone matches or exceeds both the 244M U-Net and the transformer...

Jian Zhou, Si-Hao Lin, Shuai Fu et al. · 0 citations
Jul 2026

Embodied Agents Take Control: Minimal-Interface Zero-Shot Agents Rival Industrial-Scale Policies in Vision-and-Language Navigation

The results show that a general-purpose model can already achieve competitive embodied control without a navigation policy, and term this organization agentic embodied control: the reasoning model directly steers every action, keeping reasoning and control aligned.

Jian Zhou, Xun-Yi Zhao, Gengze Zhou et al. · 1 citation

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