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A Topological Representation with Object-Path Graphs for Open-Vocabulary Instance Navigation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 21, 2026 · UTC

Vision-language navigation requires embodied agents to navigate environments using natural language instructions and visual observations. Existing approaches typically decompose navigation into sequential language-guided decisions or rely on online exploration without prior environmental knowledge. Scene graph representations offer compact semantic memory but remain decoupled from downstream navigation, which still depends on dense metric maps. To close this gap, we propose an object--path graph that unifies open-vocabulary semantic reasoning with topological navigation. The proposed represent

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