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Beyond Spatial Benchmarks: From Spatial Reasoning to Navigation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 24, 2026 · UTC

Does progress on spatial reasoning benchmarks translate into better navigation? Existing benchmarks test isolated inferences from images or videos, with little connection to downstream navigation. Our analysis reveals a gap between benchmark-oriented spatial specialization and navigation performance, and shows how aligning spatial supervision with navigation goals, phases, and decision learning improves navigation. Guided by these findings, we build \textsc{Spatial-Nav-100K} and fine-tune in two stages, \textit{i.e.} first learning a shared spatial-navigation foundation, and then specializing

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