Awesome Vision Language Navigation

A curated list for VLN.

VLM-based

Title	Year	Published	CODE
SocialNav: Training Human-Inspired Foundation Model for Socially-Aware Embodied Navigation	2025.11	Arxiv	Prject
Expand Your SCOPE: Semantic Cognition over Potential-Based Exploration for Embodied Visual Navigation	2025.11	Arxiv	Code
PanoNav: Mapless Zero-Shot Object Navigation with Panoramic Scene Parsing and Dynamic Memory	2025.11	Arxiv	-
MobileVLA-R1: Reinforcing Vision-Language-Action for Mobile Robots	2025.11	Arxiv	Code
InternVLA-N1: An Open Dual-System Vision-Language Navigation Foundation Model with Learned Latent Plans	2025.10	-	Code
Dream to Recall: Imagination-Guided Experience Retrieval for Memory-Persistent Vision-and-Language Navigation	2025.10	Arxiv	Code(coming soon)
VAMOS: A Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Model for Capability-Modulated and Steerable Navigation	2025.10	Arxiv	CodeGithub stars
CorrectNav: Self-Correction Flywheel Empowers Vision-Language-Action Navigation Model	2025.10	AAAI2026	-
NavQ: Learning a Q-Model for Foresighted Vision-and-Language Navigation	2025.10	-	Code
VLN-Zero: Rapid Exploration and Cache-Enabled Neurosymbolic Vision-Language Planning for Zero-Shot Transfer in Robot Navigation	2025.9	Arxiv	Code
StreamVLN: Streaming Vision-and-Language Navigation via SlowFast Context Modeling	2025.7	Arxiv	Code
VLN-R1: Vision-Language Navigation via Reinforcement Fine-Tuning	2025.1	Arxiv	Code
NaVILA: Legged Robot Vision-Language-Action Model for Navigation	2024.12	RSS2025	Prject

Map-based

Title	Year	Published	CODE
VLN-KHVR: Knowledge-and-History Aware Visual Representation for Continuous Vision-and-Language Navigation	2025.5	ICRA 2025	-
ETPNav: Evolving Topological Planning for Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments	2024.8	TPAMI 2024	Code