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cs.RO2026

Think When It Matters: Conditional VLM Reasoning for Social Navigation with RL Policies

Ali Ahmadi, Hamed Rahimi, Adrien Jacquet Cretides +3

The paper presents HUMA, a hybrid system that combines a reactive reinforcement learning navigation policy with a conditional vision-language model to improve semantic and social r…