4 papers
Foresight: Iterative Reasoning About Clues that Matter for Navigation
Arthur Zhang, Carl Qi, Donne Su +3
Open-world mapless navigation from sparse language instructions requires resolving underspecified goals and inferring which environmental cues are relevant for reaching the goal. F…
AI-Assisted Peer Review at Scale: The AAAI-26 AI Review Pilot
Joydeep Biswas, Sheila Schoepp, Gautham Vasan +10
Scientific peer review faces mounting strain as submission volumes surge, making it increasingly difficult to sustain review quality, consistency, and timeliness. Recent advances i…
VENTURA: Adapting Image Diffusion Models for Unified Task Conditioned Navigation
Arthur Zhang, Xiangyun Meng, Luca Calliari +5
Robots must adapt to diverse human instructions and operate safely in unstructured, open-world environments. Recent Vision-Language models (VLMs) offer strong priors for grounding…
CREStE: Scalable Mapless Navigation with Internet Scale Priors and Counterfactual Guidance
Arthur Zhang, Harshit Sikchi, Amy Zhang +1
We introduce CREStE, a scalable learning-based mapless navigation framework to address the open-world generalization and robustness challenges of outdoor urban navigation. Key to a…