Lifelong small-object navigation in changing object layouts: a benchmark and method

arXiv:2610.10125 · cs.RO, cs.CV · Submitted 2026-10-07 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-10-07

Updated: 2026-10-07

Terminology

• Benchmark — 24× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Embeddings — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 5× in this paper
• Aggregation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• CVF International Conference on Computer Vision — 4× in this paper
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation study — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation — 2× in this paper
• Success Rate — 2× in this paper
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Active Perception — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Embodied AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Historical Revisit — 1× in this paper
• International Conference on Advanced Robotics — 1× in this paper
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Visual Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Qwen-VL: A Versatile Vision-Language Model for Understanding, Localization, Text Reading, and Beyond
• Qwen3-VL Technical Report
• Searching in Space and Time: Unified Memory-Action Loops for Open-World Object Retrieval
• EvoMemNav: Efficient Self-Evolving Fine-Grained Memory for Zero-Shot Embodied Navigation
• Modeling Dynamic Environments with Scene Graph Memory
• LangMap: A Human-Verified Benchmark for Hierarchical Open-Vocabulary Goal Navigation

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