Navigation papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Navigation went from 18 papers in 2023 to 44 in 2026, roughly 2.4x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Navigation work: 57 papers from 2023 to 2026, 48% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 3 in 2023 to 16 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Robotics and Embodied AI, it ranks #5 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Humanoid Control, is up 3.8x versus 2.4x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026LiteNav: Lightweight Map-free Outdoor Visual Navigation
• ICML 2026PSG-Nav: Probabilistic Scene Graph Navigation via Multiverse Decision Making
• ICLR 2026OmniNav: A Unified Framework for Prospective Exploration and Visual-Language Navigation
• CVPR 2026OctoNav Towards Generalist Embodied Navigation
• NeurIPS 2025DynaNav: Dynamic Feature and Layer Selection for Efficient Visual Navigation
• ICML 2025A Model of Place Field Reorganization During Reward Maximization
• ICLR 2025Bootstrapping Language-Guided Navigation Learning with Self-Refining Data Flywheel
• CVPR 2025CityWalker: Learning Embodied Urban Navigation from Web-Scale Videos
• NeurIPS 2024Human-Aware Vision-and-Language Navigation: Bridging Simulation to Reality with Dynamic Human Interactions
• ICML 2024Leveraging Attractor Dynamics in Spatial Navigation for Better Language Parsing
• ICLR 2024End-to-End (Instance)-Image Goal Navigation through Correspondence as an Emergent Phenomenon
• CVPR 2024Dual-View Visual Contextualization for Web Navigation
• NeurIPS 2023FGPrompt: Fine-grained Goal Prompting for Image-goal Navigation
• ICML 2023Multiple Thinking Achieving Meta-Ability Decoupling for Object Navigation
• ICLR 2023Moving Forward by Moving Backward: Embedding Action Impact over Action Semantics
• CVPR 20233D-Aware Object Goal Navigation via Simultaneous Exploration and Identification
• NeurIPS 2026The limbic navigation system as a hierarchical RNN
• ICML 2026SafeDec: Constrained Decoding for Safe Autoregressive Generalist Robot Navigation Policies
• ICLR 2026Following the Navigation: Enhancing Small Language Models Contextual Reasoning with LLM Guidance
• CVPR 2026STRNet Visual Navigation with Spatio-Temporal Representation through Dynamic Graph Aggregation

All Navigation papers

118 papers, page 2 of 3

51. CVPR 2025UniGoal: Towards Universal Zero-shot Goal-oriented Navigation
52. CVPR 2025WildGS-SLAM: Monocular Gaussian Splatting SLAM in Dynamic Environments
53. ICLR 2025Bootstrapping Language-Guided Navigation Learning with Self-Refining Data Flywheel
54. ICLR 2025Efficient Active Imitation Learning with Random Network Distillation
55. ICLR 2025Navigation-Guided Sparse Scene Representation for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
56. ICLR 2025Towards Realistic UAV Vision-Language Navigation: Platform, Benchmark, and Methodology
57. ICML 2025A Model of Place Field Reorganization During Reward Maximization
58. NeurIPS 2025C-NAV: Towards Self-Evolving Continual Object Navigation in Open World
59. NeurIPS 2025Distilling LLM Prior to Flow Model for Generalizable Agent’s Imagination in Object Goal Navigation
60. NeurIPS 2025DynaNav: Dynamic Feature and Layer Selection for Efficient Visual Navigation
61. NeurIPS 2025Fully Autonomous Neuromorphic Navigation and Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance
62. NeurIPS 2025Gradient Descent as Loss Landscape Navigation: a Normative Framework for Deriving Learning Rules
63. NeurIPS 2025Hierarchical Semantic-Augmented Navigation: Optimal Transport and Graph-Driven Reasoning for Vision-Language Navigation
64. NeurIPS 2025NavBench: Probing Multimodal Large Language Models for Embodied Navigation
65. NeurIPS 2025NFL-BA: Near-Field Light Bundle Adjustment for SLAM in Dynamic Lighting
66. NeurIPS 2025SDTagNet: Leveraging Text-Annotated Navigation Maps for Online HD Map Construction
67. NeurIPS 2025Seeing through Uncertainty: Robust Task-Oriented Optimization in Visual Navigation
68. NeurIPS 2025WeatherPrompt: Multi-modality Representation Learning for All-Weather Drone Visual Geo-Localization
69. CVPR 2024An Interactive Navigation Method with Effect-oriented Affordance
70. CVPR 2024Dual-View Visual Contextualization for Web Navigation
71. CVPR 2024Gaussian Splatting SLAM
72. CVPR 2024GOAT-Bench: A Benchmark for Multi-Modal Lifelong Navigation
73. CVPR 2024GS-SLAM: Dense Visual SLAM with 3D Gaussian Splatting
74. CVPR 2024Habitat Synthetic Scenes Dataset (HSSD-200): An Analysis of 3D Scene Scale and Realism Tradeoffs for ObjectGoal Navigation
75. CVPR 2024Implicit Event-RGBD Neural SLAM
76. CVPR 2024Instance-aware Exploration-Verification-Exploitation for Instance ImageGoal Navigation
77. CVPR 2024Lookahead Exploration with Neural Radiance Representation for Continuous Vision-Language Navigation
78. CVPR 2024MemoNav: Working Memory Model for Visual Navigation
79. CVPR 2024PLGSLAM: Progressive Neural Scene Represenation with Local to Global Bundle Adjustment
80. CVPR 2024RILA: Reflective and Imaginative Language Agent for Zero-Shot Semantic Audio-Visual Navigation
81. CVPR 2024SchurVINS: Schur Complement-Based Lightweight Visual Inertial Navigation System
82. CVPR 2024SPIN: Simultaneous Perception Interaction and Navigation
83. CVPR 2024Towards Learning a Generalist Model for Embodied Navigation
84. CVPR 2024Versatile Navigation Under Partial Observability via Value-guided Diffusion Policy
85. CVPR 2024Vision-and-Language Navigation via Causal Learning
86. CVPR 2024Volumetric Environment Representation for Vision-Language Navigation
87. ICLR 2024End-to-End (Instance)-Image Goal Navigation through Correspondence as an Emergent Phenomenon
88. ICLR 2024Learning with a Mole: Transferable latent spatial representations for navigation without reconstruction
89. ICLR 2024Multimodal Web Navigation with Instruction-Finetuned Foundation Models
90. ICLR 2024Selective Visual Representations Improve Convergence and Generalization for Embodied AI
91. ICML 2024DPN: Decoupling Partition and Navigation for Neural Solvers of Min-max Vehicle Routing Problems
92. ICML 2024Leveraging Attractor Dynamics in Spatial Navigation for Better Language Parsing
93. ICML 2024Towards an Understanding of Stepwise Inference in Transformers: A Synthetic Graph Navigation Model
94. ICML 2024VoroNav: Voronoi-based Zero-shot Object Navigation with Large Language Model
95. NeurIPS 2024Everyday Object Meets Vision-and-Language Navigation Agent via Backdoor
96. NeurIPS 2024Human-Aware Vision-and-Language Navigation: Bridging Simulation to Reality with Dynamic Human Interactions
97. NeurIPS 2024Learning World Models for Unconstrained Goal Navigation
98. NeurIPS 2024Personalized Instance-based Navigation Toward User-Specific Objects in Realistic Environments
99. NeurIPS 2024The motion planning neural circuit in goal-directed navigation as Lie group operator search
100. NeurIPS 2024Trajectory Diffusion for ObjectGoal Navigation

FAQ

How many Navigation papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

119 in total: 18 in 2023, 32 in 2024, 25 in 2025, 44 in 2026.

How many Navigation papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 9 Navigation papers, versus 11 the year before.

How many Navigation papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 11 Navigation papers, versus 4 the year before.

How many Navigation papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 2 Navigation papers, versus 1 the year before.

How many Navigation papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 22 Navigation papers, versus 9 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Navigation papers?

CVPR, with 57 papers from 2023 to 2026.