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

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• 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

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1. CVPR 2026AwareVLN Reasoning with Self-awareness for Vision-Language Navigation
2. CVPR 2026CapNav Benchmarking Vision Language Models on Capability-conditioned Indoor Navigation
3. CVPR 2026DecoVLN Decoupling Observation Reasoning and Correction for Vision-and-Language Navigation
4. CVPR 2026DROID-SLAM in the Wild
5. CVPR 2026FloVerse Floor Plan-Guided Multi-Modal Navigation
6. CVPR 2026GA-VLN Geometry-Aware BEV Representation for Efficient Vision-Language Navigation
7. CVPR 2026Gallant Voxel Grid-based Humanoid Locomotion and Local-navigation across 3-D Constrained
8. CVPR 2026HTNav A Hybrid Navigation Framework with Tiered Structure for Urban
9. CVPR 2026Is your VLM Sky-Ready A Comprehensive Spatial Intelligence Benchmark for
10. CVPR 2026LookasideVLN Direction-Aware Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation
11. CVPR 2026Memory-Augmented Scene Understanding and Exploration for Open-World Aerial Object-Goal Navigation
12. CVPR 2026Multi-Scale Gaussian-Language Map for Zero-shot Embodied Navigation and Reasoning
13. CVPR 2026OctoNav Towards Generalist Embodied Navigation
14. CVPR 2026Parse Search and Confirmation Training-Free Aerial Vision-and-Dialog Navigation with Chain-of-Thought
15. CVPR 2026ProFocus Proactive Perception and Focused Reasoning in Vision-and-Language Navigation
16. CVPR 2026Progress-Think Semantic Progress Reasoning for Vision-Language Navigation
17. CVPR 2026SCE-SLAM Scale-Consistent Monocular SLAM via Scene Coordinate Embeddings
18. CVPR 2026Semantic Audio-Visual Navigation in Continuous Environments
19. CVPR 2026SGAD-SLAM Splatting Gaussians at Adjusted Depth for Better Radiance Fields
20. CVPR 2026STRNet Visual Navigation with Spatio-Temporal Representation through Dynamic Graph Aggregation
21. CVPR 2026Towards Open Environments and Instructions General Vision-Language Navigation via Fast-Slow
22. CVPR 2025CityWalker: Learning Embodied Urban Navigation from Web-Scale Videos
23. CVPR 2025Do Visual Imaginations Improve Vision-and-Language Navigation Agents?
24. CVPR 2025Navigation World Models
25. CVPR 2025Prior Does Matter: Visual Navigation via Denoising Diffusion Bridge Models
26. CVPR 2025Reasoning in Visual Navigation of End-to-end Trained Agents: A Dynamical Systems Approach
27. CVPR 2025RoboSense: Large-scale Dataset and Benchmark for Egocentric Robot Perception and Navigation in Crowded and Unstructured Environments
28. CVPR 2025Towards Long-Horizon Vision-Language Navigation: Platform, Benchmark and Method
29. CVPR 2025UniGoal: Towards Universal Zero-shot Goal-oriented Navigation
30. CVPR 2025WildGS-SLAM: Monocular Gaussian Splatting SLAM in Dynamic Environments
31. CVPR 2024An Interactive Navigation Method with Effect-oriented Affordance
32. CVPR 2024Dual-View Visual Contextualization for Web Navigation
33. CVPR 2024Gaussian Splatting SLAM
34. CVPR 2024GOAT-Bench: A Benchmark for Multi-Modal Lifelong Navigation
35. CVPR 2024GS-SLAM: Dense Visual SLAM with 3D Gaussian Splatting
36. CVPR 2024Habitat Synthetic Scenes Dataset (HSSD-200): An Analysis of 3D Scene Scale and Realism Tradeoffs for ObjectGoal Navigation
37. CVPR 2024Implicit Event-RGBD Neural SLAM
38. CVPR 2024Instance-aware Exploration-Verification-Exploitation for Instance ImageGoal Navigation
39. CVPR 2024Lookahead Exploration with Neural Radiance Representation for Continuous Vision-Language Navigation
40. CVPR 2024MemoNav: Working Memory Model for Visual Navigation
41. CVPR 2024PLGSLAM: Progressive Neural Scene Represenation with Local to Global Bundle Adjustment
42. CVPR 2024RILA: Reflective and Imaginative Language Agent for Zero-Shot Semantic Audio-Visual Navigation
43. CVPR 2024SchurVINS: Schur Complement-Based Lightweight Visual Inertial Navigation System
44. CVPR 2024SPIN: Simultaneous Perception Interaction and Navigation
45. CVPR 2024Towards Learning a Generalist Model for Embodied Navigation
46. CVPR 2024Versatile Navigation Under Partial Observability via Value-guided Diffusion Policy
47. CVPR 2024Vision-and-Language Navigation via Causal Learning
48. CVPR 2024Volumetric Environment Representation for Vision-Language Navigation
49. CVPR 20233D-Aware Object Goal Navigation via Simultaneous Exploration and Identification
50. CVPR 2023Behavioral Analysis of Vision-and-Language Navigation Agents

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.