Navigation papers, 2023–2026
Visual navigation and SLAM
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 119 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 18 |
| 2024 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 32 |
| 2025 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 25 |
| 2026 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 22 | 44 |
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
21 papers, page 1 of 1
- CVPR 2026AwareVLN Reasoning with Self-awareness for Vision-Language Navigation
- CVPR 2026CapNav Benchmarking Vision Language Models on Capability-conditioned Indoor Navigation
- CVPR 2026DecoVLN Decoupling Observation Reasoning and Correction for Vision-and-Language Navigation
- CVPR 2026DROID-SLAM in the Wild
- CVPR 2026FloVerse Floor Plan-Guided Multi-Modal Navigation
- CVPR 2026GA-VLN Geometry-Aware BEV Representation for Efficient Vision-Language Navigation
- CVPR 2026Gallant Voxel Grid-based Humanoid Locomotion and Local-navigation across 3-D Constrained
- CVPR 2026HTNav A Hybrid Navigation Framework with Tiered Structure for Urban
- CVPR 2026Is your VLM Sky-Ready A Comprehensive Spatial Intelligence Benchmark for
- CVPR 2026LookasideVLN Direction-Aware Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation
- CVPR 2026Memory-Augmented Scene Understanding and Exploration for Open-World Aerial Object-Goal Navigation
- CVPR 2026Multi-Scale Gaussian-Language Map for Zero-shot Embodied Navigation and Reasoning
- CVPR 2026OctoNav Towards Generalist Embodied Navigation
- CVPR 2026Parse Search and Confirmation Training-Free Aerial Vision-and-Dialog Navigation with Chain-of-Thought
- CVPR 2026ProFocus Proactive Perception and Focused Reasoning in Vision-and-Language Navigation
- CVPR 2026Progress-Think Semantic Progress Reasoning for Vision-Language Navigation
- CVPR 2026SCE-SLAM Scale-Consistent Monocular SLAM via Scene Coordinate Embeddings
- CVPR 2026Semantic Audio-Visual Navigation in Continuous Environments
- CVPR 2026SGAD-SLAM Splatting Gaussians at Adjusted Depth for Better Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2026STRNet Visual Navigation with Spatio-Temporal Representation through Dynamic Graph Aggregation
- CVPR 2026Towards Open Environments and Instructions General Vision-Language Navigation via Fast-Slow
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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.