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
23 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICLR 2026Building spatial world models from sparse transitional episodic memories
- ICLR 2026CE-Nav: Flow-Guided Reinforcement Refinement for Cross-Embodiment Local Navigation
- ICLR 2026CitySeeker: How Do VLMs Explore Embodied Urban Navigation with Implicit Human Needs?
- ICLR 2026Following the Navigation: Enhancing Small Language Models Contextual Reasoning with LLM Guidance
- ICLR 2026From Seeing to Experiencing: Scaling Navigation Foundation Models with Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2026GRL-SNAM: Geometric Reinforcement Learning with Differential Hamiltonians for Navigation and Mapping in Unknown Environments
- ICLR 2026Ground Slow, Move Fast: A Dual-System Foundation Model for Generalizable Vision-Language Navigation
- ICLR 2026JanusVLN: Decoupling Semantics and Spatiality with Dual Implicit Memory for Vision-Language Navigation
- ICLR 2026Lifelong Embodied Navigation Learning
- ICLR 2026OmniNav: A Unified Framework for Prospective Exploration and Visual-Language Navigation
- ICLR 2026WARC-Bench: Web Archive based Benchmark for GUI Subtask Executions
- ICLR 2025Bootstrapping Language-Guided Navigation Learning with Self-Refining Data Flywheel
- ICLR 2025Efficient Active Imitation Learning with Random Network Distillation
- ICLR 2025Navigation-Guided Sparse Scene Representation for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
- ICLR 2025Towards Realistic UAV Vision-Language Navigation: Platform, Benchmark, and Methodology
- ICLR 2024End-to-End (Instance)-Image Goal Navigation through Correspondence as an Emergent Phenomenon
- ICLR 2024Learning with a Mole: Transferable latent spatial representations for navigation without reconstruction
- ICLR 2024Multimodal Web Navigation with Instruction-Finetuned Foundation Models
- ICLR 2024Selective Visual Representations Improve Convergence and Generalization for Embodied AI
- ICLR 2023DENSE RGB SLAM WITH NEURAL IMPLICIT MAPS
- ICLR 2023Emergence of Maps in the Memories of Blind Navigation Agents
- ICLR 2023Learning Simultaneous Navigation and Construction in Grid Worlds
- ICLR 2023Moving Forward by Moving Backward: Embedding Action Impact over Action Semantics
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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.