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

29 papers, page 1 of 1

1. NeurIPS 2026Drift-Resistant Navigation World Model with Anchored Epipolar Guidance
2. NeurIPS 2026FocusNav: Learning Task-directed Perception via Action-Aware Future Reconstruction in Vision-and-Language Navigation
3. NeurIPS 2026InfoNav: A Unified Value Framework Integrating Semantic Relevance and Information Gain for Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation
4. NeurIPS 2026Language-Conditioned World Modeling for Visual Navigation
5. NeurIPS 2026LiteNav: Lightweight Map-free Outdoor Visual Navigation
6. NeurIPS 2026One Scan is Enough: Demonstration-Free Adaptation for Language-Guided Navigation
7. NeurIPS 2026The limbic navigation system as a hierarchical RNN
8. NeurIPS 2026TimeWarp: Evaluating Web Agents by Revisiting the Past
9. NeurIPS 2026WebNavigator: Global Web Navigation via Interaction Graph Retrieval
10. NeurIPS 2025C-NAV: Towards Self-Evolving Continual Object Navigation in Open World
11. NeurIPS 2025Distilling LLM Prior to Flow Model for Generalizable Agent’s Imagination in Object Goal Navigation
12. NeurIPS 2025DynaNav: Dynamic Feature and Layer Selection for Efficient Visual Navigation
13. NeurIPS 2025Fully Autonomous Neuromorphic Navigation and Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance
14. NeurIPS 2025Gradient Descent as Loss Landscape Navigation: a Normative Framework for Deriving Learning Rules
15. NeurIPS 2025Hierarchical Semantic-Augmented Navigation: Optimal Transport and Graph-Driven Reasoning for Vision-Language Navigation
16. NeurIPS 2025NavBench: Probing Multimodal Large Language Models for Embodied Navigation
17. NeurIPS 2025NFL-BA: Near-Field Light Bundle Adjustment for SLAM in Dynamic Lighting
18. NeurIPS 2025SDTagNet: Leveraging Text-Annotated Navigation Maps for Online HD Map Construction
19. NeurIPS 2025Seeing through Uncertainty: Robust Task-Oriented Optimization in Visual Navigation
20. NeurIPS 2025WeatherPrompt: Multi-modality Representation Learning for All-Weather Drone Visual Geo-Localization
21. NeurIPS 2024Everyday Object Meets Vision-and-Language Navigation Agent via Backdoor
22. NeurIPS 2024Human-Aware Vision-and-Language Navigation: Bridging Simulation to Reality with Dynamic Human Interactions
23. NeurIPS 2024Learning World Models for Unconstrained Goal Navigation
24. NeurIPS 2024Personalized Instance-based Navigation Toward User-Specific Objects in Realistic Environments
25. NeurIPS 2024The motion planning neural circuit in goal-directed navigation as Lie group operator search
26. NeurIPS 2024Trajectory Diffusion for ObjectGoal Navigation
27. NeurIPS 2023FGPrompt: Fine-grained Goal Prompting for Image-goal Navigation
28. NeurIPS 2023Find What You Want: Learning Demand-conditioned Object Attribute Space for Demand-driven Navigation
29. NeurIPS 2023NeRF-IBVS: Visual Servo Based on NeRF for Visual Localization and 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.