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LG-VLN: A Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation Framework with LangGraph State Orchestration

arXiv:2609.15098v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous-environment vision-and-language navigation (VLN-CE) requires interpreting natural-language instructions in unseen 3D environments and executing continuous low-level actions. Existing methods often depend on LiDAR, panoramic cameras, or extra sensors; separate geometric-mapping and semantic-navigation visual representations can cause long-trajectory spatial-semantic inconsistencies. We propose LG-VLN, a monocular zero-shot framework wi

Published September 15, 2026 · Category: Robotics

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arXiv:2609.15098v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous-environment vision-and-language navigation (VLN-CE) requires interpreting natural-language instructions in unseen 3D environments and executing continuous low-level actions. Existing methods often depend on LiDAR, panoramic cameras, or extra sensors; separate geometric-mapping and semantic-navigation visual representations can cause long-trajectory spatial-semantic inconsistencies. We propose LG-VLN, a monocular zero-shot framework with shared visual features and LangGraph-based state orchestration. An online feed-forward 3D reconstruction network predicts depth, camera poses, and dense point clouds for agent-pose estimation and global map fusion. Geometry and navigation share dense CleanDIFT features: semantic consistency rejects incorrect inter-frame correspondences, while target-instance constraints define visual references whose similarity combines with local BLIP-2 image-text relevance to form a semantic value map. LangGraph represents instruction parsing, geometric perception, semantic value updates, path planning, action execution, and failure recovery as a directed state graph with conditional transitions, persistent state, and modular recovery mechanisms. On a fixed 550-episode subset of the R2R-CE val-unseen split, LG-VLN achieves 21.3% success and 12.1% success weighted by path length. Ablations show shared semantic features improve navigation, further boosted by combining visual similarity and image-text relevance. Results establish shared visual representations and explicit state orchestration as effective for zero-shot VLN-CE using monocular RGB alone. Code will be publicly released for reproducibility.

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Originally published at arxiv.org.

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