VerNav: 検証器優先の低遅延ビジョン・言語ナビゲーション
VerNav: Verifier-First Low-Latency Vision-and-Language Navigation
VLNタスクにおいて、各ステップの自己回帰生成を検証器による一括アクション検証に置き換え、不確実な場合のみ適応的生成器を使うことで、遅延を10倍以上削減しつつ競争力のある性能を達成するフレームワークを提案した。
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著者: Zhixin Wang, Chengzheyi Yao, Leyuan Liu, Xiaosong Zhang, Yongzhao Zhang
分類: cs.RO, cs.CV
原文アブストラクト
Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate through unseen 3D environments according to natural-language instructions. Explicit reasoning can improve instruction understanding and semantic grounding, but autoregressive generation at every step accumulates large decision-stage latency over multi-step navigation. We propose VerNav, a verifier-first framework for low-latency LLM-based VLN. The verifier reduces decision-stage latency by replacing per-step autoregressive generation with batched action verification, while an entropy-based adaptive generator is invoked only for uncertain decisions to produce compact state evidence. To further improve navigation performance with the verifier, we introduce a two-stage alignment scheme: (i) VPO improves local action-preference alignment in static verifier training, and (ii) step-level reinforcement fine-tuning provides dense progress rewards over multi-step navigation rollouts during dynamic task execution. Experiments on the Room-to-Room (R2R) benchmark show that the verifier-only decision path of VerNav achieves competitive navigation performance among representative LLM-based VLN agents while reducing average decision-stage LLM latency per step by more than $10\times$ compared with autoregressive methods.