Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Li, Badi, Lu, Ren-jie, Zhou, Yu, Meng, Jingke, Zheng, Wei-shi
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09423
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866908604062236672
author Li, Badi
Lu, Ren-jie
Zhou, Yu
Meng, Jingke
Zheng, Wei-shi
author_facet Li, Badi
Lu, Ren-jie
Zhou, Yu
Meng, Jingke
Zheng, Wei-shi
contents The Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) task challenges agents to locate a specified object in an unseen environment by imagining unobserved regions of the scene. Prior approaches rely on deterministic and discriminative models to complete semantic maps, overlooking the inherent uncertainty in indoor layouts and limiting their ability to generalize to unseen environments. In this work, we propose GOAL, a generative flow-based framework that models the semantic distribution of indoor environments by bridging observed regions with LLM-enriched full-scene semantic maps. During training, spatial priors inferred from large language models (LLMs) are encoded as two-dimensional Gaussian fields and injected into target maps, distilling rich contextual knowledge into the flow model and enabling more generalizable completions. Extensive experiments demonstrate that GOAL achieves state-of-the-art performance on MP3D and Gibson, and shows strong generalization in transfer settings to HM3D. Codes and pretrained models are available at https://github.com/Badi-Li/GOAL.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2508_09423
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Distilling LLM Prior to Flow Model for Generalizable Agent's Imagination in Object Goal Navigation
Li, Badi
Lu, Ren-jie
Zhou, Yu
Meng, Jingke
Zheng, Wei-shi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
The Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) task challenges agents to locate a specified object in an unseen environment by imagining unobserved regions of the scene. Prior approaches rely on deterministic and discriminative models to complete semantic maps, overlooking the inherent uncertainty in indoor layouts and limiting their ability to generalize to unseen environments. In this work, we propose GOAL, a generative flow-based framework that models the semantic distribution of indoor environments by bridging observed regions with LLM-enriched full-scene semantic maps. During training, spatial priors inferred from large language models (LLMs) are encoded as two-dimensional Gaussian fields and injected into target maps, distilling rich contextual knowledge into the flow model and enabling more generalizable completions. Extensive experiments demonstrate that GOAL achieves state-of-the-art performance on MP3D and Gibson, and shows strong generalization in transfer settings to HM3D. Codes and pretrained models are available at https://github.com/Badi-Li/GOAL.
title Distilling LLM Prior to Flow Model for Generalizable Agent's Imagination in Object Goal Navigation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09423