RATE-Nav: Region-Aware Termination Enhancement for Zero-shot Object Navigation with Vision-Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02354v1
• Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 01:15:00 GMT
• Title: RATE-Nav: Region-Aware Termination Enhancement for Zero-shot Object Navigation with Vision-Language Models
• Authors: Junjie Li, Nan Zhang, Xiaoyang Qu, Kai Lu, Guokuan Li, Jiguang Wan, Jianzong Wang,
• Abstract summary: A critical but underexplored direction is the timely termination of exploration to overcome these challenges.<n>We propose RATE-Nav, a Region-Aware Termination-Enhanced method.<n>It includes a geometric predictive region segmentation algorithm and region-Based exploration estimation algorithm for exploration rate calculation.<n>It achieves a success rate of 67.8% and an SPL of 31.3% on the HM3D dataset.
• Score: 36.39389224168802
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Object Navigation (ObjectNav) is a fundamental task in embodied artificial intelligence. Although significant progress has been made in semantic map construction and target direction prediction in current research, redundant exploration and exploration failures remain inevitable. A critical but underexplored direction is the timely termination of exploration to overcome these challenges. We observe a diminishing marginal effect between exploration steps and exploration rates and analyze the cost-benefit relationship of exploration. Inspired by this, we propose RATE-Nav, a Region-Aware Termination-Enhanced method. It includes a geometric predictive region segmentation algorithm and region-Based exploration estimation algorithm for exploration rate calculation. By leveraging the visual question answering capabilities of visual language models (VLMs) and exploration rates enables efficient termination.RATE-Nav achieves a success rate of 67.8% and an SPL of 31.3% on the HM3D dataset. And on the more challenging MP3D dataset, RATE-Nav shows approximately 10% improvement over previous zero-shot methods.

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