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Oct 29, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

SimpleVLN: Native MLLMs Achieve Navigation SOTA Without Extra Modules

Fudan and NTU researchers propose SimpleVLN, a vision-language navigation framework that unlocks state-of-the-art performance by using native multimodal large language models without architectural changes, combining observation selection, action chunking, and a three-stage training pipeline for real-world robot deployment.