PointGoal Navigation

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

15 shown of 15 papers with code (25 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Habitat: A Platform for Embodied AI Research
  2 Apr 2019 13 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 15 samples · 12 unverified · 15 pointer-only (licence)
  We present Habitat, a platform for research in embodied artificial intelligence (AI).
• DD-PPO: Learning Near-Perfect PointGoal Navigators from 2.5 Billion Frames
  1 Nov 2019 8 repositories listed
  We leverage this scaling to train an agent for 2.
• Sim2Real Predictivity: Does Evaluation in Simulation Predict Real-World Performance?
  13 Dec 2019 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 2 samples · 2 unverified
  Second, we investigate the sim2real predictivity of Habitat-Sim for PointGoal navigation.
• Habitat-Matterport 3D Dataset (HM3D): 1000 Large-scale 3D Environments for Embodied AI
  16 Sep 2021 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 2 samples · 2 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  When compared to existing photorealistic 3D datasets such as Replica, MP3D, Gibson, and ScanNet, images rendered from HM3D have 20 - 85% higher visual fidelity w.
• Learning to Explore using Active Neural SLAM
  10 Apr 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified
  The use of learning provides flexibility with respect to input modalities (in the SLAM module), leverages structural regularities of the world (in global policies), and provides robustness to errors in state estimation…
• Comparison of Model-Free and Model-Based Learning-Informed Planning for PointGoal Navigation
  17 Dec 2022 1 repository listed
  In this work, we compare the state-of-the-art Deep Reinforcement Learning based approaches with Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) formulation of the point goal navigation problem.
• VER: Scaling On-Policy RL Leads to the Emergence of Navigation in Embodied Rearrangement
  11 Oct 2022 1 repository listed
  Specifically, the Pick skill involves a robot picking an object from a table.
• Is Mapping Necessary for Realistic PointGoal Navigation?
  2 Jun 2022 1 repository listed
  However, for PointNav in a realistic setting (RGB-D and actuation noise, no GPS+Compass), this is an open question; one we tackle in this paper.
• Embodied Navigation at the Art Gallery
  19 Apr 2022 1 repository listed
  This feature is challenging for occupancy-based agents which are usually trained in crowded domestic environments with plenty of occupancy information.
• Image-based Navigation in Real-World Environments via Multiple Mid-level Representations: Fusion Models, Benchmark and Efficient Evaluation
  2 Feb 2022 1 repository listed
  All the proposed navigation models have been trained with the Habitat simulator on a synthetic office environment and have been tested on the same real-world environment using a real robotic platform.
• Realistic PointGoal Navigation via Auxiliary Losses and Information Bottleneck
  17 Sep 2021 1 repository listed
  Under this setting, the agent incurs a penalty for using this privileged information, encouraging the agent to only leverage this information when it is crucial to learning.
• Out of the Box: Embodied Navigation in the Real World
  12 May 2021 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 7 samples · 6 unverified
  In this work, we detail how to transfer the knowledge acquired in simulation into the real world.
• Large Batch Simulation for Deep Reinforcement Learning
  12 Mar 2021 1 repository listed
  We accelerate deep reinforcement learning-based training in visually complex 3D environments by two orders of magnitude over prior work, realizing end-to-end training speeds of over 19, 000 frames of experience per…
• Auxiliary Tasks Speed Up Learning PointGoal Navigation
  9 Jul 2020 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  PointGoal Navigation is an embodied task that requires agents to navigate to a specified point in an unseen environment.
• Learning to Move with Affordance Maps
  8 Jan 2020 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we combine the best of both worlds with a modular approach that learns a spatial representation of a scene that is trained to be effective when coupled with traditional geometric planners.

Syntology lines on 6 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.