AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 7h ago6/10
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When Engineering Outruns Intelligence: Rethinking Instruction-Guided Navigation
Researchers challenge the narrative that large language models drive recent advances in instruction-guided navigation systems, demonstrating that carefully engineered geometric algorithms achieve comparable or superior performance with no API calls. The findings suggest frontier-based geometry, not language understanding, accounts for most reported progress in ObjectNav systems.