All-day Multi-scenes Lifelong Vision-and-Language Navigation with Tucker Adaptation

Deploying vision-and-language navigation (VLN) agents requires adaptation across diverse scenes and environments, but fine-tuning on a specific scenario often causes catastrophic forgetting in others, which severely limits flexible long-term deployment. We formalize this challenge as the all-day multi-scenes lifelong VLN (AML-VLN) problem. Existing parameter-efficient adapters (e.g., LoRA and its variants) are limited by their two-dimensional matrix form, which fails to capture the multi-hierarchical navigation knowledge spanning multiple scenes and environments. To address this, we propose Tucker Adaptation (TuKA), which represents the multi-hierarchical navigation knowledge as a high-order tensor and leverages Tucker decomposition to decouple the knowledge into shared subspaces and scenario-specific experts. We further introduce a decoupled knowledge incremental learning strategy to consolidate shared subspaces while constraining specific experts for decoupled lifelong learning. Building on TuKA, we also develop a VLN agent named AlldayWalker, which continually learns across multiple navigation scenarios, achieving all-day multi-scenes navigation. Extensive experiments show that AlldayWalker consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines.

Lifelong Language-Conditioned Robotic Manipulation Learning

Traditional language-conditioned manipulation agent sequential adaptation to new manipulation skills leads to catastrophic forgetting of old skills, limiting dynamic scene practical deployment. In this paper, we propose SkillsCrafter, a novel robotic manipulation framework designed to continually learn multiple skills while reducing catastrophic forgetting of old skills. Specifically, we propose a Manipulation Skills Adaptation to retain the old skills knowledge while inheriting the shared knowledge between new and old skills to facilitate learning of new skills. Meanwhile, we perform the singular value decomposition on the diverse skill instructions to obtain common skill semantic subspace projection matrices, thereby recording the essential semantic space of skills. To achieve forget-less and generalization manipulation, we propose a Skills Specialization Aggregation to compute inter-skills similarity in skill semantic subspaces, achieving aggregation of the previously learned skill knowledge for any new or unknown skill. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of our proposed SkillsCrafter.