Enhanced Global Policy for Visual Exploration via Parameter-free Attention and Self-supervised Auxiliary Tasks
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Technical University of Denmark

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The work is supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Individual Fellowship under Grant No. 101154277.

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    Embodied visual exploration is a fundamental challenge for autonomous agents navigating unknown environments. Traditional strategies often rely on complex geometric reasoning or handcrafted heuristics, which struggle with high-dimensional states in complex scenarios. In this paper, we propose an improved global policy for the Active Neural SLAM (ANS) framework by integrating a parameter-free attention mechanism and self-supervised auxiliary tasks. Specifically, the introduced SimAM module is for 3D attention weighting to prioritize salient features without adding parameters. Furthermore, rotation-based self-supervised tasks are introduced to improve generalization across unseen environments. Results on Gibson and MP3D datasets demonstrate that our approach significantly enhances exploration efficiency and coverage, particularly in large-scale scenes, outperforming current state-of-the-art learning-based and heuristic strategies.

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  • Received:January 22,2026
  • Revised:May 10,2026
  • Adopted:July 01,2026
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