Towards Physically Executable 3D Gaussian for Embodied Navigation
Bingchen Miao, Rong Wei, Zhiqi Ge, Xiaoquan sun, Shiqi Gao, Jingzhe Zhu, Renhan Wang, Siliang Tang
Abstract
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), a 3D representation method with photorealistic real-time rendering capabilities, is regarded as an effective tool for narrowing the sim-to-real gap. However, it lacks fine-grained semantics and physical executability for Visual-Language Navigation (VLN). To address this, we propose **SAGE-3D** (**S**emantically and Physically **A**ligned **G**aussian **E**nvironments for **3D** Navigation), a new paradigm that upgrades 3DGS into an executable, semantically and physically aligned environment. It comprises two components: **(1) Object-Centric Semantic Grounding**, which adds object-level fine-grained annotations to 3DGS; and **(2) Physics-Aware Execution Jointing**, which embeds collision objects into 3DGS and constructs rich physical interfaces. We release **InteriorGS**, containing 1K object-annotated 3DGS indoor scene data, and introduce **SAGE-Bench**, the first 3DGS-based VLN benchmark with 2M VLN data. Experiments show that 3DGS scene data is more difficult to converge, while exhibiting strong generalizability, improving baseline performance by 31% on the VLN-CE Unseen task.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{
miao2026towards,
title={Towards Physically Executable 3D Gaussian for Embodied Navigation},
author={Bingchen Miao and Rong Wei and Zhiqi Ge and Xiaoquan sun and Shiqi Gao and Jingzhe Zhu and Renhan Wang and Siliang Tang and Jun Xiao and Rui Tang and Juncheng Li},
booktitle={The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations},
year={2026},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=HB6KvsqcAn}
}