# CovNav: Conformal Prediction-Guided Adaptive Inference for ObjectNav

- Source: arXiv cs.RO
- Published: 2026-10-21T04:00:00.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/wrubjp0bjgu58pt3tnrqkhdbx
- Original: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27677

## Summary

CovNav is a training-free framework that uses conformal prediction (CP) to turn spatial queries in ObjectNav into structured binary decisions: a local large model in fast mode judges whether the target is likely near an observed object, CP converts its token probabilities into a prediction set, and only ambiguous queries are escalated to slow chain-of-thought reasoning.