arXiv:2606.03756v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Neural Navigation Functions (Neural-NF), a learned reactive navigation function capable of zero-shot transfer across unseen environment geometries. Neural-NF places data-driven adaptation within a structured elliptic planner, where the navigation objective is learned while planner structure is preserved by construction. Specifically, intrinsic Laplacian-derived features are mapped to local PDE coefficients, and solving the resulting boundary value problem produces a globally consistent value function on each target domain. For ever
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