NaLA: A 3D Native LLM Layout Agent for High-quality 3D Scene Generation

Cheng Wan   Yongsen Mao   Wenzheng Wu   Yuxuan Xie   Chucheng Xiang   Runze Wang   Xiang Zhang   Zhongyuan Liu   Rushi Dai   Yuan Liu

ECCV 2026

NaLA overview

Abstract

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as promising layout agents for 3D scene generation. Existing layout agents still suffer from implausible layout generation because most of them convert 3D assets and 3D layouts into textual descriptions as inputs and outputs, which involves severe information loss due to the modality gap between texts and 3D assets and 3D layouts. We propose NaLA, a native 3D LLM layout agent for high-quality 3D scene generation by placing 3D assets in the scene. For the inputs, NaLA encodes 3D scene boundaries and 3D assets directly into the LLM, preserving fine-grained geometry and enabling explicit reasoning over relationships like collisions, surface supporting, and containment. To accurately output the positions and orientations of assets, NaLA adopts a coarse-to-fine prediction mechanism that first predicts discrete poses in an autoregressive manner and then refines the discrete poses with a continuous regression. Trained on diverse layout datasets, NaLA attains strong geometric perception and layout coherence. Experiments demonstrate that NaLA outperforms prior layout agents in both generation quality and inference efficiency, with comprehensive ablation studies to verify each component's effectiveness.

BibTeX

@article{wan2026nala,
  title={NaLA: A 3D Native LLM Layout Agent for High-quality 3D Scene Generation},
  author={Wan, Cheng and Mao, Yongsen and Wu, Wenzheng and Xie, Yuxuan and Xiang, Chucheng and Wang, Runze and Zhang, Xiang and Liu, Zhongyuan and Dai, Rushi and Liu, Yuan},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.29395},
  year={2026}
}