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8 papers

cs.RO2026

BeyondSight: Object Permanence for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Sandro Papais, Letian Wang, Mudit Jain +2

Autonomous driving operates in partially observable environments where actors may become fully occluded by other vehicles or infrastructure. Most end-to-end driving systems implici…

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Video Generation Models are General-Purpose Vision Learners

Letian Wang, Chuhan Zhang, Rishabh Kabra +9

Driven by next-token prediction, NLP shifted from task-specific models into powerful generalist foundation models. What, then, is the equivalent catalyst needed to achieve a genera…

cs.CV2026

LMGenDrive: Bridging Multimodal Understanding and Generative World Modeling for End-to-End Driving

Hao Shao, Letian Wang, Yang Zhou +5

Recent years have seen remarkable progress in autonomous driving, yet generalization to long-tail and open-world scenarios remains a major bottleneck for large-scale deployment. To…

cs.CV2026

DriveDreamer-Policy: A Geometry-Grounded World-Action Model for Unified Generation and Planning

Yang Zhou, Xiaofeng Wang, Hao Shao +8

Recently, world-action models (WAM) have emerged to bridge vision-language-action (VLA) models and world models, unifying their reasoning and instruction-following capabilities and…

cs.CV2026

CLIP Is Shortsighted: Paying Attention Beyond the First Sentence

Marc-Antoine Lavoie, Anas Mahmoud, Aldo Zaimi +2

CLIP models learn transferable multi-modal features via image-text contrastive learning on internet-scale data. They are widely used in zero-shot classification, multi-modal retrie…

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DrivingGen: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Generative Video World Models in Autonomous Driving

Yang Zhou, Hao Shao, Letian Wang +3

Video generation models, as one form of world models, have emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers in AI, promising agents the ability to imagine the future by modeling the t…