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8 papers

cs.RO2026

Zero-Human Demonstration End-to-end Autonomous Driving with Trajectory Scorer

Zhenxin Li, Nadine Chang, Wenhao Yao +9

Human demonstrations are widely considered the cornerstone of end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving despite human demonstration's scarcity for long-tail and safety-critical scenarios…

cs.RO2026

HAD: Combining Hierarchical Diffusion with Metric-Decoupled RL for End-to-End Driving

Wenhao Yao, Xinglong Sun, Zhenxin Li +4

End-to-end planning has emerged as a dominant paradigm for autonomous driving, where recent models often adopt a scoring-selection framework to choose trajectories from a large set…

cs.CV2026

DriveCritic: Towards Context-Aware, Human-Aligned Evaluation for Autonomous Driving with Vision-Language Models

Jingyu Song, Zhenxin Li, Shiyi Lan +6

Benchmarking autonomous driving planners to align with human judgment remains a critical challenge, as state-of-the-art metrics like the Extended Predictive Driver Model Score (EPD…

cs.RO2025

DriveSuprim: Towards Precise Trajectory Selection for End-to-End Planning

Wenhao Yao, Zhenxin Li, Shiyi Lan +4

Autonomous vehicles must navigate safely in complex driving environments. Imitating a single expert trajectory, as in regression-based approaches, usually does not explicitly asses…

cs.RO2025

Hydra-NeXt: Robust Closed-Loop Driving with Open-Loop Training

Zhenxin Li, Shihao Wang, Shiyi Lan +3

End-to-end autonomous driving research currently faces a critical challenge in bridging the gap between open-loop training and closed-loop deployment. Current approaches are traine…

cs.RO2025

Generalized Trajectory Scoring for End-to-end Multimodal Planning

Zhenxin Li, Wenhao Yao, Zi Wang +7

End-to-end multi-modal planning is a promising paradigm in autonomous driving, enabling decision-making with diverse trajectory candidates. A key component is a robust trajectory s…