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Navigating the Proximity-Safety Balance: Constraint Decomposition for Human Following in Pedestrian Crowds
Shiting Gong, Jianpeng Yao, Jinfeng Wang +2
Following a target human in crowded environments involves an inherent conflict between staying close to the target and navigating safely among surrounding pedestrians and obstacles…
Do Vision-Language-Action Models Mean What They Say? On the Role of Faithfulness in Embodied Reasoning
Matthew Foutter, Matteo Cercola, Lena Wild +4
Embodied Chain-of-Thought has emerged as a promising mechanism to enhance robot decision-making and interpretability in black-box Vision-Language Action (VLA) models. However, whet…
Pseudo-Simulation for Autonomous Driving
Wei Cao, Marcel Hallgarten, Tianyu Li +11
Existing evaluation paradigms for Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) face critical limitations. Real-world evaluation is often challenging due to safety concerns and a lack of reproducibili…
Alpamayo-R1: Bridging Reasoning and Action Prediction for Generalizable Autonomous Driving in the Long Tail
NVIDIA, :, Yan Wang +41
End-to-end architectures trained via imitation learning have advanced autonomous driving by scaling model size and data, yet performance remains brittle in safety-critical long-tai…
RoaD: Rollouts as Demonstrations for Closed-Loop Supervised Fine-Tuning of Autonomous Driving Policies
Guillermo Garcia-Cobo, Maximilian Igl, Peter Karkus +5
Autonomous driving policies are typically trained via open-loop behavior cloning of human demonstrations. However, such policies suffer from covariate shift when deployed in closed…
Trends in Motion Prediction Toward Deployable and Generalizable Autonomy: A Revisit and Perspectives
Letian Wang, Marc-Antoine Lavoie, Sandro Papais +13
Motion prediction, recently popularized as world models, refers to the anticipation of future agent states or scene evolution, which is rooted in human cognition, bridging percepti…