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Short-to-Long: Detached Features for Long-Horizon Value Learning
Tong Che, Boris Ivanovic, Marco Pavone
Learning useful representations from continually changing value targets remains a challenge in deep reinforcement learning. We study the temporal horizon of this supervision: small…
VeriFine: Scaling Verification for Self-Improvement in Embodied Reasoning
Zewei Zhou, Rachel Luo, Yulong Cao +10
Self-improving policies continually expose new failure patterns, changing what their judges must be able to verify. However, current fixed judges constrain both optimization feedba…
Grounding What Shapes the Plan: Rethinking Groundedness for Physical Intelligence in Autonomous Driving
Minkyoung Cho, Zewei Zhou, Wenhao Ding +11
Driving models increasingly ground reasoning in causal relations, spatial structure, perceptual evidence, and predicted futures. These advances make reasoning more faithful to the…
CtrlWAM: Controllable World Action Models with Aligned Intent and Foresight
Chensheng Peng, Wenhao Ding, Ran Tian +9
World action models (WAMs) jointly predict actions (intent) and visual future (foresight). Standard training adds noise to recorded actions and video simultaneously, but such train…
Vision-Language-Action Autonomous Driving Agent with Language-based Memory
Kai Yan, Xiangyu Chen, Yulong Cao +9
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation models have recently emerged as one of the prevailing solutions for autonomous driving, as they can utilize knowledge acquired during vision…
OPTED: On-Policy Fine-Tuning for End-to-End Driving using a Render-Free Teacher
Damiano Da Col, Maximilian Igl, Peter Karkus +5
As scaling pre-training data alone yields diminishing returns, post-training is becoming increasingly important across physical AI domains such as autonomous driving. End-to-end dr…
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…
OpenLongTail: Generative Scaling of Long-Tail Driving Data
Lulin Liu, Nuo Chen, Yan Wang +15
Scaling robust driving policies is fundamentally bottlenecked by the scarcity of edge cases in curated datasets. While the real world continuously captures these critical events, s…
A Physics-Grounded Benchmark for Multi-Agent Dynamics in World Models
Nuo Chen, Lulin Liu, Zihao Li +12
Generative world models hold immense promise as scalable simulators for autonomous systems, particularly for synthesizing rare but safety-critical multi-agent interactions, such as…
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…
FoundationMotion: Auto-Labeling and Reasoning about Spatial Movement in Videos
Yulu Gan, Ligeng Zhu, Dandan Shan +8
Motion understanding is fundamental to physical reasoning, enabling models to infer dynamics and predict future states. However, state-of-the-art models still struggle on recent mo…
dVLM-AD: Enhance Diffusion Vision-Language-Model for Driving via Controllable Reasoning
Yingzi Ma, Yulong Cao, Wenhao Ding +6
The autonomous driving community is increasingly focused on addressing the challenges posed by out-of-distribution (OOD) driving scenarios. A dominant research trend seeks to enhan…
Latent Chain-of-Thought World Modeling for End-to-End Driving
Shuhan Tan, Kashyap Chitta, Yuxiao Chen +8
Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for autonomous driving explore inference-time reasoning as a way to improve driving performance and safety in challenging scenarios. Most…
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…
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…
Safety Evaluation of Motion Plans Using Trajectory Predictors as Forward Reachable Set Estimators
Kaustav Chakraborty, Zeyuan Feng, Sushant Veer +6
The advent of end-to-end autonomy stacks - often lacking interpretable intermediate modules - has placed an increased burden on ensuring that the final output, i.e., the motion pla…
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…
RealDrive: Retrieval-Augmented Driving with Diffusion Models
Wenhao Ding, Sushant Veer, Yuxiao Chen +3
Learning-based planners generate natural human-like driving behaviors by learning to reason about nuanced interactions from data, overcoming the rigid behaviors that arise from rul…
Generative AI for Autonomous Driving: Frontiers and Opportunities
Yuping Wang, Shuo Xing, Cui Can +46
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) constitutes a transformative technological wave that reconfigures industries through its unparalleled capabilities for content creation,…
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…
Data Scaling Laws for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Alexander Naumann, Xunjiang Gu, Tolga Dimlioglu +7
Autonomous vehicle (AV) stacks have traditionally relied on decomposed approaches, with separate modules handling perception, prediction, and planning. However, this design introdu…
Surprise Potential as a Measure of Interactivity in Driving Scenarios
Wenhao Ding, Sushant Veer, Karen Leung +2
Validating the safety and performance of an autonomous vehicle (AV) requires benchmarking on real-world driving logs. However, typical driving logs contain mostly uneventful scenar…
LoRA3D: Low-Rank Self-Calibration of 3D Geometric Foundation Models
Ziqi Lu, Heng Yang, Danfei Xu +4
Emerging 3D geometric foundation models, such as DUSt3R, offer a promising approach for in-the-wild 3D vision tasks. However, due to the high-dimensional nature of the problem spac…
Closed-Loop Supervised Fine-Tuning of Tokenized Traffic Models
Zhejun Zhang, Peter Karkus, Maximilian Igl +4
Traffic simulation aims to learn a policy for traffic agents that, when unrolled in closed-loop, faithfully recovers the joint distribution of trajectories observed in the real wor…