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most citedWaymax: An Accelerated, Data-Driven Simulator for Large-Scale Autonomous Driving Research

22 citations · 24 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.AI2026

TacitVLA: Reasoning Vision-Language-Action Models Without Reasoning Latency

Jack Lu, Yurong You, Boyi Li +8

Textual reasoning before acting has improved vision-language-action (VLA) models, but at the cost of latency: every action conditioned on the reasoning text must wait for autoregre…

cs.CV2026

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…

cs.CV2026

Cosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AI

NVIDIA, :, Aditi +293

We introduce Cosmos 3, a family of omnimodal world models designed to jointly process and generate language, image, video, audio, and action sequences within a unified mixture-of-t…

cs.RO2026

Accelerating Structured Chain-of-Thought in Autonomous Vehicles

Yi Gu, Yan Wang, Yuxiao Chen +8

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning enhances the decision-making capabilities of vision-language-action models in autonomous driving, but its autoregressive nature introduces signific…

cs.RO2025

Counterfactual VLA: Self-Reflective Vision-Language-Action Model with Adaptive Reasoning

Zhenghao "Mark" Peng, Wenhao Ding, Yurong You +11

Recent reasoning-augmented Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have improved the interpretability of end-to-end autonomous driving by generating intermediate reasoning traces. Yet…

cs.CV2025

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…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

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…

cs.CV2025

Efficient Multi-Camera Tokenization with Triplanes for End-to-End Driving

Boris Ivanovic, Cristiano Saltori, Yurong You +3

Autoregressive Transformers are increasingly being deployed as end-to-end robot and autonomous vehicle (AV) policy architectures, owing to their scalability and potential to levera…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Improving Agent Behaviors with RL Fine-tuning for Autonomous Driving

Zhenghao Peng, Wenjie Luo, Yiren Lu +4

A major challenge in autonomous vehicle research is modeling agent behaviors, which has critical applications including constructing realistic and reliable simulations for off-boar…

cs.RO2023★ 22 cited

Waymax: An Accelerated, Data-Driven Simulator for Large-Scale Autonomous Driving Research

Cole Gulino, Justin Fu, Wenjie Luo +19

Simulation is an essential tool to develop and benchmark autonomous vehicle planning software in a safe and cost-effective manner. However, realistic simulation requires accurate m…