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cs.CV2026

AdaTok: Self-Budgeting Image Tokenization with Quality-Preserving Dynamic Tokens

Xiaocheng Lu, Yuxi Chen, Jie Zhang +5

Image tokenizers, from 2D grids to recent 1D sequences, typically encode every image with the same fixed number of tokens. Yet visual complexity is highly heterogeneous, so a unifo…

cs.RO2026

Planning-aligned Token Compression for Long-Context Autonomous Driving

Zhixuan Liang, Yuxiao Chen, Yurong You +12

Monolithic vision-action models represent an emerging paradigm in autonomous driving. However, this architecture produces token sequences that quickly exceed real-time computationa…

cs.CV2026

TOC-Bench: A Temporal Object Consistency Benchmark for Video Large Language Models

Junzhe Chen, Siyuan Meng, Yuxi Chen +3

Video large language models (Video-LLMs) have made strong progress in general video understanding, but their ability to maintain temporal object consistency remains underexplored.…

cs.RO2026

ReSteer: Quantifying and Refining the Steerability of Multitask Robot Policies

Zhenyang Chen, Alan Tian, Liquan Wang +5

Despite strong multi-task pretraining, existing policies often exhibit poor task steerability. For example, a robot may fail to respond to a new instruction ``put the bowl in the s…

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

Towards Efficient and Effective Multi-Camera Encoding for End-to-End Driving

Jiawei Yang, Ziyu Chen, Yurong You +7

We present Flex, an efficient and effective scene encoder that addresses the computational bottleneck of processing high-volume multi-camera data in end-to-end autonomous driving.…

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

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…

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.RO2025

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…

cs.RO2025

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…

cs.CV2025

DreamDrive: Generative 4D Scene Modeling from Street View Images

Jiageng Mao, Boyi Li, Boris Ivanovic +7

Synthesizing photo-realistic visual observations from an ego vehicle's driving trajectory is a critical step towards scalable training of self-driving models. Reconstruction-based…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

STORM: Spatio-Temporal Reconstruction Model for Large-Scale Outdoor Scenes

Jiawei Yang, Jiahui Huang, Yuxiao Chen +10

We present STORM, a spatio-temporal reconstruction model designed for reconstructing dynamic outdoor scenes from sparse observations. Existing dynamic reconstruction methods often…

cs.LG2024

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…

cs.RO2024

Gen-Drive: Enhancing Diffusion Generative Driving Policies with Reward Modeling and Reinforcement Learning Fine-tuning

Zhiyu Huang, Xinshuo Weng, Maximilian Igl +5

Autonomous driving necessitates the ability to reason about future interactions between traffic agents and to make informed evaluations for planning. This paper introduces the \tex…

cs.CV2024

Promptable Closed-loop Traffic Simulation

Shuhan Tan, Boris Ivanovic, Yuxiao Chen +5

Simulation stands as a cornerstone for safe and efficient autonomous driving development. At its core a simulation system ought to produce realistic, reactive, and controllable tra…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Wolf: Dense Video Captioning with a World Summarization Framework

Boyi Li, Ligeng Zhu, Ran Tian +20

We propose Wolf, a WOrLd summarization Framework for accurate video captioning. Wolf is an automated captioning framework that adopts a mixture-of-experts approach, leveraging comp…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

Tokenize the World into Object-level Knowledge to Address Long-tail Events in Autonomous Driving

Ran Tian, Boyi Li, Xinshuo Weng +5

The autonomous driving industry is increasingly adopting end-to-end learning from sensory inputs to minimize human biases in system design. Traditional end-to-end driving models, h…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Versatile Behavior Diffusion for Generalized Traffic Agent Simulation

Zhiyu Huang, Zixu Zhang, Ameya Vaidya +3

Existing traffic simulation models often fall short in capturing the intricacies of real-world scenarios, particularly the interactive behaviors among multiple traffic participants…