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End-to-end autonomous driving has emerged as a promising paradigm integrating perception, decision-making, and control within a unified learning framework. Recently, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have gained significant attention for their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yuxuan Han , Kunyuan Wu , Qianyi Shao , Renxiang Xiao , Zilu Wang , Cansen Jiang , Yi Xiao , Liang Hu , Yunjiang Lou

The integration of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) into autonomous driving systems has shown promise in addressing key challenges such as learning complexity, interpretability, and common-sense reasoning. However, existing approaches often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Xuesong Chen , Linjiang Huang , Tao Ma , Rongyao Fang , Shaoshuai Shi , Hongsheng Li

Autonomous driving (AD) systems struggle in long-tail scenarios due to limited world knowledge and weak visual dynamic modeling. Existing vision-language-action (VLA)-based methods cannot leverage unlabeled videos for visual causal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Hao Lu , Ziyang Liu , Guangfeng Jiang , Yuanfei Luo , Sheng Chen , Yangang Zhang , Ying-Cong Chen

Current autonomous driving vehicles rely mainly on their individual sensors to understand surrounding scenes and plan for future trajectories, which can be unreliable when the sensors are malfunctioning or occluded. To address this problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Hsu-kuang Chiu , Ryo Hachiuma , Chien-Yi Wang , Stephen F. Smith , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Min-Hung Chen

The Large Visual-Language Models (LVLMs) have significantly advanced image understanding. Their comprehension and reasoning capabilities enable promising applications in autonomous driving scenarios. However, existing research typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Zongchuang Zhao , Haoyu Fu , Dingkang Liang , Xin Zhou , Dingyuan Zhang , Hongwei Xie , Bing Wang , Xiang Bai

A fundamental challenge in autonomous driving is the integration of high-level, semantic reasoning for long-tail events with low-level, reactive control for robust driving. While large vision-language models (VLMs) trained on web-scale data…

Integrating large language models (LLMs) into autonomous driving has attracted significant attention with the hope of improving generalization and explainability. However, existing methods often focus on either driving or vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Katrin Renz , Long Chen , Elahe Arani , Oleg Sinavski

In this work, we reconceptualize autonomous driving as a generalized language problem and formulate the trajectory planning task as next waypoint prediction. We introduce Max-V1, a novel framework for one-stage end-to-end autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Sheng Yang , Tong Zhan , Guancheng Chen , Yanfeng Lu , Jian Wang

End-to-end autonomous driving demonstrates strong planning capabilities with large-scale data but still struggles in complex, rare scenarios due to limited commonsense. In contrast, Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) excel in scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Bo Jiang , Shaoyu Chen , Bencheng Liao , Xingyu Zhang , Wei Yin , Qian Zhang , Chang Huang , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Autonomous driving policy learning with reinforcement learning (RL) is fundamentally limited by low sample efficiency, weak generalization, and a dependence on unsafe online trial-and-error interactions. Although safe RL introduces explicit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yansong Qu , Zilin Huang , Zihao Sheng , Jiancong Chen , Yue Leng , Samuel Labi , Sikai Chen

Vision-language navigation (VLN) requires intelligent agents to navigate environments by interpreting linguistic instructions alongside visual observations, serving as a cornerstone task in Embodied AI. Current VLN research for unmanned…

Effective autonomous driving hinges on robust reasoning across perception, prediction, planning, and behavior. However, conventional end-to-end models fail to generalize in complex scenarios due to the lack of structured reasoning. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Muxi Diao , Lele Yang , Hongbo Yin , Zhexu Wang , Yejie Wang , Daxin Tian , Kongming Liang , Zhanyu Ma

Vision-language-action models have reshaped autonomous driving to incorporate languages into the decision-making process. However, most existing pipelines only utilize the language modality for scene descriptions or reasoning and lack the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sicheng Zuo , Yuxuan Li , Wenzhao Zheng , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

In the past few years, the emergence of pre-training models has brought uni-modal fields such as computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP) to a new era. Substantial works have shown they are beneficial for downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Feilong Chen , Duzhen Zhang , Minglun Han , Xiuyi Chen , Jing Shi , Shuang Xu , Bo Xu

Autonomous driving requires reliable perception and safe decision-making in complex scenarios. Recent vision-language models (VLMs) demonstrate reasoning and generalization abilities, opening new possibilities for autonomous driving;…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zecong Tang , Zixu Wang , Yifei Wang , Weitong Lian , Tianjian Gao , Haoran Li , Tengju Ru , Lingyi Meng , Zhejun Cui , Yichen Zhu , Qi Kang , Kaixuan Wang , Yu Zhang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and Multi-Modal Language models (MMLMs) have become prominent in autonomous driving research, as these models can provide interpretable textual reasoning and responses for end-to-end autonomous driving safety…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Akshay Gopalkrishnan , Ross Greer , Mohan Trivedi

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently emerged in autonomous driving, with the promise of leveraging rich world knowledge to improve the cognitive capabilities of driving systems. However, adapting such models for driving tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yongkang Li , Lijun Zhou , Sixu Yan , Bencheng Liao , Tianyi Yan , Kaixin Xiong , Long Chen , Hongwei Xie , Bing Wang , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Wenyu Liu , Haiyang Sun , Xinggang Wang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly proposed for autonomous driving tasks, yet their performance on sequential driving scenes remains poorly characterized, particularly regarding how input configurations affect their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Roberto Brusnicki , Mattia Piccinini , Johannes Betz

Autonomous driving, particularly navigating complex and unanticipated scenarios, demands sophisticated reasoning and planning capabilities. While Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) offer a promising avenue for this, their use has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Hidehisa Arai , Keita Miwa , Kento Sasaki , Yu Yamaguchi , Kohei Watanabe , Shunsuke Aoki , Issei Yamamoto

The UAV-VLPA* (Visual-Language-Planning-and-Action) system represents a cutting-edge advancement in aerial robotics, designed to enhance communication and operational efficiency for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). By integrating advanced…