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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

End-to-end autonomous driving methods aim to directly map raw sensor inputs to future driving actions such as planned trajectories, bypassing traditional modular pipelines. While these approaches have shown promise, they often operate under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Bozhou Zhang , Nan Song , Jingyu Li , Xiatian Zhu , Jiankang Deng , Li Zhang

A key challenge for autonomous driving lies in maintaining real-time situational awareness regarding surrounding obstacles under strict latency constraints. The high processing requirements coupled with limited onboard computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Faisal Hawladera , Rui Meireles , Gamal Elghazaly , Ana Aguiar , Raphaël Frank

Autonomous driving heavily relies on accurate and robust spatial perception. Many failures arise from inaccuracies and instability, especially in long-tail scenarios and complex interactions. However, current vision-language models are weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jianhua Han , Meng Tian , Jiangtong Zhu , Fan He , Huixin Zhang , Sitong Guo , Dechang Zhu , Hao Tang , Pei Xu , Yuze Guo , Minzhe Niu , Haojie Zhu , Qichao Dong , Xuechao Yan , Siyuan Dong , Lu Hou , Qingqiu Huang , Xiaosong Jia , Hang Xu

This work introduces the Multimodal Diffusion Transformer (MDT), a novel diffusion policy framework, that excels at learning versatile behavior from multimodal goal specifications with few language annotations. MDT leverages a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Moritz Reuss , Ömer Erdinç Yağmurlu , Fabian Wenzel , Rudolf Lioutikov

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

End-to-end autonomous driving systems directly generate driving policies from raw sensor inputs. While these systems can extract effective environmental features for planning, relying on auxiliary perception tasks, developing perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xingtai Gui , Jianbo Zhao , Wencheng Han , Jikai Wang , Jiahao Gong , Feiyang Tan , Cheng-zhong Xu , Jianbing Shen

Recent advances in 3D generation have improved the fidelity and geometric details of synthesized 3D assets. However, due to the inherent ambiguity of single-view observations and the lack of robust global structural priors caused by limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Wenyue Chen , Wenjue Chen , Peng Li , Qinghe Wang , Xu Jia , Heliang Zheng , Rongfei Jia , Yuan Liu , Ronggang Wang

Vision-language models (VLMs) predominantly rely on autoregressive decoding, which generates tokens one at a time and fundamentally limits inference throughput. This limitation is especially acute in physical AI scenarios such as robotics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Chengyue Wu , Shiyi Lan , Yonggan Fu , Sensen Gao , Jin Wang , Jincheng Yu , Jose M. Alvarez , Pavlo Molchanov , Ping Luo , Song Han , Ligeng Zhu , Enze Xie

The autonomous driving (AD) system has exhibited remarkable performance in complex driving scenarios. However, generalization is still a key limitation for the current system, which refers to the ability to handle unseen scenarios or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jack Qin , Zhitao Wang , Yinan Zheng , Keyu Chen , Yang Zhou , Yuanxin Zhong , Siyuan Cheng

Motivated by the emergent reasoning capabilities of Vision Language Models (VLMs) and their potential to improve the comprehensibility of autonomous driving systems, this paper introduces a closed-loop autonomous driving controller called…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Keke Long , Haotian Shi , Jiaxi Liu , Xiaopeng Li

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…

Diffusion models have shown incredible capabilities as generative models; indeed, they power the current state-of-the-art models on text-conditioned image generation such as Imagen and DALL-E 2. In this work we review, demystify, and unify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Calvin Luo

Existing Driving VLAs predict trajectories while largely ignoring their visual tokens -- a phenomenon we trace not to insufficient training but to a structurally ill-posed task formulation. We show that trajectory recovery, when viewed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Junsung Park , Hyunjung Shim

Logit Lens is a widely adopted method for mechanistic interpretability of transformer-based language models, enabling the analysis of how internal representations evolve across layers by projecting them into the output vocabulary space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Ryota Takatsuki , Sonia Joseph , Ippei Fujisawa , Ryota Kanai

Recent advancements in foundation models (FMs) have unlocked new prospects in autonomous driving, yet the experimental settings of these studies are preliminary, over-simplified, and fail to capture the complexity of real-world driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Yidong Huang , Jacob Sansom , Ziqiao Ma , Felix Gervits , Joyce Chai

Existing benchmarks for Vision-Language Model (VLM) on autonomous driving (AD) primarily assess interpretability through open-form visual question answering (QA) within coarse-grained tasks, which remain insufficient to assess capabilities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yue Li , Meng Tian , Zhenyu Lin , Jiangtong Zhu , Dechang Zhu , Haiqiang Liu , Zining Wang , Yueyi Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong , Xinhai Zhao

Exploring open-world situations in an end-to-end manner is a promising yet challenging task due to the need for strong generalization capabilities. In particular, end-to-end autonomous driving in unstructured outdoor environments often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hyunki Seong , Seongwoo Moon , Hojin Ahn , Jehun Kang , David Hyunchul Shim

The validation of autonomous driving systems benefits greatly from the ability to generate scenarios that are both realistic and precisely controllable. Conventional approaches, such as real-world test drives, are not only expensive but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yizhuo Xiao , Mustafa Suphi Erden , Cheng Wang

Vision Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate significant potential as embodied AI agents for various mobility applications. However, a standardized, closed-loop benchmark for evaluating their spatial reasoning and sequential decision-making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Weizhen Wang , Chenda Duan , Zhenghao Peng , Yuxin Liu , Bolei Zhou