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In this paper, we present a hierarchical question-answering (QA) approach for scene understanding in autonomous vehicles, balancing cost-efficiency with detailed visual interpretation. The method fine-tunes a compact vision-language model…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across a range of scientific tasks including mathematics, physics, and chemistry. Despite their successes, the effectiveness of LLMs in handling complex statistical…

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Recently, LLM-powered driver agents have demonstrated considerable potential in the field of autonomous driving, showcasing human-like reasoning and decision-making abilities.However, current research on aligning driver agent behaviors with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Ruoxuan Yang , Xinyue Zhang , Anais Fernandez-Laaksonen , Xin Ding , Jiangtao Gong

Large Language Models (LLMs) have great potential in the field of health care, yet they face great challenges in adapting to rapidly evolving medical knowledge. This can lead to outdated or contradictory treatment suggestions. This study…

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Recent advances in video question answering (VideoQA) offer promising applications, especially in traffic monitoring, where efficient video interpretation is critical. Within ITS, answering complex, real-time queries like "How many red cars…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Joseph Raj Vishal , Divesh Basina , Aarya Choudhary , Bharatesh Chakravarthi

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have pushed the boundaries of natural language processing, especially in long-context understanding. However, the evaluation of these models' long-context abilities remains a challenge due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Cunxiang Wang , Ruoxi Ning , Boqi Pan , Tonghui Wu , Qipeng Guo , Cheng Deng , Guangsheng Bao , Xiangkun Hu , Zheng Zhang , Qian Wang , Yue Zhang

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show significant promise for end-to-end autonomous driving by leveraging the common sense embedded in language models, their reliance on 2D image cues for complex scene understanding and decision-making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Weijie Wei , Zhipeng Luo , Ling Feng , Venice Erin Liong

Question Answering (QA) on narrative text poses a unique challenge to current systems, requiring a deep understanding of long, complex documents. However, the reliability of NarrativeQA, the most widely used benchmark in this domain, is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Tommaso Bonomo , Luca Gioffré , Roberto Navigli

The rapid development of Vision-Language models (VLMs) and Multimodal Language Models (MLLMs) in autonomous driving research has significantly reshaped the landscape by enabling richer scene understanding, context-aware reasoning, and more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Karthik Mohan , Sonam Singh , Amit Arvind Kale

The current expressway operation relies on rule-based and isolated models, which limits the ability to jointly analyze knowledge across different systems. Meanwhile, Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied in intelligent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zihe Wang , Yihuan Wang , Haiyang Yu. Zhiyong Cui , Xiaojian Liao , Chengcheng Wang , Yonglin Tian , Yongxin Tong

Recent advancements in large vision language models (VLMs) tailored for autonomous driving (AD) have shown strong scene understanding and reasoning capabilities, making them undeniable candidates for end-to-end driving systems. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Shuo Xing , Hongyuan Hua , Xiangbo Gao , Shenzhe Zhu , Renjie Li , Kexin Tian , Xiaopeng Li , Heng Huang , Tianbao Yang , Zhangyang Wang , Yang Zhou , Huaxiu Yao , Zhengzhong Tu

Predicting the future trajectories of dynamic traffic actors is a cornerstone task in autonomous driving. Though existing notable efforts have resulted in impressive performance improvements, a gap persists in scene cognitive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Zhengxing Lan , Hongbo Li , Lingshan Liu , Bo Fan , Yisheng Lv , Yilong Ren , Zhiyong Cui

Vision Language Models excel in handling a wide range of complex tasks, including Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Visual Question Answering (VQA), and advanced geometric reasoning. However, these models fail to perform well on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Ayush Singh , Mansi Gupta , Shivank Garg

Recent research on Large Language Models for autonomous driving shows promise in planning and control. However, high computational demands and hallucinations still challenge accurate trajectory prediction and control signal generation.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Ziang Guo , Zakhar Yagudin , Artem Lykov , Mikhail Konenkov , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

Vision-language models (VLMs) have become a promising approach to enhancing perception and decision-making in autonomous driving. The gap remains in applying VLMs to understand complex scenarios interacting with pedestrians and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Haoxiang Gao , Li Zhang , Yu Zhao , Zhou Yang , Jinghan Cao

In recent years, autonomous driving systems have made significant progress, yet ensuring their safety remains a key challenge. To this end, scenario-based testing offers a practical solution, and simulation-based methods have gained…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Jiahui Wu , Chengjie Lu , Aitor Arrieta , Shaukat Ali

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

Despite recent advances in large language models (LLMs) for materials science, there is a lack of benchmarks for evaluating their domain-specific knowledge and complex reasoning abilities. To bridge this gap, we introduce MSQA, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Jerry Junyang Cheung , Shiyao Shen , Yuchen Zhuang , Yinghao Li , Rampi Ramprasad , Chao Zhang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have recently shown remarkable progress in multimodal reasoning, yet their applications in autonomous driving remain limited. In particular, the ability to understand road topology, a key requirement for safe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Xin Chen , Jia He , Maozheng Li , Dongliang Xu , Tianyu Wang , Yixiao Chen , Zhixin Lin , Yue Yao

Vision-language models (VLMs) show promise for autonomous driving but often lack transparent reasoning capabilities that are critical for safety. We investigate whether explicitly modeling reasoning during fine-tuning enhances VLM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Amirhosein Chahe , Lifeng Zhou