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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are emerging as a promising paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving, valued for their potential to leverage world knowledge and reason about complex driving scenes. However, existing methods suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xinyang Wang , Qian Liu , Wenjie Ding , Zhao Yang , Wei Li , Chang Liu , Bailin Li , Kun Zhan , Xianpeng Lang , Wei Chen

We present OpenDriveVLA, a Vision Language Action model designed for end-to-end autonomous driving, built upon open-source large language models. OpenDriveVLA generates spatially grounded driving actions by leveraging multimodal inputs,…

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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

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

The safe deployment of autonomous driving systems (ADSs) relies on comprehensive testing and evaluation. However, safety-critical scenarios that can effectively expose system vulnerabilities are extremely sparse in the real world. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Xinzheng Wu , Junyi Chen , Naiting Zhong , Yong Shen

Autonomous Driving (AD) encounters significant safety hurdles in long-tail unforeseen driving scenarios, largely stemming from the non-interpretability and poor generalization of the deep neural networks within the AD system, particularly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Yixuan Wang , Ruochen Jiao , Sinong Simon Zhan , Chengtian Lang , Chao Huang , Zhaoran Wang , Zhuoran Yang , Qi Zhu

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models aim to control robots for manipulation from visual observations and natural-language instructions. However, existing hierarchical and autoregressive paradigms often introduce architectural overhead,…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for autonomous driving increasingly adopt generative planners trained with imitation learning followed by reinforcement learning. Diffusion-based planners suffer from modality alignment difficulties, low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Chenxu Dang , Sining Ang , Yongkang Li , Haochen Tian , Jie Wang , Guang Li , Hangjun Ye , Jie Ma , Long Chen , Yan Wang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have emerged as a promising direction for end-to-end autonomous driving (AD) by jointly modeling visual observations, driving context, and language-based reasoning. However, existing VLM-based systems face a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ximeng Tao , Pardis Taghavi , Dimitar Filev , Reza Langari , Gaurav Pandey

Rapid advancements in Autonomous Driving (AD) tasks turned a significant shift toward end-to-end fashion, particularly in the utilization of vision-language models (VLMs) that integrate robust logical reasoning and cognitive abilities to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Yifan Bai , Dongming Wu , Yingfei Liu , Fan Jia , Weixin Mao , Ziheng Zhang , Yucheng Zhao , Jianbing Shen , Xing Wei , Tiancai Wang , Xiangyu Zhang

Discrete diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of models and a promising route to fast language generation, but practical implementations typically rely on factored reverse transitions ignoring cross-token dependencies and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Dario Shariatian , Alain Durmus , Umut Simsekli , Stefano Peluchetti

End-to-end autonomous driving (AD) systems increasingly adopt vision-language-action (VLA) models, yet they typically ignore the passenger's emotional state, which is central to comfort and AD acceptance. We introduce Open-Domain End-to-End…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yihong Tang , Haicheng Liao , Tong Nie , Junlin He , Ao Qu , Kehua Chen , Wei Ma , Zhenning Li , Lijun Sun , Chengzhong Xu

Autonomous driving (AD) systems relying solely on onboard sensors may fail to detect distant or obstacle hazards, potentially causing preventable collisions; however, existing transformer-based Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) approaches, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Fengze Yang , Bo Yu , Yang Zhou , Xuewen Luo , Zhengzhong Tu , Chenxi Liu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offer a promising approach to end-to-end autonomous driving due to their human-like reasoning capabilities. However, troublesome gaps remains between current VLMs and real-world autonomous driving applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hao Jiang , Chuan Hu , Yukang Shi , Yuan He , Ke Wang , Xi Zhang , Zhipeng Zhang

Autonomous driving systems face significant challenges in handling unpredictable edge-case scenarios, such as adversarial pedestrian movements, dangerous vehicle maneuvers, and sudden environmental changes. Current end-to-end driving models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Dianwei Chen , Zifan Zhang , Lei Cheng , Yuchen Liu , Xianfeng Terry Yang

How to construct an interpretable autonomous driving decision-making system has become a focal point in academic research. In this study, we propose a novel approach that leverages large language models (LLMs) to generate executable,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Fanzhi Zeng , Siqi Wang , Chuzhao Zhu , Li Li

Multimodal generative models require a unified approach to handle both discrete data (e.g., text and code) and continuous data (e.g., image, audio, video). In this work, we propose Latent Language Modeling (LatentLM), which seamlessly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yutao Sun , Hangbo Bao , Wenhui Wang , Zhiliang Peng , Li Dong , Shaohan Huang , Jianyong Wang , Furu Wei

Vision-Large-Language-Models (Vision-LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into autonomous driving (AD) systems due to their advanced visual-language reasoning capabilities, targeting the perception, prediction, planning, and control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Nhat Chung , Sensen Gao , Tuan-Anh Vu , Jie Zhang , Aishan Liu , Yun Lin , Jin Song Dong , Qing Guo

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) have demonstrated immense potential in autonomous driving (AD) by offering human-like reasoning and open-world generalization. However, the excessive computational overhead and high…

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