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AutoPRL: Automated Path Representation Learning via a Learnable View Generator

arXiv AI
Sep 10

DGCPath: Distribution-Aware Generative Contrastive Framework for Self-supervised Path Representation Learning -- Extended Version

DGCPath is a Distribution‑Aware Generative Contrastive framework designed for self‑supervised path representation learning. It combines a diffusion‑based view generator, a variational contrastive mechanism that aligns latent features at the distribution level, and a generative cross‑supervision module for view‑level consistency. Experiments on three real‑world trajectory datasets show that DGCPath surpasses state‑of‑the‑art baselines on two downstream tasks, indicating stronger generalization and representation effectiveness.

By Sean Bin Yang, Hao Miao, Zongyi Xu, Jilin Hu, Xiangmeng Wang, Hua Lu, Bin Yang, Christian S. Jensen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

Capturing Context-Aware Route Choice Semantics for Trajectory Representation Learning

arXiv:2510. 14819v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Trajectory representation learning (TRL) aims to encode raw trajectory data into low-dimensional embeddings for downstream tasks such as travel time estimation, mobility prediction, and trajectory similarity analysis.

By Ji Cao, Yu Wang, Tongya Zheng, Jie Song, Qinghong Guo, Zujie Ren, Canghong Jin, Gang Chen, Mingli Song
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

An Ensemble-Based Self-Taught Learning Approach for Parking Space Classification Under Limited Data

The paper proposes an ensemble-based self‑taught learning framework for parking space classification that uses unsupervised convolutional autoencoders to learn transferable visual representations from unlabeled data. These learned encoders serve as fixed feature extractors for supervised classification with limited annotated samples, and an ensemble of heterogeneous autoencoders with independent classifier heads is employed to enhance robustness and reduce architectural bias. Experiments on PKLot and CNRPark benchmarks demonstrate that this approach significantly lowers annotation requirements while achieving high accuracies (93–96%) under cross‑dataset evaluation protocols.

By Lucas de Oliveira Cunha, Joelton Deonei Gotz, Paulo Lisboa de Almeida, Andre Gustavo Hochuli
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 28

WALT: Learning World-Model-Aligned Latent Trajectories for Autonomous Driving

WALT introduces a method to align latent trajectories with pretrained driving world models, creating a compact generative trajectory space that preserves action-relevant semantics without altering the original model. The approach uses a dual-branch autoencoder to map raw waypoints into this latent space and transfers visual world knowledge into trajectory representations. Experiments on NAVSIM benchmarks show modest performance gains and a 30.5% reduction in planner FLOPs, indicating that maintaining world representations while extracting action-relevant information can improve trajectory planning efficiency.

By Mingkai Jia, Jiaxin Guo, Zhijian Shu, Jiawei Xu, Mingxiao Li, Jintao Cheng, Ping Tan, Wei Yin
arXiv AI
Oct 15

DriveWLA: Unifying Future Dynamics and Scene Semantics through World-Language-Action Modeling for Autonomous Driving

DriveWLA is a unified World‑Language‑Action model that integrates semantic understanding, future scene dynamics, and trajectory generation for autonomous driving. It employs a Mixture‑of‑Transformers architecture with three experts—World, Language, and Action—connected by Cross‑Expert Attention to align semantic and dynamic representations. After reinforcement learning refinement, DriveWLA outperforms existing VLM‑based and world‑model‑based planners on NAVSIM benchmarks and generalizes well to other datasets without fine‑tuning.

By Shuzheng Wang, Haoxuan Li, Shengzhen Li, Chenxi Wu, Yajing Sun, Lu Hou, Wenyu Liu, Xinggang Wang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 6

TGRIP: A Text-Guided Approach to Vehicle Instance Prediction in Autonomous Driving

Bird's-Eye View (BEV) end-to-end instance prediction has emerged as a robust paradigm for autonomous driving perception, effectively mitigating the error propagation inherent in traditional modular pipelines. However, current state-of-the-art approaches rely predominantly on geometric supervision, such as occupancy regression and optical flow, effectively treating scene agents as generic moving obstacles.