arXiv:2609.38028v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Autonomous vehicles interacting with passengers through natural language must reason beyond immediate commands. Passenger intent may span multiple st...
By Parthib Roy, Yash Tandon, Marcus Blennemann, Giovanni Tapia Lopez, Angel Martinez-Sanchez, Mohan M. Trivedi, Ross Greer
CAR‑VLA is a Vision‑Language‑Action model for autonomous driving that jointly considers scene complexity and dynamic risk to determine reasoning depth, urgency, and focus. It maps four complexity‑risk categories to three reasoning modes—Fast Intuition, Slow Thinking, and Reflex Response—each tailored to different driving scenarios. The model is trained via progressive supervised learning and reinforcement learning, achieving competitive performance on NAVSIM and Navhard benchmarks and demonstrating risk‑aware reasoning in high‑risk scenarios.
By Xiaolei Chen, Zhuolin He, Yuxuan Liang, Xu Li, Haotian Chen, Fan Shi, Mengyang Zhao, Wenjuan Meng, Zisheng Chen, Zhihao Zhu, Zhounan Jin, Hengli Wang, Qingfan Wang, Jiamei Liang, Bin Li, Xiangyang Xue
arXiv:2605.21139v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Current end-to-end autonomous driving models are fundamentally constrained by the behavioral cloning ceiling of imitation learning. While rei...
By Yang Wu, Qiang Meng, Zhaojiang Liu, Youquan Liu, Jian Yang, Jin Xie
arXiv:2512. 05277v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed as the perception and reasoning backbone of autonomous agents acting in the wild, with autonomous driving (AD) being one of the most safety-critical instances.
By Kevin Cannons, Saeed Ranjbar Alvar, Mohammad Asiful Hossain, Ahmad Rezaei, Mohsen Gholami, Alireza Heidarikhazaei, Zhou Weimin, Yong Zhang, Mohammad Akbari
arXiv:2512. 05277v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed as the perception and reasoning backbone of autonomous agents acting in the wild, with autonomous driving (AD) being one of the most safety-critical instances.
By Kevin Cannons, Saeed Ranjbar Alvar, Mohammad Asiful Hossain, Ahmad Rezaei, Mohsen Gholami, Alireza Heidarikhazaei, Zhou Weimin, Yong Zhang, Mohammad Akbari
arXiv:2610.07954v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Language-based trajectory predictors represent coordinates as discrete tokens and learn auxiliary tasks such as destination and group reasoning. This f...
By JunGyu Lee, Inhwan Bae, Hae-Gon Jeon
arXiv:2610.02765v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Monitoring planned driving trajectories requires accurately estimating the collision likelihood with actors whose motion is itself impacted by the eg...
By Lu\'is Marques, Rong Fang, Disha Kamale, Dmitry Berenson
DriveMind is a multimodal large language model (MLLM) framework for autonomous driving that maintains multiple hypotheses about a traffic scene and updates their weights as new frames arrive, inspired by particle filtering. By propagating each hypothesis through a vision-language model, scoring against current observations, and resampling to preserve diversity, DriveMind improves driving performance on the Bench2Drive benchmark, raising the Driving Score from 68.50 to 81.37 and the Success Rate from 41.36% to 54.09%. The approach yields the largest gains in ambiguous scenarios such as unsignalized intersections and oncoming-traffic interactions, and also enhances fine‑grained interactive driving tasks like merging, emergency braking, and give‑way.
By Yan Shi, Kehua Chen, Jiarui Qi, Yihong Tang, Haichen Liao, Yinhai Wang
arXiv:2611.06007v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Motorized Two-Wheelers (MTWs) dominate personal transport across much of the Global South, yet remain largely overlooked in predictive perception resea...
By Varun A. Paturkar, Shankar Gangisetty, C. V. Jawahar
Intent misinterpretation during vehicle interactions causes recurring planning failures. We study a decision layer in which a language-guided intent module reads structured descriptors, computes a smo...
arXiv:2610.31835v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Temporary traffic control redirects vehicles through work zones, requiring automated vehicles to connect an interpretation of the visible devices to a...
By Jiaxi Liu, Keshu Wu, Weizhe Tang, Bofeng Cao, Sikai Chen, Xiaopeng Li, Steven T. Parker, Bin Ran
arXiv:2605.10426v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving. However, existing reasoning mecha...
By Minqing Huang, Yujiao Xiang, Zihan Liang, Jiajie Huang, Jingqi Wang, Yuheng Zhou, Zhi Xu, Feiyang Tan, Hangning Zhou, Mu Yang, Gong Che