arXiv AI
Jun 2
From Cues to Horizons: Dynamic Risk Horizon Profiling for Trajectory Prediction
arXiv:2606. 00857v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate and reliable vehicle trajectory prediction is essential for safe autonomous driving.
Risk-Aware World Modeling with Flow-Guided Occupancy Evolution for Selective Trajectory Planning in Automated Driving
RiskWorld is a risk‑aware world modeling framework that forecasts shared occupancy and selectively replaces planned trajectories in automated driving. It fuses spatial risk fields, temporal actor context, and visual bird’s‑eye‑view features, using flow‑guided evolution to transport occupancy and signed residuals to correct it. In open‑loop planning on nuScenes, RiskWorld achieves the lowest collision rate over a 3‑second horizon and the second‑best average L2 error, running at 11.5 FPS on a single NVIDIA RTX 4090.
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arXiv AI
Sep 21
Driving on Registers, Reasoning on Risk: Risk-Aware Occupancy for Register-Based End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2609.21486v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal trajectory prediction improves behavioral coverage in end-to-end autonomous driving, but existing methods remain limited by sparse scene rep...
arXiv AI
Sep 21
Risk-Aware Occupancy for Safety-Oriented End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2609.21470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse representation formulates the environment perception for the end-to-end driving system as a set of discrete elements like objects and lane lines...
arXiv AI
Sep 30
ExceptionDrive: A Planning-Oriented Counterfactual Corner-Case Benchmark for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2609.37871v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Average performance on routine driving benchmarks does not establish planner reliability under rare, safety-critical hazards. We proposed ExceptionDr...
arXiv AI
Oct 9
AffordDrive3D: Affordance-Aware World-Action Modeling with Spatial Understanding
AffordDrive3D is a world-action model that jointly learns future action-relevant regions and spatial geometry for autonomous driving. It uses a VLM backbone to forecast drivable areas and collision-critical regions while predicting future geometry from RGB world-model latents. On the NAVSIM benchmark, it achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance with 91.3 PDMS and 89.9 EPDMS, showing the benefit of combining affordance prediction with geometry modeling for trajectory planning.
arXiv AI
Jun 6
PLAN-S: Bridging Planning with Latent Style Dynamics for Autonomous Driving World Models
arXiv:2606. 06014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent world models (LWMs) have strengthened end-to-end autonomous driving by forecasting compact scene dynamics for downstream planning.
arXiv AI
Jun 30
LWDrive: Layer-Wise World-Model-Guided Vision-Language Model Planning for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2606. 29879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) provide powerful semantic understanding and commonsense reasoning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving (E2E-AD) planning.
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18
WZPlanner: Safe End-to-End Path Planning for Autonomous Driving in Work Zones
The paper introduces WZPlanner, a new dataset and model for safe autonomous driving in work zones. The dataset, WorkZonePlan, contains over 149,000 synthetic and 5,000 real-world samples with 3D annotations for lane and work zone boundaries, plus 228 evaluation routes in CARLA. The proposed BoundaryFormer (BF) and its enhanced BF++ variants jointly predict lane/work‑zone boundaries and driving trajectories, achieving higher Driving Scores while being significantly smaller than competing models.
arXiv AI
Jul 2
What's Hidden Matters: Identifying Planning-Critical Occluded Agents using Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2607. 00283v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous vehicles must safely navigate complex environments where planning-critical agents may be hidden from view.
arXiv AI
Jun 6
WorldFly: A World-Model-Based Vision-Language-Action Model for UAV Navigation
arXiv:2606. 06147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown promise in UAV navigation.
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 9
PlanWAM: Planning-Shaped Future Representations for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
PlanWAM introduces a Planning‑Shaped World Action Model that tailors future‑state representations to be most useful for trajectory planning in end‑to‑end autonomous driving. It compresses historical observations with a Temporal Register Pyramid, shapes a future latent representation using a privileged posterior branch guided by planning objectives, and distills this into a prior branch that predicts the representation from history alone. The resulting foresighted planning context yields state‑of‑the‑art performance on NAVSIM and HUGSIM benchmarks.
arXiv AI
Aug 20
DA-WAM: Decision-Aligned Future Latents for Driving World Models
DA‑WAM is a framework that integrates predictive representation learning, action‑conditioned future modeling, and trajectory scoring into a single decision‑making objective for autonomous driving. It uses an online encoder with a stable momentum target to keep future representations aligned with the driving task, generating a distinct future latent for each trajectory candidate. A future‑latent‑conditioned scorer evaluates these latents, with expert‑matched trajectories supervised by observed futures and safety‑critical hard negatives providing additional guidance, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results on NAVSIM‑v1 and NAVSIM‑v2.