arXiv:2601.01762v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Practical autonomous driving requires models that generalize by reasoning through spatial-temporal possibilities to exclude unsafe outcomes....
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:2606. 06219v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving models often struggle to balance multi-modal maneuver generation with real-time inference constraints.
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.
The paper presents a comparative study of motion planning methods from major autonomous driving benchmarks—CARLA, nuPlan, and the Waymo Open Dataset—using CARLA Leaderboard v2.1 as a unified evaluation platform. Eight representative planners (TF++, InterFuser, TCP, PDM‑Lite, MTR+MPC, CaRL, PlanT 2.0, Diffusion planner) are evaluated to highlight their strengths, weaknesses, prevailing trends, and common challenges in motion planning research.
arXiv:2606. 20274v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling end-to-end autonomous driving to complex, open-world environments requires perceptual models that generalize to anomalous scenarios and planners that produce kinematically valid trajectories.
arXiv:2606. 26661v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Motion forecasting is essential for autonomous driving systems to enable safe decision-making and planning in complex driving scenarios.
arXiv:2607. 00283v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous vehicles must safely navigate complex environments where planning-critical agents may be hidden from view.
arXiv:2606. 21165v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present OmniV2X, a generative foundation model for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) cooperative driving.
The paper presents a single pretrained diffusion traffic model that serves both as an ego motion planner and as a controllable generator of safety‑critical scenarios for autonomous driving. It introduces a Single‑Stream Dual‑Stream diffusion‑transformer decoder (SSDS) that fuses scene context via joint attention, improving closed‑loop performance on the nuPlan benchmark, and a training‑free guidance scheme called Decoupled Annealing Posterior Sampling with Energy (DAPSE) that injects arbitrary energy functions at inference time. Using the same model, the authors generate realistic long‑tail driving interactions—such as aggressive cut‑ins and lead‑vehicle braking—through inference‑time guidance, exposing failure modes in black‑box planners that standard benchmarks miss.
Motion forecasting is essential for autonomous driving systems to enable safe decision-making and planning in complex driving scenarios. While existing predictors excel at minimizing standard displacement errors, they often overlook the adherence to lane topology of multimodal predictions, particularly for lower-probability modes.
arXiv:2607. 10565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end motion planning has emerged as a promising paradigm in autonomous driving, directly mapping raw sensor data to control commands via deep neural networks.