arXiv AI

WaymoQA: A Multi-View Visual Question Answering Dataset for Safety-Critical Reasoning in Autonomous Driving

arXiv AI
Jul 10

AUTOPILOT VQA: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Incident-Centric Dashcam Understanding

arXiv:2607. 08745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Vision-Language Models, Large Language Models, and Multimodal Large Language Models have improved autonomous driving tasks such as scene understanding, decision making, trajectory prediction, and visual question answering.

By Siddharth Damodharan, Radhika Gupta, Ali Alshami, Ryan Rabinowitz, Jugal Kalita
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 23

UniDrive: A Unified Vision-Language and Grounding Framework for Interpretable Risk Understanding in Autonomous Driving

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential for autonomous driving scene understanding, yet existing methods still face a fundamental trade-off between temporal reasoning and spatial precision. Models that rely on single-frame or low-resolution inputs often miss small, distant, or partially occluded hazards, while language-centric driving models frequently provide limited grounded evidence for their explanations.

arXiv AI
Jun 24

UniDrive: A Unified Vision-Language and Grounding Framework for Interpretable Risk Understanding in Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2606. 24759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential for autonomous driving scene understanding, yet existing methods still face a fundamental trade-off between temporal reasoning and spatial precision.

By Xiaowei Gao, Pengxiang Li, Yitai Cheng, Ruihan Xu, James Haworth, Stephen Law, Yun Ye
arXiv AI
Jul 14

Technical Report on the CVPR 2026@AdvML Workshop Challenge

arXiv:2607. 11560v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language agents (VLAs) are increasingly used to interpret complex driving scenes and support safety-critical reasoning.

By Tianyuan Zhang, Zonglei Jing, Jiangfan Liu, Ligong Zhang, Ke Ma, Chengzhi Sun, Xiaohai Xu, Zhirui Zhang, Qianqian Xu, Qingming Huang, Hanyu Fang, Junhua Liu, Zheng Wang, Xiaoliang Liu, Yuanbo Li, Shuai Gui, Bin Wang, Menghe Zheng, Jing Nie, Hanyang Meng, Zeyang Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Yongxuan Zhu, Rui Ding, Hainan Li, Yongkang Zhang, Zhilei Zhu, Xianglong Kong, Jin Hu, Zonghao Ying, Yisong Xiao, Lei Chen, Haotong Qin, Jiakai Wang, Aishan Liu, Ruikai Li, Julia Karbing, Yinpeng Dong, Zhenfei Yin, Shao Jing, Xia Hu, Jingyi Xu, Juntao Dai, Xinyun Chen, Vishal M. Patel, Xianglong Liu, Dawn Song, Alan Yuille, Philip H. S. Torr, Dacheng Tao
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 30

CAR-VLA: Complexity-Aware and Risk-Adaptive Reasoning for Autonomous Driving

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 Computer Vision
Aug 21

CAViAR: A Causal Video Dataset for Fine-Grained Accident Reasoning in Real-World Scenarios

arXiv:2608. 19380v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While modern autonomous driving systems excel at perception tasks such as object detection and trajectory prediction, they lack the high-level causal reasoning required to interpret traffic accidents.

By Sparsh Garg, Yi-Wen Chen, Vijay Kumar B G, Abhishek Aich
arXiv AI
Jun 2

From Segments to Scenes: Temporal Understanding in Autonomous Driving via Vision-Language Model

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 AI
Jun 16

OmniTraffic: A Controllable Generation Pipeline and Benchmark for Spatio-Temporal Traffic Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 15749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traffic scene understanding requires models to reason beyond object recognition, including lane topology, multi-view geometry, temporal evolution, and signal-phase semantics.

By Maonan Wang, Zhengyan Huang, Kemou Jiang, Yuhang Fu, Jiayue Zhu, Yuxin Cai, Xingchen Zou, Qiaosheng Zhang, Yi Yu, Ding Wang, Xi Chen, Ben M. Chen, Yuxuan Liang, Zhiyong Cui, Man On Pun, Yirong Chen
arXiv AI
Sep 21

HERMES: A Holistic End-to-End Risk-Aware Multimodal Embodied System with Vision-Language Models for Long-Tail Autonomous Driving

HERMES is a holistic end‑to‑end multimodal driving framework that incorporates long‑tail semantic knowledge into trajectory planning for autonomous vehicles. It uses a foundation‑model‑assisted annotation pipeline to build Long‑Tail Scene Context and Long‑Tail Planning Context, capturing hazard‑centric scene information, maneuver intent, and risk‑aware guidance. A Tri‑Modal Driving Module then fuses multi‑view visual observations, historical ego‑motion, and long‑tail semantic instructions to generate intent‑ and risk‑aware trajectories, achieving consistent performance gains on a large‑scale real‑world long‑tail driving benchmark.

By Weizhe Tang, Junwei You, Jiaxi Liu, Zhaoyi Wang, Rui Gan, Zilin Huang, Feng Wei, Bin Ran