arXiv:2603. 06576v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous driving has attracted growing interest for their strong reasoning and semantic understanding abilities, which are essential for handling complex decision-making and long-tail scenarios.
By Thomas Monninger, Shaoyuan Xie, Qi Alfred Chen, Sihao Ding
Qwen-Drive-1.0 is a vision‑language foundation model tailored for autonomous driving that builds on a pretrained VLM architecture. It incorporates a bird’s‑eye‑view perception head for 3D object detection, semantic occupancy prediction, and BEV map segmentation, and a Planning Expert that generates future ego trajectories from shared representations. Experiments show strong 3D perception, driving scene understanding, and competitive motion‑planning performance while largely preserving general vision‑language capabilities.
By Xin Zhou, Zongchuang Zhao, Zhibo Yang, Mingsheng Li, Humen Zhong, Shuai Bai, Du Chu, Ruizhe Chen, Zhaohai Li, Jun Tang, Qiuyue Wang, Mingkun Yang, Jiazhao Zhang, Dayiheng Liu, Dingkang Liang, Xiang Bai
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.
We present Qwen-Drive-1.0, an initial step towards a vision-language foundation model for autonomous driving. Qwen-Drive-1.0 retains the architecture of the pretrained vision-language model (VLM) and...
arXiv:2607. 03182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous driving planning requires translating navigation intent, traffic rules, dynamic interactions, and language instructions into executable continuous trajectories.
By Qi Liu, Yabei Li, Hongsong Wang, Heng Zhang, Lei He
arXiv:2608.28762v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent advances in visual question answering (VQA) and multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have enabled natural-language reasoning over traffic sc...
By Shaozu Ding, Linan Song, Dajiang Suo
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.
By Shihao Ji, HongXi Li, Zihui Song, Mingyu Li
arXiv:2608.21440v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have advanced end-to-end autonomous driving by leveraging foundation models for semantic reasoning and long-tail...
By Ran Chen, Jiaxing Ren, Zhikun Zhang, Yunhao Hou, Junbao Zhuo, Bochao Zou
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.
By Chen Yang, Yuhao Wei, Ze Xu, Ziheng Zou, Shuang Liang, Delin Ouyang, Lingfeng Qi, Jie Li, Guofa Li
The paper introduces LaPla, a Vision‑Language‑Action framework that uses a latent‑aligned planning approach to convert discrete semantic reasoning into continuous, physics‑constrained driving actions. It employs a residual VQ‑VAE to encode vehicle kinematics into a structured latent space, then projects multimodal inputs—images, past actions, and text—directly into this latent space, allowing a frozen decoder to generate physically plausible trajectories without quantization errors. Experiments on nuScenes and NVIDIA AlpaSim show LaPla reduces long‑horizon L2 error by 15.52% and improves closed‑loop success rates by 33.34 percentage points while cutting inference latency.
By Ruoyu Yao, Yusen Xie, Qingzhao Liu, Pei Liu, Zewei Yang, Yipeng Zhu, Xiaolong Wang, Jun Ma
arXiv:2503.13938v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Comprehensive traffic scene understanding is a foundational capability for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) underpinning applications...
By Qingyao Xu, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang, Siheng Chen
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