Pivot-Centric Trajectory Prediction: Bridging Long Horizons via Dynamical Guidance
arXiv:2608. 03521v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Forecasting precise future motion of surrounding agents is essential for reliable autonomous vehicles.
FutureLift is a refiner that transforms multimodal motion proposals into heterogeneous future graphs, linking temporal nodes to agent histories, map elements, alternative modes, and other agents’ future trajectories. Its bidirectional temporal edges enable later evidence to revise earlier segments in a single pass, producing residual coordinate and confidence corrections. Evaluated on Argoverse2 and the Waymo Open Motion Dataset, FutureLift consistently improves frozen proposals and outperforms other refiners, achieving top leaderboard rankings on the WOMD motion‑prediction benchmark without LiDAR or ensembling.
arXiv:2608. 03521v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Forecasting precise future motion of surrounding agents is essential for reliable autonomous vehicles.
FutureWorlds is a framework that learns robotic world models by generating alternative future predictions and using them as learning signals. It combines candidate construction, history maintenance, and learning from relative quality through a multimodal discrete autoregressive model and diverse beam search. The MemSPO algorithm further optimizes the world model by converting video trajectory rewards into group-relative advantages, leading to significant improvements in LPIPS scores across RT-1, BridgeV2, and RoboCasa datasets.
arXiv:2606.18558v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Motion forecasting is central to visual intelligence: agents must anticipate how objects will move in order to plan actions, reason about physical...
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:2610.26903v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action-conditioned world models support planning and policy evaluation by predicting future states. However, learning an accurate one-step predictor ca...
PACT‑WAM is a world‑action model that simultaneously predicts a 16‑step action trajectory and its corresponding visual forecast for robot manipulation. It uses a hierarchical history encoder that compresses past observations into fewer tokens, reducing processing cost by 75% compared to dense encoding. The model’s shared flow module updates action and visual states jointly, and a TiTok‑VAE decoder reconstructs multi‑view future images, which are then used by a vision‑language component (Proposal Review) to improve execution‑prefix selection and proposal rejection, boosting success rates on several benchmarks.
arXiv:2608.20974v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (V-JEPA) learns powerful spatiotemporal representations from video through self-supervised latent featu...
WALT introduces a method to align latent trajectories with pretrained driving world models, creating a compact generative trajectory space that preserves action-relevant semantics without altering the original model. The approach uses a dual-branch autoencoder to map raw waypoints into this latent space and transfers visual world knowledge into trajectory representations. Experiments on NAVSIM benchmarks show modest performance gains and a 30.5% reduction in planner FLOPs, indicating that maintaining world representations while extracting action-relevant information can improve trajectory planning efficiency.
MC-DeTra is a reimplementation of the DeTra model that jointly performs object detection and socially-aware trajectory forecasting in bird's-eye-view images. It introduces motion-consistency mechanisms that add supervision from each actor’s past motion, surrounding traffic occupancy, and a consistency constraint aligning predicted heading with motion direction. The added losses are train‑only and inference‑safe, improving dynamic trajectory forecasting on the Waymo Open Dataset while maintaining or enhancing detection accuracy.
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.
SimVTA is a post‑training framework that enhances driving world action models by aligning simulated future videos with candidate trajectories. It samples trajectories, renders high‑reward futures in a real‑world simulator using 3D Gaussian Splatting, and prioritizes video supervision for high‑error futures. The approach improves planning performance, raising PDMS from 86.2 to 91.3 on NAVSIM v1 and achieving strong results on NAVSIM v2 and HUGSIM.
arXiv:2610.35044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models are emerging as a fundamental component of policy learning for real-world agents, enabling agents to predict future world states and plan...