arXiv Machine Learning

A Mathematical Framework and a Suite of Learning Techniques for Neural-Symbolic Systems

arXiv AI
Jul 3

DriveVLM-RL: Neuroscience-Inspired Reinforcement Learning with Vision-Language Models for Safe and Deployable Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2603. 18315v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Traditional reinforcement learning (RL) methods rely on manually engineered rewards or sparse collision signals, which fail to capture the rich contextual understanding required for safe driving and make unsafe exploration unavoidable in real-world settings.

By Zilin Huang, Zihao Sheng, Zhengyang Wan, Yansong Qu, Junwei You, Sicong Jiang, Sikai Chen
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 16

NeuroSymbEAD: A Large Scale Neuro-Symbolic Caption Dataset for Omni-Directional Embodied Autonomous Driving

NeuroSymbEAD is a large‑scale neuro‑symbolic caption dataset that builds an ego‑centric knowledge graph of static and dynamic objects on the KITTI‑360 dataset, annotating classes, categories, heading directions, orientations, and distances from the ego‑vehicle. The dataset generates multilevel textual captions that serve as a lightweight representation of an ego‑centric scene map, enabling outdoor scene‑map reconstruction, visual recognition, and object grounding. Baselines for driving common sense and traffic/scene understanding are established, and the dataset is benchmarked using pre‑trained grounding and learned auto‑regressive captioning networks to support vision‑language and foundation models for traffic‑scene explanation, 3D reasoning, and interpretable autonomous‑driving perception.

By Muhammad Ahmed Ullah Khan, Mohammed Elamine, Sheikh Talha Uddin, Didier Stricker, Sk Aziz Ali, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Dual Process Motion Planning

The paper introduces a dual‑process architecture for nonlinear motion planning that blends fast, learning‑based intuition (System‑1) with slow, robust symbolic reasoning (System‑2). A metacognitive controller decides when to use each component, aiming to balance speed, precision, and adaptability. Experiments on diverse benchmark environments show consistent improvements in planning efficiency, accuracy, and generalization, highlighting the benefits of integrating learning with structured reasoning.

By Jiayi Yan, Francesco Fabiano, Alessandro Abate