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Auto-JEPA: A Latent World Model of Continuous Intent for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

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arXiv:2607. 29031v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing autonomous-driving world models typically perform dense prediction of future videos, occupancy states, BEV representations, or agent motion.

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