arXiv:2606. 03159v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As autonomous vehicle capabilities advance, the safe evaluation of driving policies in long-tail scenarios remains a critical bottleneck.
By NVIDIA, :, Aarti Basant, Amlan Kar, Despoina Paschalidou, Fangyin Wei, Francesco Ferroni, Guillermo Garcia Cobo, Haithem Turki, Huan Ling, Jaewoo Seo, James Lucas, Jay Zhangjie Wu, Jialiang Wang, Jonathan Lorraine, Jun Gao, Kai He, Katarina Tothova, Kevin Xie, Micha{\l} Tyszkiewicz, Qi Wu, Riccardo de Lutio, Ruilong Li, Sanja Fidler, Seung Wook Kim, Tianchang Shen, Tianshi Cao, Tobias Pfaff, William Lew, Xindi Wu, Xuanchi Ren, Yifan Lu, Yuxuan Zhang, Zan Gojcic, Zian Wang
As autonomous vehicle capabilities advance, the safe evaluation of driving policies in long-tail scenarios remains a critical bottleneck. In closed-loop simulation, the driving policy model actively interacts with the environment, where its actions dynamically update the simulator state and directly influence the next set of generated sensor observations.
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.
By Changhui Jing, Haochen Tian, Hongchen Li, Tianyu Li, Caojun Wang, Zihao Zhang, Yanhao Liu, Chengen Xie, Bailin Li, Hao Zhao, Zhenjie Yang
arXiv:2609.22762v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generative world-action models (WAMs) jointly generate future video and vehicle actions, while their action branches remain primarily optimized by expe...
By Fengcheng Yu, Dhruv Parikh, Junjie Ye, Maulik Bhatt, Thang Vu, Igor Vasiljevic, Vitor Guizilini, Yue Wang
arXiv:2603. 28963v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Simulation with realistic traffic agents is essential for validating autonomous driving systems.
By Mozhgan Pourkeshavarz, Tianran Liu, Nicholas Rhinehart
arXiv:2609.36851v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving policies are commonly trained via imitation learning on logged demonstrations without observing the consequences of their...
By Hongbin Lin, Chaoda Zheng, Yiming Yang, Xiangyu Li, Shijia Chen, Jinhao Deng, Kangjie Chen, Dongbin Zhang, Jie Feng, Yu Zhang, Xianming Liu, Shuguang Cui, Boyang Wang, Zhen Li