arXiv AI
Oct 15

AUGUstus: Autonomous Driving VLA Model with Unified Generation and Understanding

arXiv:2610.16985v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models show strong potential for end-to-end autonomous driving by leveraging world knowledge and understanding to excel...

By Yuqi Ye, Caigao Jiang, Zhuonan Wang, Congyuan Pei, Chao Qu, Changhao Peng, Junhong Lin, Qize Yu, Zetian Song, Guangzhao Fu, Chongruo Wu, Shiyu Huang, Shuchang Zhou, Honggou Yang, Wei Gao
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 1

Vision-Language-Action Autonomous Driving Agent with Language-based Memory

arXiv:2609.38641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation models have recently emerged as one of the prevailing solutions for autonomous driving, as they can utilize kno...

By Kai Yan, Xiangyu Chen, Yulong Cao, Alex Naumann, Peter Karkus, Yan Wang, Jef Packer, Alex Schwing, Yuxiong Wang, Boris Ivanovic, Wenjie Luo, Marco Pavone
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 21

DriveVLA-M0: Failure-Aware Memory Augmentation for Autonomous Driving

DriveVLA-M0 introduces a failure-aware latent memory system for Vision‑Language‑Action models in autonomous driving. It stores past failure cases with scene representations and expert trajectories, and uses a retrieval model to decouple static road structure from dynamic agent interactions. During inference, retrieved cases are injected via a lightweight LoRA‑based test‑time training mechanism, yielding significant performance gains on NAVSIM benchmarks with minimal latency overhead.

By Zebin Xing, Yupeng Zheng, Qiang Chen, Linbo Wang, Yichen Zhang, Pengxuan Yang, Junli Wang, Deheng Qian, Xiaoqing Ye, Junyu Han, Yifeng Pan, Qichao Zhang, Dongbin Zhao
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

Continuous Actions from Discrete Minds: Latent-Aligned Planning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 29

TurboVLA: Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Model at 32 Hz on an RTX 4090 with <1 GB VRAM

Vision-language-action (VLA) models commonly adopt an LLM-centric $V \to L \to A$ pathway, where visual observations are projected into the representation space of a large language model before being decoded into robot actions. Although effective, this design incurs substantial computation and memory overhead at every policy invocation.