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.
arXiv:2606. 17386v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving has achieved state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks and real-world deployments.
By Zikang Xiong, Weixin Li, Zhouchonghao Wu, Akshay Rangesh, Saarth Bonde, Grantland Hall, Chen Tang, Yihan Hu, Wei Zhan
arXiv:2606. 28758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting future states is essential for autonomous agents, yet current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models fundamentally lack this capability, relying instead on reactive perception-action mapping.
By Bohao Zhao, Chengrui Wei, Guangfeng Jiang, Ruixin Liu, Xuejie Lv, Liu Liang, Sutao Deng, Xiuyang Fan, Pengkun Zheng, Jinyun Zhou, Rui Guo, Hanpeng Liu, Yutong Zheng, Yi Guo, Xinlong Zheng, Qingyu Luo, Zhuangzhuang Ding, Yu Zhang, Hang Zhang, Xianming Liu
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:2607. 11964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving requires long-horizon closedloop decision making in dynamic traffic environments.
By Yongzhi Liu, Yang Xiao, Zhong Cao, Zeng Kang, Sunan Zhang, Zhaozhi Dong, Guojun Yu, Weichao Zhuang
arXiv:2606. 07366v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-driving simulations typically rely on data collected in a small number of cities or on hand-authored synthetic scenarios.
By Anurag Ghosh, Francesco Pittaluga, Khiem Vuong, Angela Chen, Juan Alvarez-Padilla, Manmohan Chandraker, Srinivasa Narasimhan