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GuidedWAM framework enhances frozen autonomous driving models without retraining

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Researchers have developed GuidedWAM, a novel framework designed to enhance the control of frozen World Action Models (WAMs) in autonomous driving without requiring retraining. This model-agnostic approach utilizes energy guidance to inject new driving objectives into existing WAMs during the sampling process. Experiments on the NAVSIM v2 dataset demonstrated that GuidedWAM can improve the performance of publicly released WAMs by 1.8 to 3.6 EPDMS, adding minimal overhead to the sampling time. AI

IMPACT This research offers a method to adapt existing autonomous driving models to new objectives without costly retraining, potentially accelerating development and deployment.

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GuidedWAM framework enhances frozen autonomous driving models without retraining

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Xiyan Su, Finn Rasmus Sch\"afer, Hojun Lim, Frank Diermeyer, Johannes Betz, Markus Lienkamp ·

    GuidedWAM: Training-Free Energy Guidance for World Action Models in Autonomous Driving

    arXiv:2611.07912v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World action models (WAMs) for autonomous driving couple the driving policy and the visual world model in a single generative network whose objectives are fixed post-training. Conditioning on a new driving objective requires retrain…

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