arXiv:2503.08936v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scenario-based testing with driving simulators is extensively used to identify failing conditions of automated driving assistance systems (ADAS). However, existing studies have shown that repeated test execution in the sam…
arXiv:2607.08375v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have advanced end-to-end autonomous driving. However, existing methods either lack comprehensive world cognition or suffer from fragmented world foresight, inherently confining these models to r…
arXiv cs.AI
TIER_1English(EN)·Alessandro Canevaro, Hang Yu, Julian Schmidt, Peizheng Li, Silvan Lindner, Wilhelm Stork, Georg Martius, Julian Jordan·
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have advanced end-to-end autonomous driving. However, existing methods either lack comprehensive world cognition or suffer from fragmented world foresight, inherently confining these models to reactive driving. To address this limitation, we pr…
arXiv:2607.07601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety evaluation for autonomous driving is dominated by rare, safety-critical interactions, motivating simulators that can deliberately synthesize corner cases with photorealistic observations. Corner-case generation is inherentl…
arXiv:2607.07103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe autonomous driving requires both rapid responses to common high-risk events and deeper reasoning over rare, extreme long-tail scenarios in traffic safety. These scenarios are severely under-represented in naturalistic driving d…
End-to-end models that map multimodal inputs directly to future trajectories/maneuvers have emerged as an increasingly prominent research paradigm in autonomous driving. This class of models includes both Vision-Language-Action models and trajectory-generative planners. Unlike cl…
Safety evaluation for autonomous driving is dominated by rare, safety-critical interactions, motivating simulators that can deliberately synthesize corner cases with photorealistic observations. Corner-case generation is inherently a multi-source problem spanning visual represent…
Safe autonomous driving requires both rapid responses to common high-risk events and deeper reasoning over rare, extreme long-tail scenarios in traffic safety. These scenarios are severely under-represented in naturalistic driving data, and existing trajectory and language-augmen…
Safe autonomous driving requires both rapid responses to common high-risk events and deeper reasoning over rare, extreme long-tail scenarios in traffic safety. These scenarios are severely under-represented in naturalistic driving data, and existing trajectory and language-augmen…
arXiv cs.AI
TIER_1English(EN)·Franz Motzkus, Sebastian Bernhard·
arXiv:2607.06328v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing adoption of end-to-end learning for autonomous driving introduces increased model complexity and opacity, raising the risk of learning undesired or erroneous behavior. In this work, we integrate unsupervised dictionar…
The increasing adoption of end-to-end learning for autonomous driving introduces increased model complexity and opacity, raising the risk of learning undesired or erroneous behavior. In this work, we integrate unsupervised dictionary learning as a post hoc interpretability module…
arXiv cs.AI
TIER_1English(EN)·Zhaohong Liu, Hao Ye, Xianlin Zhang, Mengshi Qi·
arXiv:2607.04179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show immense potential in autonomous driving. However, standard Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) often suffers from reasoning hallucinations and conservative biases. While traditional tool-augm…
arXiv cs.LG
TIER_1English(EN)·Zhuoren Li, Guizhe Jin, Ran Yu, Weiqi Zhang, Zhiwen Chen, Nan Li, Lu Xiong, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Dimitar Filev, Bo Leng, Jia Hu·
arXiv:2503.23650v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL), with its ability to explore and optimize policies in complex, dynamic decision-making tasks, has emerged as a promising approach to addressing motion planning (MoP) challenges in autonomous driving (…
arXiv:2607.08072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end models that map multimodal inputs directly to future trajectories/maneuvers have emerged as an increasingly prominent research paradigm in autonomous driving. This class of models includes both Vision-Language-Action mode…
arXiv cs.CV
TIER_1English(EN)·Zhenxin Li, Nadine Chang, Wenhao Yao, Xinglong Sun, Zi Wang, Maying Shen, Jingde Chen, Jingyu Song, Kailin Li, Zuxuan Wu, Shiyi Lan, Jose M. Alvarez·
arXiv:2510.24108v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Human demonstrations are widely considered the cornerstone of end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving despite human demonstration's scarcity for long-tail and safety-critical scenarios. Nonetheless, current E2E autonomous driv…
arXiv cs.CV
TIER_1English(EN)·Salman Khan, Izzeddin Teeti, Reza Javanmard Alitappeh, Mihaela C. Stoian, Eleonora Giunchiglia, Gurkirt Singh, Andrew Bradley, Fabio Cuzzolin·
arXiv:2411.01683v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous Vehicle (AV) perception systems require more than simply seeing, via e.g., object detection or scene segmentation. They need a holistic understanding of what is happening within the scene for safe interaction with oth…
End-to-end models that map multimodal inputs directly to future trajectories/maneuvers have emerged as an increasingly prominent research paradigm in autonomous driving. This class of models includes both Vision-Language-Action models and trajectory-generative planners. Unlike cl…
arXiv:2607.05783v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Environmental illusions (eg., shadows, reflections, and tire marks) are naturally existing yet overlooked phenomena in real-world driving environments. They can disturb visual perception, leading to misinterpretation of the scene an…
Evaluating end-to-end autonomous driving (E2E-AD) remains challenging, as existing driving simulation methods often trade off closed-loop interactivity (e.g., CARLA) and real-world visual fidelity (e.g., nuScenes). We present \textbf{\emph{Point as Skeleton}}, a generative sensor…
arXiv cs.CV
TIER_1English(EN)·Yunxiao Shi, Hong Cai, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Fatih Porikli·
arXiv:2607.02841v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving (E2E-AD) aims to directly map raw sensor information to driving actions. Recently, with the rapid advancement of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs), researchers have proposed the paradigm of Vi…
arXiv cs.CV
TIER_1English(EN)·Junru Gu, Lijin Yang, Jianing Huang, Shu Liu, Zhongzhan Huang, Hang Zhao·
arXiv:2607.04689v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safe operation of autonomous vehicles in dense urban traffic depends on perception and planning that remain reliable when onboard sensing is degraded. In real driving conditions, camera observations are frequently corrupted by occ…
