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  1. Weather-Aware Domain Adaptation for Street-View Weather Recognition

    Oct 1, 2026Hossein Maghsoumi, George Atia, Yaser P. FallahAutonomous Driving PerceptionDomain Adaptation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA · Department of Computer Science University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA

  2. Evaluating Physical Consistency and Plausibility in Generative Scenario Models for Autonomous Driving

    Oct 1, 2026Manasa Mariam Mammen, Zafer Kayatas, Stefan WagnerScenario GenerationAutonomous Driving

    Technical University of Munich, Heilbronn, Germany · Mercedes Benz AG, Sindelfingen, Germany

  3. Towards Reliable Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving

    Oct 1, 2026Manasa Mariam Mammen, Priyanka Mary Mammen, Zafer Kayatas +1Recent Vision-Language ModelsAutonomous Driving

    Technical University of Munich, Heilbronn, Germany · Mercedes Benz AG, Sindelfingen, Germany · University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

  4. Towards Subject Consistency over Dynamic Subject Sets in Video Generation

    Oct 1, 2026Tongcheng Zhang, Jun Zhu, Jianfei ChenVideo GenerationSubjectivity

    Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Tech., Institute for AI, BNRist Center, THBI Lab, Tsinghua-Bosch Joint ML Center, Tsinghua University

  5. A Survey on End-to-End Autonomous Driving Training from the Perspectives of Data, Strategy, and Platform

    Oct 1, 2026Chengkai Xu, Yiming Cui, Jiaqi Liu +7Causality-Aware End-To-End Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving

    College of Transportation, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China

  6. Meta-Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Fast Adaptation of Interactive Policies with Applications to Autonomous Driving

    Sep 30, 2026Huiwen Yan, Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis, Mushuang LiuMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningMean Field Games

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA · Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA

  7. Sparse Planner: A Hybrid Planner for Efficient Sampling via a Conditional Variational Autoencoder

    Sep 30, 2026Wenguang Xu, Giovanni Lucente, Karem Mohamed +1Motion PlanningRobust Trajectory

    Research Institute AImotion Bavaria, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (THI), Ingolstadt, Germany · Research Institute of Transportation Systems, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Braunschweig, Germany · German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany

  8. Comparative study of adapting pre-trained models for driving behavior video captioning

    Sep 30, 2026Sayak Mallick, Philipp Geiger, Augustin KelavaAutonomous DrivingVision-Language Model Adaptation

    University of Tübingen · Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence

  9. ReWAM: Reciprocal World Action Models for Interactive Autonomous Driving

    Sep 30, 2026Benshan Ma, Pei Liu, Ruiguo Zhong +4Efficient World-Action ModelRecent World-Action Models

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Leapmotor · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  10. Efficient Multi-Modal Planning with Reward-Guided Preference Optimization for Autonomous Driving

    Sep 30, 2026Chenglin Chen, Lujia Wang, Xinhu Zheng +2Causality-Aware End-To-End Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving

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

    Sep 29, 2026Kai Yan, Xiangyu Chen, Yulong Cao +9Autonomous Driving

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · NVIDIA

  12. Diffusion-2BC: Hybrid Diffusion and Regression Training for Offline Behavior Cloning in Autonomous Driving

    Sep 29, 2026Bruno Maciel Machado, Eric Aislan AntoneloBehavior CloningDiffusion Policies

    Department of Automation and Systems Engineering, Graduate Program in Automation and Systems Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

  13. TrafficSignBench: Rule-Centric Closed-Loop Evaluation of Traffic-Sign Compliance in Autonomous Driving

    Sep 29, 2026Victoria Smirnova, Viktoriia Zinkovich, Gregorii Bukhtuev +4Traffic Sign RecognitionAutonomous Driving

    Lomonosov Moscow State University · FusionBrain Lab · Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology +3

  14. doPlan: A Variable-Horizon Dataset for Multi-Stage Language-Conditioned Planning in Autonomous Driving

    Sep 29, 2026Parthib Roy, Yash Tandon, Marcus Blennemann +4Naturalistic Driving DataAutonomous Driving

    Machine Intelligence, Interaction, and Imagination (Mi3) Laboratory, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, USA. · Laboratory for Intelligent & Safe Automobiles (LISA), University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

  15. PhysWAM: Physically Consistent World Action Model for Autonomous Driving

    Sep 29, 2026Dhruv Parikh, Fengcheng Yu, Quankai Gao +11Autonomous DrivingWorld

    University of Southern California · Woven by Toyota · Toyota Research Institute +1

  16. GaugeVLM: Structuring Spatial Supervision with Measured Geometric Interventions

    Sep 29, 2026Hongbo Wang, Zihan Lin, Wenkui Yang +5Spatial SupervisionSpatial Intent

    NLPR & MAIS, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences +2

  17. ExceptionDrive: A Planning-Oriented Counterfactual Corner-Case Benchmark for Autonomous Driving

    Sep 29, 2026Ziyi Luo, Zhe Sun, Yehao Lu +5Autonomous DrivingHazard

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China

  18. V2X-WAM: A Cooperative World Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Sep 29, 2026Junwei You, Weizhe Tang, Can Wang +6V2XAutonomous Driving

    ITS Center, Research Institute of Highway Ministry of Transport, Beijing, 100088, China · State Key Lab of Intelligent Transportation System, Research Institute of Highway Ministry of Transport, Beijing, 100088, China · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA +4

  19. Speed in the Blind Spot: An Interpretability Analysis of Dynamic Perception in VLMs for Autonomous Driving

    Sep 29, 2026Katharina Winter, Stefan Englmeier, Fabian B. FlohrAutonomous DrivingBlind Spots

    Munich University of Applied Sciences, Intelligent Vehicles Lab (IVL), 80335 Munich, Germany

  20. RoXDrive: Closed-Loop Reinforcement Learning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving via Action-Faithful Rollouts

    Sep 29, 2026Hongbin Lin, Chaoda Zheng, Yiming Yang +11Autonomous DrivingDrives

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · XPeng Motors · Xidian University

  21. World4Scorer: Outcome-Grounded World Modeling for Autonomous Driving

    Sep 29, 2026Jieyuan Pei, Meiyi Lu, Sining Ang +12World Model PlanningAutonomous Driving

    Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University · HiThink Research · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) +8

  22. RefineDrive: Reliable Failure-Guided Learning for Vision-Language-Action Driving

    Sep 28, 2026Zhe Sun, Ziyi Luo, Yehao Lu +2Autonomous DrivingDrives

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.

  23. When the Score Becomes the Target: Rethinking Metric Validity in Autonomous Driving

    Sep 28, 2026Morui Zhu, Deyuan Qu, Qi Chen +2Autonomous DrivingScoring

    University of North Texas · Toyota InfoTech Labs

  24. CAR-VLA: Complexity-Aware and Risk-Adaptive Reasoning for Autonomous Driving

    Sep 28, 2026Xiaolei Chen, Zhuolin He, Yuxuan Liang +13Autonomous DrivingHazard

    Fudan University · Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd · Fuzhou University +2

  25. AD-E2E-JEPA: A Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture For End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Sep 28, 2026Haoran Zhu, Wancong Zhang, Yann LeCun +1Autonomous DrivingWorld Model Planning

    New York University · AMI Labs

  26. 3D Point Tracking with State Space Models

    Sep 27, 2026Masahiro Ogawa, Qi An, Atsushi Yamashita3D TrackingMonocular Depth Estimation

    Department of Precision Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8563, Japan. · Department of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

  27. VehDyn: A Driving World Model Benchmark for Vehicle Dynamics

    Sep 27, 2026Tianyi Wang, Wangsheng Du, Jiazhou Chen +12Vehicle DynamicsVideo World Models

  28. Retrieve-to-Localize: Bridging Large Language Models and LiDAR Geometry for Spatial Grounding

    Sep 24, 2026Byounggun Park, Giyong Moon, Jusung Kim +1LidarSpatial Grounding

    Department of Automotive Engineering (Automotive-Computer Convergence), Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea. · Department of Automotive Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea.

  29. S2Planner: Multi-Scale Semantic Planner for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Sep 24, 2026Zhaowei Lu, Liguo Zhou, Yujie Guo +2Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Navigation

    Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-time Systems, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany · Computer Science and Technology School, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, China

  30. SARFusion: Scene-Aware Routing Fusion for Robust Camera-LiDAR 3D Object Detection

    Sep 24, 2026Yuting Zhao, Ziyi Zheng, Shuxiao Li3D Object DetectionMulti-Sensor Fusion

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Wuhan College, Wuhan, China

  31. Assessing the Impact of Fleet Size on Crowdsourced Mapping Using a Dissimilarity Measure

    Sep 24, 2026Marie-Ngoïe Badibanga Kalenda, Philippe Bonnifait, Marie-Anne MittetLane-Level Map GenerationTraffic Sign Recognition

    Heudiasyc · Université de Technologie de Compiègne, CNRS, Heudiasyc, Renault, Guyancourt, France · Université de Technologie de Compiègne, CNRS, Heudiasyc, France +1

  32. AnchorReasoning: A Visual Grounding and Causal Reasoning Dataset in Long-Tail Autonomous Driving Scenarios

    Sep 23, 2026Zhipeng Bao, Wenjie Zhao, Tianle Zhu +4Autonomous DrivingHuman Driving

    School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering, University of Georgia · School of Computing, University of Georgia

  33. Leveraging Vision-Based Point Cloud Map Priors for Camera-Based 3D Object Detection and Online Vectorized HD Mapping

    Sep 22, 2026Markus Käppeler, Rohit Mohan, Abhinav Valada3D Object DetectionLane-Level Map Generation

    Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Germany.

  34. ForeDrive: Foresight-Guided End-to-End Autonomous Driving with a Planning-Relevant Latent World Model

    Sep 22, 2026Sinuo Wang, Zichong Gu, Yuhan Huang +10Causality-Aware End-To-End Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Shanghai Zaofu Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. · Tongji University

  35. Relationally Grounded Latent World Models for Autonomous Driving

    Sep 21, 2026Fabian Schmidt, Markus Enzweiler, Abhinav ValadaAutonomous DrivingLatent World Models

    Institute for Intelligent Systems, Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, Germany. · Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Germany.

  36. Lightweight Pedestrian Head-Orientation Recognition Network for Safe Pedestrian-Vehicle Interaction

    Sep 21, 2026Yuanzhe Li, Yidi Huang, Xiaotong Chang +1Pedestrian DetectionPedestrian

    Chair of Automotive Engineering, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, 13355, Germany.

  37. Towards robust multimodal 3D object detection via visual foundation models

    Sep 20, 2026Ziying Song, Lin Liu, Hongyu Pan +43D Object DetectionAutonomous Driving Perception

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China · Horizon Robotics, Beijing 100000, China · University of Macau, Macao 999078, China +1

  38. OPTED: On-Policy Fine-Tuning for End-to-End Driving using a Render-Free Teacher

    Sep 17, 2026Damiano Da Col, Maximilian Igl, Peter Karkus +5Autonomous DrivingReinforcement Learning Post-Training

    KE:SAI · ETH Zürich · NVIDIA Research +2

  39. MILER: Semantic Mid-Level Representation for Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning in Unstructured Autonomous Driving

    Sep 17, 2026Thomas Steinecker, Denis Trescher, Alexander Bienemann +2Sim-To-Real Reinforcement LearningAutonomous Driving

    Chair of Machine Perception for Autonomous Driving, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany

  40. Worst-Case Hidden-Vehicle Trajectory Search in Spatiotemporal Occlusion Regions

    Sep 17, 2026Ruichen Tan, Zengxiang Lei, Satish UkkusuriAutonomous DrivingRobust Trajectory

    Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA

  41. MM-Future: Multi-Mode Joint World-Action Modeling for Autonomous Driving

    Sep 17, 2026Shuai Liu, Hechangle Gong, Hao Jiang +5Autonomous DrivingEfficient World-Action Model

    NIO · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University · Beihang University +1

  42. REARL: A Closed-loop Autonomous Driving Simulation Enhancement Framework with Real Traffic Data and Large Language Models

    Sep 17, 2026Xiaojun Bi, Jun Jiang, Yiwen Sun +6Autonomous DrivingTraffic

    Minzu University of China, Beijing, China · Key Laboratory of Ethnic Language Intelligent Analysis and Security Governance of MOE, Minzu University of China, Beijing, 100081, China · Peking University, Beijing, China +4

  43. Vehicle Trajectory Prediction via Neural Fusion of Multiple EKF-Based Trajectory Candidates

    Sep 17, 2026Seong-Jun Kim, Seung-Hyun KongEgo-Trajectory PredictionExtended Kalman Filter

    CCS Graduate School of Mobility, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

  44. WZPlanner: Safe End-to-End Path Planning for Autonomous Driving in Work Zones

    Sep 16, 2026Nishad Sahu, Changzhong Qian, Guangzhou Cai +3Autonomous DrivingLidar

    Raj · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  45. Open-vocabulary 3D object detection with promptable segmentation

    Sep 16, 2026Ömer Faruk Deniz, Mustafa Taha Koçyiğit3D Object DetectionObject Detection

    Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Boğaziçi University, South Campus, Bebek, 34342, Istanbul, Türkiye

  46. FIVE-VLA: Fast and EffectIVE Autonomous Driving with Recurrent Action Memory

    Sep 16, 2026Kemal Oksuz, Alexandru Buburuzan, Yuhan Yao +1Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsAutonomous Driving

    Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany · Five AI Ltd., United Kingdom

  47. 4D Radar Perception Algorithms for Autonomous Driving: A Review

    Sep 16, 2026Xumin Wu, Jun Zhou, Jilin Mei +24D RadarAutonomous Driving Perception

    Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · Beijing Jingwei Hirain Technologies Co., Inc., Beijing, China

  48. Learning from Distributed Eyes: Leveraging Collaborative Perception for Automated Model Adaptation

    Sep 16, 2026Yanan Ma, Yihang Tao, Zhengru Fang +4Collaborative PerceptionParameter-Efficient Adaptation

    Hong Kong JC Lab of Smart City and the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · School of Data Science, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, China · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  49. Imitation Learning for Autonomous Driving in CARLA

    Sep 15, 2026Jordy KietoAutonomous DrivingImitation Learning

  50. RAF-VLA: Representation Alignment with the Future for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Sep 15, 2026Dogun Kim, Yongjae Lee, Joonhee Lim +4Autonomous DrivingLow-Latency Latent Planning

    Graduate School of Mobility, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea · Robotics Program, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea

  51. NeuroSymbEAD: A Large Scale Neuro-Symbolic Caption Dataset for Omni-Directional Embodied Autonomous Driving

    Sep 15, 2026Muhammad Ahmed Ullah Khan, Mohammed Elamine, Sheikh Talha Uddin +3Autonomous Driving PerceptionAutonomous Driving

    DFKI · RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau · Independent Researcher +1

  52. Geometry vs Structure: Graph-Based Diagnostics for LiDAR Point-Cloud Simulation Fidelity

    Sep 14, 2026Ghazal Farhani, Taufiq RahmanLight Detection And Ranging Point CloudsFidelity

    Automotive and Surface Transportation Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, London, Ontario, Canada.

  53. GRAVA: Grounded Reasoning-to-Action Representation and Learning for Autonomous Driving

    Sep 14, 2026Xiao Liu, Haoyu Li, Jianghao Leng +2Autonomous DrivingAction Prediction

    National Engineering Research Center of Electric Vehicles, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China · Shenzhen Automotive Research Institute, Beijing Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 518118, China · Shenzhen Jiguangzhijie Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen 518118, China +2

  54. READ: Learning Risk-Informed Fields for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Sep 14, 2026Zhiyuan Liu, Yuanxin Tian, Zehong Ke +5Causality-Aware End-To-End Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving

    School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University.

  55. A Multi-Vehicle Dataset with Camera, LiDAR, and Radar Sensors and Scanned 3D Models for Custom Auto-Annotation using RTK-GNSS

    Sep 14, 2026Philipp Berthold, Bianca Forkel, Mirko MaehlischAutonomous DrivingRadar

    Institute for Autonomous Driving of the University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Neubiberg, Germany

  56. Scenario-Independent Criticality Assessment and Prediction for Vulnerable Road Users in Autonomous Driving

    Sep 14, 2026Jörg Gamerdinger, Victor Schwarzenberger, Philipp Schmid +2Automated VehiclesAutonomous Driving

    University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science, Department of Computer Science, Embedded Systems Group

  57. CARLAverse: A Highly Modular, Distributed, and Multimodal Framework for Human-in-the-Loop Simulation

    Sep 11, 2026Patrick Rebling, Philipp Nenninger, Reiner KriestenAutonomous Driving SimulationAutonomous Driving

    Institute of Energy Efficient Mobility Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences

  58. MC-DeTra: Motion-Consistent Joint Object Detection and Socially-Aware Trajectory Forecasting in Bird's-Eye-View Images

    Sep 11, 2026Vladislav Diuzhev, Dmitry YudinTrajectory ForecastingBird'S-Eye View

    Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia · Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Moscow, Russia

  59. CLFTv2: Efficient Camera-LiDAR Fusion for Semantic Segmentation via Hierarchical Feature Pyramids

    Sep 9, 2026Toomas Tahves, Mauro Bellone, Raivo SellLidarTwo-Dimensional Light Detection And Ranging

    Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia · FinEst Centre for Smart Cities, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia · Universitas Mercatorum, Rome, Italy

  60. A Risk-Sensitive and Uncertainty-Aware Decision-Making and Control Framework for Safe and Robust Autonomous Driving

    Sep 9, 2026Zhuoren Li, Ran Yu, Weiqi Zhang +4Autonomous DrivingControl Barrier Functions

    College of Automotive and Energy Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China · Department of Data and Systems Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong