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  1. Deferred Exposure of Future Trajectories for Verifiable Reasoning in Autonomous Driving VLMs

    Aug 3, 2026Zixuan Huang, Yang Zhou, Kaixuan Wang +7VLM ReasoningReinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

    1Beihang University · 2Zhuoyu Technology, Shenzhen, China · 3Zhejiang University +1

  2. PRISM: Privileged Probabilistic Latent Supervision for End-to-End Autonomous Driving Motion Planning

    Aug 2, 2026Volodymyr Havrylov, Faris Janjoš, Andreas Look +2End-to-End Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Planning

    University of Tübingen · Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence · Coburg University +1

  3. Track-Guided Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Vehicle Drifting with Minimum-Lap-Time Planning

    Jul 31, 2026Sheng Zhao, Bolin Zhao, Xiaodong Wu +1RL ControlHierarchical RL

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China · School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore

  4. Outcome-Guided Distillation: A Teacher-Student Framework to Advance VLM Reasoning in Autonomous Driving

    Jul 31, 2026Zeyu Dong, Yimin Zhu, Yu Wu +1VLMs for Autonomous DrivingEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Stony Brook University, USA · Rutgers University, USA · Sunrise Technology Inc., USA

  5. Auto-JEPA: A Latent World Model of Continuous Intent for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Jul 31, 2026Jiwei Yang, Zhengxian Chen, Chaosheng Huang +1End-to-End Autonomous DrivingJoint-Embedding Predictive Architecture

    School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University · 2State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Green Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University

  6. Risk-Aware Motion Planning with Learned Trajectory Primitives and Probabilistic Safety Assessment

    Jul 29, 2026Marc Kaufeld, Dian Zhuang, Johannes BetzCollision AvoidanceConstrained Motion Planning

    Professorship of Autonomous Vehicle Systems, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany; Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) · School of Engineering and Design, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany

  7. Unequal Trips, Unequal Places: Diagnosing and Mitigating Delay Inequity in Autonomous Vehicle Fleet Coordination

    Jul 27, 2026Nicole Hu, Mingtao Zhang, Haoyang LI +2Algorithmic FairnessVehicle Routing

    School of Hotel and Tourism Management The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong SAR, China · Department of Computing The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong SAR, China · School of Hotel and Tourism Management & Computing The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong SAR, China

  8. MOJITO: Modal Joint Learning for Unified End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Jul 26, 2026Zhijing Cheng, Xuancheng Zhang, Donglin Di +4End-to-End Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Planning

    University of Science and Technology of China, China · Li Auto, China · University of New South Wales, Australia

  9. A Real-Time Generalized Nash Equilibrium Framework for Interaction-Aware Autonomous Driving in Mixed Traffic

    Jul 23, 2026Nouhed Naidja, Mohamed-Cherif Rahal, Steve Pechberti +3Game TheoryAutonomous Driving

    L2S · Institut VEDECOM, Versailles, France · Laboratoire des Signaux et Syst`emes (L2S) +1

  10. PerceptDrive: Perception Prior World-Action Modeling with Adaptive Expert Routing for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Jul 22, 2026Yushan Liu, Tianxiong Lv, Bohua Wang +11End-to-End Autonomous DrivingWorld Models for Autonomous Driving

    Tsinghua University · AMap, Alibaba Group

  11. Defer to Plan: Adaptive Multi-Agent Fusion for End-to-End V2X Driving

    Jul 22, 2026Nuoran Li, Zhang Zhang, Yueran Zhao +2End-to-End Autonomous DrivingV2X Communication

    Shenzhen Automotive Research Institute National Engineering Research Center of Electric Vehicles Beijing Institute of Technology Shenzhen, China

  12. Cognitive Dual-Process Planning for Autonomous Driving with Structured Scene Knowledge and Verifiable Reasoning-Action Consistency

    Jul 21, 2026Zhongyao Yang, Haoyu Li, Yu Yan +3VLMs for Autonomous DrivingCoT Reasoning

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, Beijing, China · National Engineering Research Center of Electric Vehicles, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, Beijing, China · School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, Jiangsu, China +1

  13. GeoWorldAD: Geometry World Action Model for Autonomous Driving

    Jul 20, 2026Songyan Zhang, Jinyuan Tian, Hanbing Li +9World Models for Autonomous DrivingMotion Planning

    Nanyang Technological University · Xiaomi EV · Zhejiang University

  14. What Do They See? Interpreting Complex Road Scenarios Through the Eyes of Vision-Language-Action Models for Safe and Trustworthy Autonomous Vehicle Learning

    Jul 18, 2026Kalpana Panda, Wesley Maia, Vinti Agarwal +1Autonomous Driving DatasetsCounterfactual Explanations

    Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India · Machine Intelligence, Interaction, and Imagination (Mi3) Lab, University of California, Merced, United States

  15. Think at 5 Hz, Act at 20 Hz: Asynchronous Fast-Slow Vision-Language-Action Inference for Closed-Loop Driving

    Jul 17, 2026Yun Li, Jiachen Gong, Simon Thompson +7Efficient VLA Model InferenceVision-Language-Action Models

    The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · TIER IV, Inc., Tokyo, Japan · Huawei

  16. Randomized routing strategies of fleets of CAVs may prove market efficient

    Jul 16, 2026Grzegorz Jamróz, Łukasz Gorczyca, Rafał KucharskiIntelligent Transportation SystemsVehicle Routing

    Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

  17. MIND-CAVs: Multi-Intelligence Negotiation and Decision System for CAVs based on Intent-Driven Autonomy

    Jul 16, 2026Mainak Mondal, Yihang Feng, Yangchao Luo +1Multi-Agent CoordinationMulti-Agent Negotiation

    University of Connecticut

  18. DRIFT: Drift and Aggregation for Motion Planning

    Jul 16, 2026Yining Xing, Zhiyuan Liu, Zehong Ke +2Trajectory GenerationEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

    School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Green Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  19. S-squared-VLA: Decoupling Semantic and Spatial Streams in Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving

    Jul 15, 2026Jianguo Yu, Rukang Wang, Duanfeng Chu +3VLMs for Autonomous DrivingVision-Language-Action Models

    School of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China · Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Center, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China · School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

  20. nuTruck: Benchmarking Autonomous Driving Planning for Distributed Electric-drive Trucks

    Jul 15, 2026Jinyu Miao, Pu Zhang, Yifei He +5Autonomous Driving DatasetsAutonomous Driving Benchmarks

    School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · KargoBot.AI Inc., Beijing, China

  21. Unifying Decision-Making and Trajectory-Planning in Unsignalized Intersections Using Time-Varying Potential Fields

    Jul 15, 2026David Costa, Francesco Cerrito, Massimo Canale +1Collision AvoidanceTrajectory Optimization

    Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Politecnico di Torino, 10129, Turin, Italy · Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, 10129, Turin, Italy

  22. Real-Time Rulebook-Aware Nonlinear MPC for Autonomous Driving with Priority-Biased Tiered Slacks

    Jul 13, 2026Hadi Hajieghrary, Benedikt Walter, Chaitanya Shinde +2Nonlinear MPCAutonomous Driving Safety Evaluation

    TORC Robotics LLC, an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG, USA · Reynolds & Moore and MassRobotics, USA

  23. LIDAR-AD: A Decoder-Free Latent-Interaction Dreamer with Action-Residual Chains for Autonomous Driving

    Jul 12, 2026Yongzhi Liu, Yang Xiao, Zhong Cao +5Latent Dynamics ModelingWorld Models for Autonomous Driving

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211189, China · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA · Xheart Technology Co., Ltd., Suzhou, Jiangsu 215100, China

  24. World Models as Adversaries: Multi-Agent Self-Play Fine-Tuning for Robust Motion Planning

    Jul 12, 2026Tong Nie, Yuewen Mei, Junlin He +3Adversarial TrainingSelf-Play RL

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Tongji University · McGill University +1

  25. Large Language Model Enhanced Differentiable Trajectory Planning for IoT-Enabled Autonomous Driving

    Jul 11, 2026Shihao Zhang, Jing Yang, Ziyu Song +7Autonomous DrivingMotion Planning

    State Key Laboratory of Automotive Simulation and Control, Jilin University, Changchun 130000, China · Center of Research for Cyber Security and Network (CSNET), Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg +3

  26. PrismAD: Decoupled Planning via Semantic Mixture-of-Planners for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Jul 11, 2026Kang Ding, Zhigui Lin, Hongsong Wang +5End-to-End Autonomous DrivingMixture of Experts

    School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. · State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Green Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. · School of Cyberspace Security, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China. +3

  27. BeyondSight: Object Permanence for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Jul 10, 2026Sandro Papais, Letian Wang, Mudit Jain +2Autonomous Driving DatasetsEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

    University of Toronto · Automated Driving, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

  28. WCog-VLA: A Dual-Level World-Cognitive Vision-Language-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Jul 9, 2026Xuerun Yan, Zhexi Lian, Nuoheng Zhang +5End-to-End Autonomous DrivingWorld Models

    Tongji University, China · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  29. Shift & Drift: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Generalizable and Robust Autonomous Driving Motion Planning

    Jul 8, 2026Alessandro Canevaro, Hang Yu, Julian Schmidt +5Autonomous Driving BenchmarksDistribution Shift

    Mercedes-Benz AG, Research & Development, Sindelfingen, Germany · University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, ITIV, Karlsruhe, Germany

  30. VLM-CASE: Vision-Language Model Enabled Context-Adaptive Safety Envelopes for Anticipatory Safe Autonomous Driving

    Jul 6, 2026Tianjia Yang, Ke Li, Ruwen Qin +1VLMs for Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Planning

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, United States · Department of Civil Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, United States