Autonomous Driving

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Autonomous driving studies how vehicles can sense their surroundings, anticipate other road users, and choose safe, effective actions in traffic. Systems range from modular stacks that connect camera, LiDAR, and radar perception to prediction and model-predictive control, to end-to-end policies trained with imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or vision-language and world models. Researchers evaluate these methods on datasets such as nuScenes, Waymo, and Argoverse, in simulators such as CARLA and nuPlan, and through physical vehicle tests. A central challenge is turning strong benchmark results into reliable closed-loop behavior across rare events, changing conditions, and real-world deployment constraints.

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  1. BridgeSim: Unveiling the OL-CL Gap in End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Apr 12, 2026Seth Z. Zhao, Luobin Wang, Hongwei Ruan +13End-to-End Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving

    UCLA · UCSD · Qualcomm

  2. SEIDM: A Safe and Efficient Intelligent Driver Model for Autonomous Driving Behavior

    Apr 11, 2026Yuyang Yao, Shaocheng LuoAutonomous DrivingIntelligent Transportation Systems

    Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

  3. Decentralized Opinion-Integrated Decision making at Unsignalized Intersections via Signed Networks

    Apr 10, 2026Bhaskar Varma, Ying Shuai Quan, Karl D. von Ellenrieder +1Multi-Agent CoordinationIntelligent Transportation Systems

    Faculty of Engineering, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy · Mechatronics Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

  4. VAGNet: Vision-based Accident Anticipation with Global Features

    Apr 10, 2026Vipooshan Vipulananthan, Charith D. ChitraranjanTraffic Accident AnticipationAutonomous Driving

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Katubedda 10400, Sri Lanka

  5. LMGenDrive: Bridging Multimodal Understanding and Generative World Modeling for End-to-End Driving

    Apr 9, 2026Hao Shao, Letian Wang, Yang Zhou +5Autonomous DrivingEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

    CUHK MMLab · University of Toronto · UC Berkeley

  6. Fail2Drive: Benchmarking Closed-Loop Driving Generalization

    Apr 9, 2026Simon Gerstenecker, Andreas Geiger, Katrin RenzAutonomous Driving BenchmarksAutonomous Driving

    University of Tübingen Tübingen AI Center

  7. CrashSight: A Phase-Aware, Infrastructure-Centric Video Benchmark for Traffic Crash Scene Understanding and Reasoning

    Apr 9, 2026Rui Gan, Junyi Ma, Pei Li +4Autonomous Driving BenchmarksAutonomous Driving Safety Evaluation

    University of Wisconsin–Madison · University of Wyoming · Columbia University

  8. Open-Ended Instruction Realization with LLM-Enabled Multi-Planner Scheduling in Autonomous Vehicles

    Apr 9, 2026Jiawei Liu, Xun Gong, Fen Fang +6Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Planning

    Jilin University, China · Engineering Research Center of Knowledge-Driven Human-Machine Intelligence, MOE, China · Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore +3

  9. Geo-EVS: Geometry-Conditioned Extrapolative View Synthesis for Autonomous Driving

    Apr 8, 2026Yatong Lan, Rongkui Tang, Lei HeNovel View SynthesisAutonomous Driving

    School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Green Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · School of Science, Minzu University, Beijing, China +1

  10. Adversarial Robustness Analysis of Cloud-Assisted Autonomous Driving Systems

    Apr 6, 2026Maher Al Islam, Amr S. El-WakeelAdversarial Attacks on Object DetectorsAdversarial Robustness

    Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, WV, USA

  11. DriveVA: Video Action Models are Zero-Shot Drivers

    Apr 5, 2026Mengmeng Liu, Diankun Zhang, Jiuming Liu +7Action-Conditioned Video GenerationWorld Models

    University of Twente, The Netherlands · Xiaomi EV, China · University of Cambridge, United Kingdom +1

  12. V2X-QA: A Comprehensive Reasoning Dataset and Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models in Autonomous Driving Across Ego, Infrastructure, and Cooperative Views

    Apr 3, 2026Junwei You, Pei Li, Zhuoyu Jiang +7Autonomous Driving BenchmarksVLMs for Autonomous Driving

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA · Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA · Kuaishou Technology, Beijing, 100085, China +1

  13. Cross-Vehicle 3D Geometric Consistency for Self-Supervised Surround Depth Estimation on Articulated Vehicles

    Apr 3, 2026Weimin Liu, Jiyuan Qiu, Wenjun Wang +1Self-Supervised Monocular Depth EstimationDepth Estimation

    School of vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Remote Sensing and Earth Observation Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark · California PATH, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

  14. Adaptive Learned State Estimation based on KalmanNet

    Apr 2, 2026Arian Mehrfard, Bharanidhar Duraisamy, Stefan Haag +2Robot State EstimationKalman Filtering

    Research and Development, Mercedes-Benz AG, Germany · Institute for Autonomous Driving, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany

  15. LEO: Graph Attention Network based Hybrid Multi Sensor Extended Object Fusion and Tracking for Autonomous Driving Applications

    Apr 2, 2026Mayank Mayank, Bharanidhar Duraisamy, Florian GeissMulti-Object TrackingAutonomous Driving

    Research and Development, Mercedes-Benz AG, Germany

  16. Efficient Equivariant Transformer for Self-Driving Agent Modeling

    Apr 1, 2026Scott Xu, Dian Chen, Kelvin Wong +3Autonomous DrivingEquivariant Neural Networks

    Waabi · University of Toronto

  17. VRUD: A Drone Dataset for Complex Vehicle-VRU Interactions within Mixed Traffic

    Apr 1, 2026Ziyu Wang, Hongrui Kou, Cheng Wang +4Autonomous Driving DatasetsAutonomous Driving

    National Key Laboratory of Automotive Chassis Integration and Bionics, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, China · DRIVEResearch, Changchun, China · School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH1 4AS, U.K. +1

  18. LLM-Generated Fault Scenarios for Evaluating Perception-Driven Lane Following in Autonomous Edge Systems

    Apr 1, 2026Faezeh Pasandideh, Achim RettbergAutonomous Driving Safety EvaluationAutonomous Driving

    Department of Electrical Engineering Hamm-Lippstadt University. of Applied Sciences (HSHL) Lippstadt, Germany

  19. COTTA: Context-Aware Transfer Adaptation for Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving

    Apr 1, 2026Seohyoung Park, Jaeyeol Lim, Seoyoung Ju +3Trajectory PredictionAutonomous Driving

    Ewha Womans University · OUTTA · Seoul National University +2

  20. C-TRAIL: A Commonsense World Framework for Trajectory Planning in Autonomous Driving

    Mar 31, 2026Zhihong Cui, Haoran Tang, Tianyi Li +4Autonomous Driving PlanningAutonomous Driving

    the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway · the Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China · the Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark

  21. Energy-Aware Imitation Learning for Steering Prediction Using Events and Frames

    Mar 30, 2026Hu Cao, Jiong Liu, Xingzhuo Yan +5Autonomous DrivingImitation Learning

    School of Automation, Southeast University, Sipailou 2, Nanjing, 210096, China. · Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-time Systems, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstraße 15, Munich, 85748, Germany. · School of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Cao’an Road, Shanghai, 200070, China.

  22. Dual-Stage LLM Framework for Scenario-Centric Semantic Interpretation in Driving Assistance

    Mar 29, 2026Jean Douglas Carvalho, Hugo Taciro Kenji, Ahmad Mohammad Saber +3LLM AuditingAutonomous Driving Safety Evaluation

  23. Robust Global-Local Behavior Arbitration via Continuous Command Fusion Under LiDAR Errors

    Mar 28, 2026Mohamed Elgouhary, Amr S. El-WakeelAutonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Safety Evaluation

    The Authors are with the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA.

  24. Autonomous overtaking trajectory optimization using reinforcement learning and opponent pose estimation

    Mar 28, 2026Matej Rene Cihlar, Luka Šiktar, Branimir Ćaran +1Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Racing

    University of Zagreb, Zagreb 10000, Croatia, Faculty of mechanical engineering and naval architecture

  25. R-PGA: Robust Physical Adversarial Camouflage Generation via Relightable 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Mar 27, 2026Tianrui Lou, Siyuan Liang, Jiawei Liang +2Physical Adversarial AttacksConsistent Adversarial Attacks

    School of Cyber Science and Technology, Shenzhen Campus, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China · School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 117417, Singapore · School of Intelligent Systems Engineering, Shenzhen Campus, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China

  26. Vega: Learning to Drive with Natural Language Instructions

    Mar 26, 2026Sicheng Zuo, Yuxuan Li, Wenzhao Zheng +3Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Planning

    Tsinghua University · GigaAI

  27. Drive My Way: Preference Alignment of Vision-Language-Action Model for Personalized Driving

    Mar 26, 2026Zehao Wang, Huaide Jiang, Shuaiwu Dong +3Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Planning

    University of California, Riverside · University of Michigan

  28. Can Users Specify Driving Speed? Bench2Drive-Speed: Benchmark and Baselines for Desired-Speed Conditioned Autonomous Driving

    Mar 26, 2026Yuqian Shao, Xiaosong Jia, Langechuan Liu +1Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Benchmarks

    Sch. of Computer Science & Sch. of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Institute of Trustworthy Embodied AI (TEAI), Fudan University · NVIDIA

  29. Goal-Oriented Reactive Simulation for Closed-Loop Trajectory Prediction

    Mar 25, 2026Harsh Yadav, Tobias MeisenTrajectory PredictionAutonomous Driving

    University of Wuppertal, 42119, Germany

  30. Uncertainty-Aware Vision-based Risk Object Identification via Conformal Risk Tube Prediction

    Mar 25, 2026Kai-Yu Fu, Yi-Ting ChenAutonomous Driving PerceptionAutonomous Driving

    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University