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:sunglasses: Awesome VLA for Autonomous Driving

Autonomous driving has long relied on modular "Perception-Decision-Action" pipelines, whose hand-crafted interfaces and rule-based components often struggle in complex, dynamic, or long-tailed scenarios. Their cascaded structure also amplifies upstream perception errors, undermining downstream planning and control.

This survey reviews vision-action (VA) models and vision-language-action (VLA) models for autonomous driving. We trace the evolution from early VA approaches to modern VLA frameworks, and organize existing methods into two principal paradigms:

  • End-to-End VLA, which integrates perception, reasoning, and planning within a single model.
  • Dual-System VLA, which separates slow deliberation (via VLMs) from fast, safety-critical execution (via planners).

For more details, kindly refer to our :books: Paper, :globe_with_meridians: Project Page, and :hugs: HuggingFace Leaderboard.

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If you find this work helpful for your research, please kindly consider citing our paper:

@article{survey_vla4ad,
    title   = {Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving: Past, Present, and Future},
    author  = {Tianshuai Hu and Xiaolu Liu and Song Wang and Yiyao Zhu and Ao Liang and Lingdong Kong and Guoyang Zhao and Zeying Gong and Jun Cen and Zhiyu Huang and Xiaoshuai Hao and Linfeng Li and Hang Song and Xiangtai Li and Jun Ma and Shaojie Shen and Jianke Zhu and Dacheng Tao and Ziwei Liu and Junwei Liang},
    journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.16760},
    year    = {2025},
}

@article{survey_3d_4d_world_models,
    title   = {{3D} and {4D} World Modeling: A Survey},
    author  = {Lingdong Kong and Wesley Yang and Jianbiao Mei and Youquan Liu and Ao Liang and Dekai Zhu and Dongyue Lu and Wei Yin and Xiaotao Hu and Mingkai Jia and Junyuan Deng and Kaiwen Zhang and Yang Wu and Tianyi Yan and Shenyuan Gao and Song Wang and Linfeng Li and Liang Pan and Yong Liu and Jianke Zhu and Wei Tsang Ooi and Steven C. H. Hoi and Ziwei Liu},
    journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.07996},
    year    = {2025}
}

Table of Contents

1. Vision-Action Models

:one: Action-Only Models

:timer_clock: In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model Paper Venue Website GitHub
Selective Memory arXiv
Not All History Helps: Velocity-Aware Selective Memory for Long-Horizon End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
MomADv2 arXiv
MomADv2: Reliable Temporal Memory for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
RoG-DAgger arXiv
RoG-DAgger: Rollout-Guided Post-Training for End-to-End Driving arXiv 2026 - -
CL4AD arXiv
Scaling Curriculum Learning For Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
VG-SAF arXiv
Variance-Guided Spatial Attention Fusion for Robust End-to-End Driving under Asymmetric Sensor Degradation arXiv 2026 - -
LBC arXiv
Learning by Cheating CoRL 2020 - GitHub
Latent-DRL arXiv
End-to-End Model-Free Reinforcement Learning for Urban Driving using Implicit Affordances CVPR 2020 - -
NEAT arXiv
NEAT: Neural Attention Fields for End-to-End Autonomous Driving ICCV 2021 - GitHub
Roach arXiv
End-to-End Urban Driving by Imitating a Reinforcement Learning Coach ICCV 2021 Website GitHub
WoR arXiv
Learning to Drive from A World on Rails ICCV 2021 Website GitHub
TCP arXiv
Trajectory-guided Control Prediction for End-to-end Autonomous Driving: A Simple yet Strong Baseline NeurIPS 2022 - GitHub
Urban-Driver arXiv
Urban Driver: Learning to Drive from Real-world Demonstrations Using Policy Gradients CoRL 2022 Website GitHub
LAV arXiv
Learning from All Vehicles CVPR 2022 Website GitHub
TransFuser arXiv
TransFuser: Imitation with Transformer-Based Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Driving TPAMI 2023 - GitHub
GRI arXiv
GRI: General Reinforced Imitation and its Application to Vision-Based Autonomous Driving Robotics 2023 - -
BEVPlanner arXiv
Is Ego Status All You Need for Open-Loop End-to-End Autonomous Driving? CVPR 2024 - GitHub
Raw2Drive arXiv
Raw2Drive: Reinforcement Learning with Aligned World Models for End-to-End Autonomous Driving (in CARLA v2) NeurIPS 2025 - -
RAD arXiv
RAD: Training an End-to-End Driving Policy via Large-Scale 3DGS-based Reinforcement Learning NeurIPS 2025 Website -
TrajDiff arXiv
TrajDiff: End-to-End Autonomous Driving without Perception Annotation arXiv 2025 - GitHub
SimScale arXiv
SimScale: Learning to Drive via Real-World Simulation at Scale arXiv 2025 Website GitHub
- arXiv
Addressing the Waypoint-Action Gap in End-to-End Autonomous Driving via Vehicle Motion Models arXiv 2026 - -
Velocity-Aware Selective Memory arXiv
Not All History Helps: Velocity-Aware Selective Memory for Long-Horizon End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Scaling Curriculum Learning arXiv
Scaling Curriculum Learning For Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
MomADv2 arXiv
MomADv2: Reliable Temporal Memory for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
RoG-DAgger arXiv
RoG-DAgger: Rollout-Guided Post-Training for End-to-End Driving arXiv 2026 - -
DriveZero arXiv
DriveZero: End-to-End Driving Beyond Human Demonstrations arXiv 2026 - -
EMPlan arXiv
Efficient Multi-Modal Planning with Reward-Guided Preference Optimization for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
RADP arXiv
Learning to Explain While Planning: Rule-Aligned Diffusion Planning for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -

:two: Perception-Action Models

:timer_clock: In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model Paper Venue Website GitHub
ST-P3 arXiv
ST-P3: End-to-End Vision-Based Autonomous Driving via Spatial-Temporal Feature Learning ECCV 2022 - GitHub
UniAD arXiv
Planning-Oriented Autonomous Driving CVPR 2023 - GitHub
VAD arXiv
VAD: Vectorized Scene Representation for Efficient Autonomous Driving ICCV 2023 - GitHub
OccNet arXiv
Scene as Occupancy ICCV 2023 - GitHub
GenAD arXiv
GenAD: Generative End-to-End Autonomous Driving ECCV 2024 - GitHub
PARA-Drive CVPR
PARA-Drive: Parallelized Architecture for Real-Time Autonomous Driving CVPR 2024 Website -
Hydra-MDP CVPRW
Hydra-MDP: End-to-End Multimodal Planning with Multi-Target Hydra-Distillation CVPRW 2024 Website GitHub
SparseAD arXiv
SparseAD: Sparse Query-Centric Paradigm for Efficient End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2024 - -
GaussianAD arXiv
GaussianAD: Gaussian-Centric End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2024 - -
DriveTransformer arXiv
DriveTransformer: Unified Transformer for Scalable End-to-End Autonomous Driving ICLR 2025 - GitHub
SparseDrive arXiv
SparseDrive: End-to-End Autonomous Driving via Sparse Scene Representation ICRA 2025 - GitHub
DiffusionDrive arXiv
DiffusionDrive: Truncated Diffusion Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving CVPR 2025 - GitHub
GoalFlow arXiv
GoalFlow: Goal-Driven Flow Matching for Multimodal Trajectories Generation in End-to-End Autonomous Driving CVPR 2025 Website GitHub
GuideFlow arXiv
GuideFlow: Constraint-Guided Flow Matching for Planning in End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - GitHub
ETA arXiv
ETA: Efficiency through Thinking Ahead, A Dual Approach to Self-Driving with Large Models arXiv 2025 - GitHub
Geo arXiv
Spatial Retrieval Augmented Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
DiffusionDriveV2 arXiv
DiffusionDriveV2: Reinforcement Learning-Constrained Truncated Diffusion Modeling in End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - GitHub
NaviHydra arXiv
NaviHydra: Controllable Navigation-Guided End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Hydra Distillation arXiv 2025 - -
Mimir arXiv
Mimir: Hierarchical Goal-Driven Diffusion with Uncertainty Propagation for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - GitHub
FROST-Drive arXiv
FROST-Drive: Scalable and Efficient End-to-End Driving with a Frozen Vision Encoder arXiv 2026 - -
DrivoR arXiv
Driving on Registers arXiv 2026 Website GitHub
SPS arXiv
See Less, Drive Better: Generalizable End-to-End Autonomous Driving via Foundation Models Stochastic Patch Selection arXiv 2026 - -
BevAD arXiv
What Matters for Scalable and Robust Learning in End-to-End Driving Planners? CVPR 2026 Website GitHub
EgoFSD arXiv
EgoFSD: Ego-Centric Fully Sparse Paradigm with Uncertainty Denoising and Iterative Refinement for Efficient End-to-End Self-Driving ICRA 2026 - GitHub
BeyondSight arXiv
BeyondSight: Object Permanence for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
What's arXiv
What's Hidden Matters: Identifying Planning-Critical Occluded Agents using Vision-Language Models arXiv 2026 - -
Plug arXiv
Plug-and-Play Traffic Element Awareness for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Off arXiv
Off the Rails: Hijacking the Scoring Head in Generative End-to-End Driving Planners with Safety-Violating Adversarial Perturbations arXiv 2026 - -
Herding arXiv
Herding End-to-End Autonomous Driving via Neuro-Symbolic Safety Guards arXiv 2026 - -
VG-SAF arXiv
Variance-Guided Spatial Attention Fusion for Robust End-to-End Driving under Asymmetric Sensor Degradation arXiv 2026 - -
ViRA arXiv
Do Better Visual Representations Always Lead to Better End-to-End Autonomous Driving? arXiv 2026 Website GitHub
DriveMamba arXiv
DriveMamba: Task-Centric Scalable State Space Model for Efficient End-to-End Autonomous Driving ICLR 2026 - -
FPD-Drive arXiv
FPD-Drive: Future Policy Distillation for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 Website GitHub
ConDenseDrive arXiv
ConDenseDrive: Knowledge-Dense, Token-Sparse Visual Encoder for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -

:three: Image-Based World Models

:timer_clock: In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model Paper Venue Website GitHub
DriveDreamer arXiv
DriveDreamer: Towards Real-World-Driven World Models for Autonomous Driving ECCV 2024 Website GitHub
GenAD arXiv
GenAD: Generalized Predictive Model for Autonomous Driving CVPR 2024 - GitHub
Drive-WM arXiv
Driving into the Future: Multiview Visual Forecasting and Planning with World Model for Autonomous Driving CVPR 2024 Website GitHub
DrivingWorld arXiv
DrivingWorld: Constructing World Model for Autonomous Driving via Video GPT arXiv 2024 Website GitHub
Imagine-2-Drive arXiv
Imagine-2-Drive: Leveraging High-Fidelity World Models via Multi-Modal Diffusion Policies IROS 2025 Website -
DrivingGPT arXiv
DrivingGPT: Unifying Driving World Modeling and Planning with Multi-Modal Autoregressive Transformers ICCV 2025 Website -
Epona arXiv
Epona: Autoregressive Diffusion World Model for Autonomous Driving ICCV 2025 Website GitHub
VaViM arXiv
VaViM and VaVAM: Autonomous Driving through Video Generative Modeling arXiv 2025 Website GitHub
UniDrive-WM arXiv
UniDrive-WM: Unified Understanding, Planning and Generation World Model For Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 Website -
DwD arXiv
Driving with DINO: Vision Foundation Features as a Unified Bridge for Sim-to-Real Generation in Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
WorldDrive arXiv
Bridging Scene Generation and Planning: Driving with World Model via Unifying Vision and Motion Representation arXiv 2026 - GitHub
OmniDreams arXiv
NVIDIA OmniDreams: Real-Time Generative World Model for Closed-Loop Autonomous Vehicle Simulation arXiv 2026 - -
DriveDreamer-Policy arXiv
DriveDreamer-Policy: A Geometry-Grounded World-Action Model for Unified Generation and Planning NeurIPS 2026 Website GitHub
DriveVA arXiv
DriveVA: Video Action Models are Zero-Shot Drivers ECCV 2026 - GitHub
Xiaomi EV World Model arXiv
Xiaomi Auto World Model: A Joint World Model Integrating Reconstruction and Generation for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
HERMES++ arXiv
HERMES++: Toward a Unified Driving World Model for 3D Scene Understanding and Generation arXiv 2026 - -
LMGenDrive arXiv
LMGenDrive: Bridging Multimodal Understanding and Generative World Modeling for End-to-End Driving arXiv 2026 - -
X-World arXiv
X-World: Controllable Ego-Centric Multi-Camera World Models for Scalable End-to-End Driving arXiv 2026 - -
How arXiv
How Can Driving World Models Do Counterfactual Prediction? arXiv 2026 - -
Orbis arXiv
Orbis 2: A Hierarchical World Model for Driving arXiv 2026 - -
M$^\text{4}$World: arXiv
M$^\text{4}$World: A Multi-view Multimodal Driving World Model for Interactive Object Manipulation and Minute-long Streaming arXiv 2026 - -
Is arXiv
Is Energy Guidance All You Need? Training-Free Norm Injection for Driving World Models arXiv 2026 - -
GeoRoute arXiv
GeoRoute: Geometry-Aware Hybrid Inference for Traffic Future-Frame Prediction arXiv 2026 - -
Cam2Sim arXiv
Cam2Sim: Neural Scenario Reconstruction for Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving Simulation arXiv 2026 - -
RealWeather arXiv
RealWeather: Realistic and Scene-Faithful Weather Translation with Driving World Models arXiv 2026 - -
SUV arXiv
SUV: Future Scene Understanding as Video Generation for End-to-End Driving arXiv 2026 - -
ZYT-World arXiv
ZYT-World: A Real-Time Controllable World Model for Closed-Loop Autonomous-Driving Simulation arXiv 2026 - -
RoXDrive arXiv
RoXDrive: Closed-Loop Reinforcement Learning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving via Action-Faithful Rollouts arXiv 2026 - -
PhysWAM arXiv
PhysWAM: Physically Consistent World Action Model for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
SV-WAM arXiv
SV-WAM: An Efficient Surround-View World-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -

:four: Occupancy-Based World Models

:timer_clock: In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model Paper Venue Website GitHub
OccWorld arXiv
OccWorld: Learning a 3D Occupancy World Model for Autonomous Driving ECCV 2024 Website GitHub
NeMo ECCV
Neural Volumetric World Models for Autonomous Driving ECCV 2024 - -
OccVAR OpenReview
OCCVAR: Scalable 4D Occupancy Prediction via Next-Scale Prediction OpenReview 2024 - -
RenderWorld arXiv
RenderWorld: World Model with Self-Supervised 3D Label arXiv 2024 - -
DFIT-OccWorld arXiv
An Efficient Occupancy World Model via Decoupled Dynamic Flow and Image-assisted Training arXiv 2024 - -
Drive-OccWorld arXiv
Driving in the Occupancy World: Vision-Centric 4D Occupancy Forecasting and Planning via World Models for Autonomous Driving AAAI 2025 Website GitHub
T³Former arXiv
Temporal Triplane Transformers as Occupancy World Models arXiv 2025 - -
OmniNWM arXiv
OmniNWM: Omniscient Driving Navigation World Models arXiv 2025 - GitHub
AD-R1 arXiv
AD-R1: Closed-Loop Reinforcement Learning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Impartial World Models arXiv 2025 - -
SparseOccVLA arXiv
SparseOccVLA: Bridging Occupancy and Vision-Language Models via Sparse Queries for Unified 4D Scene Understanding and Planning arXiv 2026 - GitHub
GEM arXiv
GEM: Gaussian Evolution Model for Occupancy Forecasting and Motion Planning arXiv 2026 - -
OWMDrive arXiv
OWMDrive: Causality-Aware End-to-End Autonomous Driving via 4D Occupancy World Model arXiv 2026 - -
GaussianDWM++ arXiv
GaussianDWM++: Language-Grounded 3D Gaussian Driving World Model for Unified Scene Understanding, Editing, and Multi-Modal Generation arXiv 2026 - -
V2X-WAM arXiv
V2X-WAM: A Cooperative World Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
InfraWorld arXiv
InfraWorld: Motion-Aware World Modeling for Roadside 4D Occupancy Forecasting arXiv 2026 - Release pending
OccWAM arXiv
OccWAM: Occupancy World-Action Models with Joint Scene-to-Ego Flow Matching arXiv 2026 - -

:five: Latent-Based World Models

:timer_clock: In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model Paper Venue Website GitHub
DA-WAM arXiv
DA-WAM: Decision-Aligned Future Latents for Driving World Models arXiv 2026 - -
WA-JEPA arXiv
WA-JEPA: Rethinking the Video JEPA Paradigm for World-Action Modeling in Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
GeoWAM arXiv
GeoWAM: Visual Geometry World Action Models for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
RISE arXiv
RISE: Adaptive Imagination for World Action Models arXiv 2026 - -
Covariate-Shift arXiv
Mitigating Covariate Shift in Imitation Learning for Autonomous Vehicles Using Latent Space Generative World Models arXiv 2024 - -
World4Drive arXiv
World4Drive: End-to-End Autonomous Driving via Intention-aware Physical Latent World Model ICCV 2025 - -
WoTE arXiv
End-to-End Driving with Online Trajectory Evaluation via BEV World Model ICCV 2025 - GitHub
LAW arXiv
Enhancing End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Latent World Model ICLR 2025 - GitHub
SSR arXiv
Navigation-Guided Sparse Scene Representation for End-to-End Autonomous Driving ICLR 2025 - GitHub
Echo-Planning arXiv
Echo Planning for Autonomous Driving: From Current Observations to Future Trajectories and Back arXiv 2025 - -
SeerDrive arXiv
Future-Aware End-to-End Driving: Bidirectional Modeling of Trajectory Planning and Scene Evolution NeurIPS 2025 - GitHub
Drive-JEPA arXiv
Drive-JEPA: Video JEPA Meets Multimodal Trajectory Distillation for End-to-End Driving arXiv 2026 - GitHub
GraphWorld arXiv
GraphWorld: Long-Horizon Planning with World Models for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Unified Driving Tokens arXiv
Unified Driving Tokens: Representation- and Geometry-Guided Discrete Tokenizer for Driving World Models and Planning arXiv 2026 - -
EponaV2 arXiv
EponaV2: Driving World Model with Comprehensive Future Reasoning arXiv 2026 - -
IDOL arXiv
IDOL: Inverse-Dynamics-Guided Future Prediction for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
ExploreVLA arXiv
ExploreVLA: Dense World Modeling and Exploration for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Kinematics-Aware LWM arXiv
Kinematics-Aware Latent World Models for Data-Efficient Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
SparseWorld arXiv
SparseWorld: Enhancing End-to-End Autonomous Driving via World Models with Sparse Scene Representation arXiv 2026 - -
LWM Survey arXiv
Latent World Models for Automated Driving: A Unified Taxonomy, Evaluation Framework, and Open Challenges arXiv 2026 - -
World Models arXiv
World Models: A Comprehensive Survey of Architectures, Methodologies, Reasoning Paradigms, and Applications arXiv 2026 - -
DynVLA arXiv
DynVLA: Learning World Dynamics for Action Reasoning in Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
DriveWorld-VLA arXiv
DriveWorld-VLA: Unified Latent-Space World Modeling with Vision-Language-Action for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
CRISP arXiv
CRISP: A Spatiotemporal Camera-Radar Backbone for Driving via Forecasting-Based World-Model Pretraining arXiv 2026 - -
Geographic arXiv
Geographic Diversity Beats Data Volume for Cross-Domain Generalization in Zero-Label JEPA Driving World Models arXiv 2026 - -
Auto arXiv
Auto-JEPA: A Latent World Model of Continuous Intent for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
BrainWAM arXiv
BrainWAM: Action-Space Coordination of Semantic Priors and Predictive Dynamics for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
X-Mind arXiv
X-Mind: Efficient Visual Chain-of-Thought via Predictive World Model for End-to-End Driving arXiv 2026 - -
WCog arXiv
WCog-VLA: A Dual-Level World-Cognitive Vision-Language-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
HyWorldVLA arXiv
HyWorldVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model with Hybrid World Modeling for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
LWDrive arXiv
LWDrive: Layer-Wise World-Model-Guided Vision-Language Model Planning for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
DriveCache arXiv
DriveCache: Action-Aware Caching for Driving World Model Inference arXiv 2026 - -
DA-WAM arXiv
DA-WAM: Decision-Aligned Future Latents for Driving World Models arXiv 2026 - -
RISE arXiv
RISE: Adaptive Imagination for World Action Models arXiv 2026 - -
WA-JEPA arXiv
WA-JEPA: Rethinking the Video JEPA Paradigm for World-Action Modeling in Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - GitHub
GeoWAM arXiv
GeoWAM: Visual Geometry World Action Models for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Drive-HWM arXiv
Drive-HWM: Hierarchical World Models for Dynamic-Latent Guided Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
MM-Future arXiv
MM-Future: Multi-Mode Joint World-Action Modeling for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
D-JEPA arXiv
D-JEPA: A Decision-Aligned Latent World Model arXiv 2026 - -
ForeDrive arXiv
ForeDrive: Foresight-Guided End-to-End Autonomous Driving with a Planning-Relevant Latent World Model arXiv 2026 - -
WALT arXiv
WALT: Learning World-Model-Aligned Latent Trajectories for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
MomWorld arXiv
MomWorld: Momentum-Aware Latent World Model for Long-Horizon Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
AD-E2E-JEPA arXiv
AD-E2E-JEPA: A Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture For End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - GitHub
World4Scorer arXiv
World4Scorer: Outcome-Grounded World Modeling for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 Website GitHub
ReWAM arXiv
ReWAM: Reciprocal World Action Models for Interactive Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - GitHub
VGGTWorld-VLA arXiv
VGGTWorld-VLA: Intent-Conditioned 3D World Evolution for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
PlanWAM arXiv
PlanWAM: Planning-Shaped Future Representations for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 Website GitHub
ManeuverFlow arXiv
ManeuverFlow: Maneuver Hypothesis Generation with Future Evidence for Trajectory Evaluation and Refinement in End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - GitHub
MORE arXiv
MORE: Learning Motion-Oriented Registers for Driving World Models and Planning arXiv 2026 - GitHub
Release pending

2. Vision-Language-Action Models

:one: Textual Action Generator

:timer_clock: In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model Paper Venue Website GitHub
GAPL arXiv
GAPL: Grounded Action-effect Policy Learning for LLM-Based Trajectory Planning arXiv 2026 - -
MAO-LLM arXiv
Multi-Agent Orchestration with the Common-Sense Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
DriveMLM arXiv
DriveMLM: Aligning Multi-Modal Large Language Models with Behavioral Planning States for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2023 - GitHub
RAG-Driver arXiv
RAG-Driver: Generalisable Driving Explanations with Retrieval-Augmented In-Context Learning in Multi-Modal Large Language Model RSS 2024 Website GitHub
RDA-Driver arXiv
Making Large Language Models Better Planners with Reasoning-Decision Alignment ECCV 2024 - -
DriveLM arXiv
DriveLM: Driving with Graph Visual Question Answering ECCV 2024 Website GitHub
DriveGPT4 arXiv
DriveGPT4: Interpretable End-to-end Autonomous Driving via Large Language Model RA-L 2024 Website -
DriVLMe arXiv
DriVLMe: Enhancing LLM-based Autonomous Driving Agents with Embodied and Social Experience IROS 2024 Website GitHub
LLaDA arXiv
Driving Everywhere with Large Language Model Policy Adaptation CVPR 2024 Website GitHub
VLAAD WACVW
VLAAD: Vision and Language Assistant for Autonomous Driving WACVW 2024 - GitHub
OccLLaMA arXiv
OccLLaMA: A Unified Occupancy-Language-Action World Model for Understanding and Generation Tasks in Autonomous Driving arXiv 2024 Website -
Doe-1 arXiv
Doe-1: Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving with Large World Model arXiv 2024 Website GitHub
LINGO-2 arXiv
LINGO-2: Driving with Natural Language - Website -
SafeAuto arXiv
SafeAuto: Knowledge-Enhanced Safe Autonomous Driving with Multimodal Foundation Models ICML 2025 - GitHub
OpenEMMA arXiv
OpenEMMA: Open-Source Multimodal Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving WACV 2025 - GitHub
ReasonPlan arXiv
ReasonPlan: Unified Scene Prediction and Decision Reasoning for Closed-loop Autonomous Driving CoRL 2025 - GitHub
WKER arXiv
World Knowledge-Enhanced Reasoning Using Instruction-Guided Interactor in Autonomous Driving AAAI 2025 - -
OmniDrive arXiv
OmniDrive: A Holistic LLM-Agent Framework for Autonomous Driving with 3D Perception, Reasoning and Planning CVPR 2025 - GitHub
S4-Driver arXiv
S4-Driver: Scalable Self-Supervised Driving Multimodal Large Language Model with Spatio-Temporal Visual Representation CVPR 2025 Website -
Occ-LLM arXiv
Occ-LLM: Enhancing Autonomous Driving with Occupancy-BasedLarge Language Models ICRA 2025 - -
DriveBench arXiv
Are VLMs Ready for Autonomous Driving? An Empirical Study from the Reliability, Data, and Metric Perspectives ICCV 2025 Website GitHub
FutureSightDrive arXiv
FutureSightDrive: Thinking Visually with Spatio-Temporal CoT for Autonomous Driving NeurIPS 2025 Website GitHub
ImpromptuVLA arXiv
Impromptu VLA: Open Weights and Open Data for Driving Vision-Language-Action Models NeurIPS 2025 Website GitHub
Sce2DriveX arXiv
Sce2DriveX: A Generalized MLLM Framework for Scene-to-Drive Learning RA-L 2025 - -
EMMA arXiv
EMMA: End-to-End Multimodal Model for Autonomous Driving TMLR 2025 Website -
DriveAgent-R1 arXiv
DriveAgent-R1: Advancing VLM-Based Autonomous Driving with Hybrid Thinking and Active Perception arXiv 2025 - -
Drive-R1 arXiv
Drive-R1: Bridging Reasoning and Planning in VLMs for Autonomous Driving with Reinforcement Learning arXiv 2025 - -
FastDriveVLA arXiv
FastDriveVLA: Efficient End-to-End Driving via Plug-and-Play Reconstruction-Based Token Pruning arXiv 2025 - -
WiseAD arXiv
WiseAD: Knowledge Augmented End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Vision-Language Model arXiv 2025 Website GitHub
AutoDrive-R² arXiv
AutoDrive-R²: Incentivizing Reasoning and Self-Reflection Capacity for VLA Model in Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
OmniReason arXiv
OmniReason: A Temporal-Guided Vision-Language-Action Framework for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
OpenREAD arXiv
OpenREAD: Reinforced Open-Ended Reasoning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving with LLM-as-Critic arXiv 2025 - GitHub
dVLM-AD arXiv
dVLM-AD: Enhance Diffusion Vision-Language-Model for Driving via Controllable Reasoning arXiv 2025 - -
PLA arXiv
A Unified Perception-Language-Action Framework for Adaptive Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
AlphaDrive arXiv
AlphaDrive: Unleashing the Power of VLMs in Autonomous Driving via Reinforcement Learning and Reasoning arXiv 2025 - GitHub
CoReVLA arXiv
CoReVLA: A Dual-Stage End-to-End Autonomous Driving Framework for Long-Tail Scenarios via Collect-and-Refine arXiv 2025 Website GitHub
WAM-Diff arXiv
WAM-Diff: A Masked Diffusion VLA Framework with MoE and Online Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - GitHub
VLADriveBench arXiv
VLADriveBench: Evaluating CoT-Action Relationship in VLA for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
BLUE arXiv
BLUE: Toward Better Language Use in Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
DriveMA arXiv
DriveMA: Driving Vision-Language-Action Models with verifiable Meta-Actions CoRL 2026 Website GitHub
C-CoT arXiv
C-CoT: Counterfactual Chain-of-Thought with Vision-Language Models for Safe Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
MAGNIFIED arXiv
MAGNIFIED: RL Fine-tuning of Multimodal Large Language Models for Motion Planning arXiv 2026 - -
DriveReward arXiv
DriveReward: A Comprehensive Dataset and Generative Vision-Language Reward Model for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
nuReasoning arXiv
nuReasoning: A Reasoning-Centric Dataset and Benchmark for Long-Tail Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Decision-Making arXiv
Decision-Making with Lightweight Confidence-Aware Language Model for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Is arXiv
Is VLA Reasoning Faithful? Probing Safety of Chain-of-Causation in Autonomous Driving Models arXiv 2026 - -
ReasonBreak arXiv
ReasonBreak: Probing Vulnerabilities in Reasoning-Enabled Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Intend, arXiv
Intend, Reflect, Refine: An Adaptive Multimodal Reflection Framework for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Judge, Then Drive arXiv
Judge, Then Drive: A Critic-Centric Vision Language Action Framework for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
EvoDrive arXiv
EvoDrive: Pareto Evolution for Safety-Critical Autonomous Driving via Self-Improving LLM Agents arXiv 2026 - -
AutoDrive-P3 arXiv
AutoDrive-P3: Unified Chain of Perception-Prediction-Planning Thought via Reinforcement Fine-Tuning ICLR 2026 - GitHub
Models
Unifying arXiv
Unifying Language-Action Understanding and Generation for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
MindDriver arXiv
MindDriver: Introducing Progressive Multimodal Reasoning for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
HERMES arXiv
HERMES: A Holistic End-to-End Risk-Aware Multimodal Embodied System with Vision-Language Models for Long-Tail Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Counterfactual VLA arXiv
Counterfactual VLA: Self-Reflective Vision-Language-Action Model with Adaptive Reasoning arXiv 2025 - -
OmniDrive-R1 arXiv
OmniDrive-R1: Reinforcement-driven Interleaved Multi-modal Chain-of-Thought for Trustworthy Vision-Language Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
BeLLA arXiv
BeLLA: End-to-End Birds Eye View Large Language Assistant for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
Reasoning arXiv
Reasoning-aware Speculative Decoding for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models in Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
What arXiv
What Do They See? Interpreting Complex Road Scenarios Through the Eyes of Vision-Language-Action Models for Safe and Trustworthy Autonomous Vehicle Learning arXiv 2026 - -
Teaching arXiv
Teaching Vision-Language-Action Models What to See and Where to Look arXiv 2026 - -
Deferred arXiv
Deferred Exposure of Future Trajectories for Verifiable Reasoning in Autonomous Driving VLMs arXiv 2026 - -
Depth arXiv
Depth-Wise Probing and Pruning of the Planning Token in a Driving Vision-Language-Action Model arXiv 2026 - -
CritiqueDriveVLM arXiv
CritiqueDriveVLM: From Verifier-Guided Reinforcement Learning to Latent Thought Distillation for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
FactorDrive arXiv
FactorDrive: Adaptive Multi-Step Reasoning Driven by Planning-Critical Factors for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
XCoT arXiv
XCoT-VLA: Executable Chain-of-Thought for Vision-Language-Action Driving arXiv 2026 - -
MVPruner arXiv
MVPruner: Dynamic Token Pruning for Accelerating Multi-view Vision-Language Models in Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
FocusDrive arXiv
FocusDrive: Reasoning with Visual Focus for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
GeoCoTDrive arXiv
Explicit Geometric Chain-of-Thought for Vision-Language-Action in Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - GitHub

:two: Numerical Action Generator

:timer_clock: In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model Paper Venue Website GitHub
Geo-VLA arXiv
Geo-VLA: Geometry-Aware Vision-Language-Action Planning via Internalization of Map Semantics arXiv 2026 - -
RedLight-VLA arXiv
RedLight-VLA: Models for traffic-rule grounding and behavioral emphasis in driving policies arXiv 2026 - -
Collab-MMI arXiv
A Collaborative Multi-Modality Interaction for VLA-based End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Drive the Thoughts arXiv
Drive the Thoughts: Runtime Monitoring of VLA Reasoning-Trajectory Consistency arXiv 2026 - -
LMDrive arXiv
LMDrive: Closed-Loop End-to-End Driving with Large Language Models CVPR 2024 Website GitHub
BEVDriver arXiv
BEVDriver: Leveraging BEV Maps in LLMs for Robust Closed-Loop Driving IROS 2025 - -
CoVLA-Agent arXiv
CoVLA: Comprehensive Vision-Language-Action Dataset for Autonomous Driving WACV 2025 Website -
ORION arXiv
ORION: A Holistic End-to-End Autonomous Driving Framework by Vision-Language Instructed Action Generation ICCV 2025 Website GitHub
SimLingo arXiv
SimLingo: Vision-Only Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving with Language-Action Alignment CVPR 2025 Website GitHub
DriveGPT4-V2 CVPR
DriveGPT4-V2: Harnessing Large Language Model Capabilities for Enhanced Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving CVPR 2025 - -
AutoVLA arXiv
AutoVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Adaptive Reasoning and Reinforcement Fine-Tuning NeurIPS 2025 Website GitHub
DriveMoE arXiv
DriveMoE: Mixture-of-Experts for Vision-Language-Action Model in End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 Website GitHub
DSDrive arXiv
DSDrive: Distilling Large Language Model for Lightweight End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Unified Reasoning and Planning arXiv 2025 - -
OccVLA arXiv
OccVLA: Vision-Language-Action Model with Implicit 3D Occupancy Supervision. arXiv 2025 - -
VDRive arXiv
VDRive: Leveraging Reinforced VLA and Diffusion Policy for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
ReflectDrive arXiv
Discrete Diffusion for Reflective Vision-Language-Action Models in Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - GitHub
E3AD arXiv
E3AD: An Emotion-Aware Vision-Language-Action Model for Human-Centric End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
LCDrive arXiv
Latent Chain-of-Thought World Modeling for End-to-End Driving arXiv 2025 - -
Alpamayo-R1 arXiv
Alpamayo-R1: Bridging Reasoning and Action Prediction for Generalizable Autonomous Driving in the Long Tail arXiv 2025 - -
UniUGP arXiv
UniUGP: Unifying understanding, generation, and planing for end-to-end autonomous driving. arXiv 2025 - -
MindDrive arXiv
MindDrive: An All-in-One Framework Bridging World Models and Vision-Language Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
AdaThinkDrive arXiv
AdaThinkDrive: Adaptive Thinking via Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
Percept-WAM arXiv
Percept-WAM: Perception-Enhanced World-Awareness-Action Model for Robust End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
Reasoning-VLA arXiv
Reasoning-VLA: A Fast and General Vision-Language-Action Reasoning Model for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
SpaceDrive arXiv
SpaceDrive: Infusing Spatial Awareness into VLM-Based Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
OpenDriveVLA arXiv
OpenDriveVLA: Towards End-to-end Autonomous Driving with Large Vision Language Action Model AAAI 2026 Website GitHub
WAM-Flow arXiv
WAM-Flow: Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Motion Planning via Discrete Flow Matching for Autonomous Driving CVPR 2026 GitHub
ColaVLA arXiv
ColaVLA: Leveraging Cognitive Latent Reasoning for Hierarchical Parallel Trajectory Planning in Autonomous Driving CVPR 2026 Website GitHub
AutoMoT arXiv
AutoMoT: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model with Asynchronous Mixture-of-Transformers for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
OneDrive arXiv
OneDrive: Unified Multi-Paradigm Driving with Vision-Language-Action Models arXiv 2026 - -
UniDriveVLA arXiv
UniDriveVLA: Unifying Understanding, Perception, and Action Planning for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
VLA-World arXiv
Learning Vision-Language-Action World Models for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Metis arXiv
Metis: A Generalizable and Efficient World-Action Model for Autonomous Driving and Urban Navigation arXiv 2026 - -
MindVLA-U1 arXiv
MindVLA-U1: VLA Beats VA with Unified Streaming Architecture for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
DVGT-2 arXiv
DVGT-2: Vision-Geometry-Action Model for Autonomous Driving at Scale arXiv 2026 - -
VLGA arXiv
VLGA: Vision-Language-Geometry-Action Models for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
VECTOR-Drive arXiv
VECTOR-Drive: Tightly Coupled Vision-Language and Trajectory Expert Routing for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
ChainFlow-VLA arXiv
ChainFlow-VLA: Causal Flow Planning with Vision-Language Models arXiv 2026 - -
LVDrive arXiv
LVDrive: Latent Visual Representation Enhanced Vision-Language-Action Autonomous Driving Model arXiv 2026 - -
StyleVLA arXiv
StyleVLA: Driving Style-Aware Vision Language Action Model for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Masked-VLA-Diffusion arXiv
Efficient and Explainable End-to-End Autonomous Driving via Masked Vision-Language-Action Diffusion arXiv 2026 - -
Uni-World VLA arXiv
Uni-World VLA: Interleaved World Modeling and Planning for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Does arXiv
Does Visual Information Play a Decisive Role in Vision-Language-Action Model Driving Behavior? arXiv 2026 - -
Reasoning arXiv
Reasoning About Traversability: Language-Guided Off-Road 3D Trajectory Planning arXiv 2026 - -
SpanVLA arXiv
SpanVLA: Efficient Action Bridging and Learning from Negative-Recovery Samples for Vision-Language-Action Model arXiv 2026 - -
Sim2Real-AD arXiv
Sim2Real-AD: A Modular Sim-to-Real Framework for Deploying VLM-Guided Reinforcement Learning in Real-World Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Drive My Way arXiv
Drive My Way: Preference Alignment of Vision-Language-Action Model for Personalized Driving arXiv 2026 - -
DriveVLM-RL arXiv
DriveVLM-RL: Neuroscience-Inspired Reinforcement Learning with Vision-Language Models for Safe and Deployable Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Learning from Mistakes arXiv
Learning from Mistakes: Post-Training for Driving VLA with Takeover Data arXiv 2026 - -
SAMoE-VLA arXiv
SAMoE-VLA: A Scene Adaptive Mixture-of-Experts Vision-Language-Action Model for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
LaST-VLA arXiv
LaST-VLA: Thinking in Latent Spatio-Temporal Space for Vision-Language-Action in Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
PixelPilot arXiv
PixelPilot: Scalable Vision-Language-Action Models for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
S-squared arXiv
S-squared-VLA: Decoupling Semantic and Spatial Streams in Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
WAM arXiv
WAM-Diff2: Hierarchical AR-to-Diffusion Distillation for Highly Efficient Autonomous Driving VLA arXiv 2026 - -
AnchorVLA arXiv
AnchorVLA: Bridging Discrete Decisions and Continuous Trajectories for Vision-Language-Action Planning arXiv 2026 - -
CLEAR arXiv
CLEAR: Closed-Loop Reinforcement Learning at Scale for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Post arXiv
Post-Training in End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Latent arXiv
Latent-Centroid Steering: Single-Pass Classifier-Free Guidance for Command-Aligned Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Inference arXiv
Inference-Time Attention Steering for Vision-Language-Action Driving Models arXiv 2026 - -
Geo-VLA arXiv
Geo-VLA: Geometry-Aware Vision-Language-Action Planning via Internalization of Map Semantics arXiv 2026 - -
RedLight-VLA arXiv
RedLight-VLA: Models for traffic-rule grounding and behavioral emphasis in driving policies arXiv 2026 - -
Collaborative Multi-Modality arXiv
A Collaborative Multi-Modality Interaction for VLA-based End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Qwen-Drive-1.0 arXiv
Qwen-Drive-1.0: An Initial Step towards a Vision-Language Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 Website GitHub
LaPla arXiv
Continuous Actions from Discrete Minds: Latent-Aligned Planning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
GRAVA arXiv
GRAVA: Grounded Reasoning-to-Action Representation and Learning for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - GitHub
RAF-VLA arXiv
RAF-VLA: Representation Alignment with the Future for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
FIVE-VLA arXiv
FIVE-VLA: Fast and EffectIVE Autonomous Driving with Recurrent Action Memory arXiv 2026 - -
Run-then-Walk arXiv
Sometimes You Gotta Run Before You Can Walk: Run-then-Walk Scheduling Strategy for VLM Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - GitHub
Models
CAR-VLA arXiv
CAR-VLA: Complexity-Aware and Risk-Adaptive Reasoning for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - GitHub
RefineDrive arXiv
RefineDrive: Reliable Failure-Guided Learning for Vision-Language-Action Driving arXiv 2026 - -
AD-Memo arXiv
Vision-Language-Action Autonomous Driving Agent with Language-based Memory arXiv 2026 - -
AUGUstus arXiv
AUGUstus: Autonomous Driving VLA Model with Unified Generation and Understanding arXiv 2026 Website GitHub
Models
YOUDrive arXiv
YOUDrive: Driving Style as a Composable Direction for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
TacitVLA arXiv
TacitVLA: Reasoning Vision-Language-Action Models Without Reasoning Latency arXiv 2026 Website -
DriveWLA arXiv
DriveWLA: Unifying Future Dynamics and Scene Semantics through World-Language-Action Modeling for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Reflect-VLA arXiv
Reflect-VLA: Internalizing Reflective Guidance via Dual-Path On-Policy Self-Distillation for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - GitHub
AffordDrive3D arXiv
AffordDrive3D: Affordance-Aware World-Action Modeling with Spatial Understanding arXiv 2026 Website -

:three: Explicit Action Guidance

:timer_clock: In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model Paper Venue Website GitHub
DriveVLM arXiv
DriveVLM: The Convergence of Autonomous Driving and Large Vision-Language Models CoRL 2024 Website -
LeapAD arXiv
Continuously Learning, Adapting, and Improving: A Dual-Process Approach to Autonomous Driving NeurIPS 2024 Website GitHub
FasionAD arXiv
FASIONAD: Fast and Slow Fusion Thinking Systems for Human-Like Autonomous Driving with Adaptive Feedback arXiv 2024 - -
Senna arXiv
Senna: Bridging Large Vision-Language Models and End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2024 - GitHub
DualAD arXiv
DualAD: Dual-Layer Planning for Reasoning in Autonomous Driving IROS 2025 Website GitHub
DME-Driver arXiv
DME-Driver: Integrating Human Decision Logic and 3D Scene Perception in Autonomous Driving AAAI 2025 - -
SOLVE arXiv
SOLVE: Synergy of Language-Vision and End-to-End Networks for Autonomous Driving CVPR 2025 - -
ReAL-AD arXiv
ReAL-AD: Towards Human-Like Reasoning in End-to-End Autonomous Driving ICCV 2025 Website -
LeapVAD arXiv
LeapVAD: A Leap in Autonomous Driving via Cognitive Perception and Dual-Process Thinking TNNLS 2025 - -
DiffVLA arXiv
DiffVLA: Vision-Language Guided Diffusion Planning for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
FasionAD++ arXiv
FASIONAD++: Integrating High-Level Instruction and Information Bottleneck in Fast-Slow fusion Systems for Enhanced Safety in Autonomous Driving with Adaptive Feedback arXiv 2025 - -
HiST-VLA arXiv
HiST-VLA: A Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Vision-Language-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Senna-2 arXiv
Senna-2: Aligning VLM and End-to-End Driving Policy for Consistent Decision Making and Planning arXiv 2026 - -
From arXiv
From Representational Complementarity to Dual Systems: Synergizing VLM and Vision-Only Backbones for End-to-End Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Fast-dDrive arXiv
Fast-dDrive: Efficient Block-Diffusion VLM for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
DiffVLA++ arXiv
DiffVLA++: Bridging Cognitive Reasoning and End-to-End Driving through Metric-Guided Alignment arXiv 2025 - -
RT-VLA arXiv
RT-VLA: Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Models via Knowledge Distillation arXiv 2026 - -
Slow arXiv
Slow Brain, Fast Planner: Latency-Resilient VLM-Augmented Urban Navigation arXiv 2026 - -
SimpleVSF arXiv
SimpleVSF: VLM-Scoring Fusion for Trajectory Prediction of End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
CoWorld-VLA arXiv
CoWorld-VLA: Thinking in a Multi-Expert World Model for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
OneVL arXiv
Xiaomi OneVL: One-Step Latent Reasoning and Planning with Vision-Language Explanation arXiv 2026 - -
WorldVLM arXiv
WorldVLM: Combining World Model Forecasting and Vision-Language Reasoning arXiv 2026 - -
NaviDriveVLM arXiv
NaviDriveVLM: Decoupling High-Level Reasoning and Motion Planning for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
PRAM-R arXiv
PRAM-R: A Perception-Reasoning-Action-Memory Framework with LLM-Guided Modality Routing for Adaptive Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
CorrectAD arXiv
CorrectAD: A Self-Correcting Agentic System to Improve End-to-end Planning in Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
MTRDrive arXiv
MTRDrive: Memory-Tool Synergistic Reasoning for Robust Autonomous Driving in Corner Cases arXiv 2025 - -
Think arXiv
Think at 5 Hz, Act at 20 Hz: Asynchronous Fast-Slow Vision-Language-Action Inference for Closed-Loop Driving arXiv 2026 - -
DriveVLA arXiv
DriveVLA-M0: Failure-Aware Memory Augmentation for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
FIRE arXiv
FIRE-VLA: Failure-Informed Self-Evolution for Vision-Language-Action Models in Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
FlashDrive arXiv
FlashDrive: Flash Vision-Language-Action Inference for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
GAPL arXiv
GAPL: Grounded Action-effect Policy Learning for LLM-Based Trajectory Planning arXiv 2026 - -
Multi-Agent LLM Orchestration arXiv
Multi-Agent Orchestration with the Common-Sense Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
LADA arXiv
Less Language, More Latents: Annotation-Efficient VLAs for Driving arXiv 2026 - -
RCVLA arXiv
RCVLA: 4D Radar-Grounded Semantic Reasoning and Trajectory Arbitration for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
AutoAgent0 arXiv
AutoAgent0: An Agentic Runtime for Safe Closed-Loop Driving arXiv 2026 Website GitHub
SIGMA arXiv
Not All Uncertainty Matters: Simulation-in-the-Loop Fast-Slow Reasoning for Decision-Critical Autonomous Driving System arXiv 2026 - -

:four: Implicit Representations Transfer

:timer_clock: In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model Paper Venue Website GitHub
VLP arXiv
VLP: Vision Language Planning for Autonomous Driving CVPR 2024 - -
VLM-AD arXiv
VLM-AD: End-to-End Autonomous Driving through Vision-Language Model Supervision CoRL 2025 - -
DiMA arXiv
Distilling Multi-modal Large Language Models for Autonomous Driving CVPR 2025 - -
DINO-Foresight arXiv
DINO-Foresight: Looking into the Future with DINO NeurIPS 2025 Website GitHub
ALN-P3 arXiv
ALN-P3: Unified Language Alignment for Perception, Prediction, and Planning in Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
VERDI arXiv
VERDI: VLM-Embedded Reasoning for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
VLM-E2E arXiv
VLM-E2E: Enhancing End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Multimodal Driver Attention Fusion arXiv 2025 - -
ReCogDrive arXiv
ReCogDrive: A Reinforced Cognitive Framework for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 Website GitHub
InsightDrive arXiv
InsightDrive: Insight Scene Representation for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - GitHub
NetRoller arXiv
NetRoller: Interfacing General and Specialized Models for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - GitHub
ViLaD arXiv
ViLaD: A Large Vision Language Diffusion Framework for End-to-End Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
OmniScene arXiv
OmniScene: Attention-Augmented Multimodal 4D Scene Understanding for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
LMAD arXiv
LMAD: Integrated End-to-End VisionLanguage Model for Explainable Autonomous Driving arXiv 2025 - -
BEVLM arXiv
BEVLM: Distilling Semantic Knowledge from LLMs into Bird's-Eye View Representations ECCV 2026 Website -
Outcome arXiv
Outcome-Guided Distillation: A Teacher-Student Framework to Advance VLM Reasoning in Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
Relational Latent World Models arXiv
Relationally Grounded Latent World Models for Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -

3. Datasets & Benchmarks

:timer_clock: In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

:one: Vision-Action Datasets

Dataset Paper Venue Website GitHub
SkyDrive arXiv
SkyDrive: Learning to Drive in a New City from Aerial Traffic Monitoring arXiv 2026 - -
BDD100K arXiv
BDD100K: A Diverse Driving Dataset for Heterogeneous Multitask Learning CVPR 2020 Website GitHub
nuScenes arXiv
nuScenes: A Multimodal Dataset for Autonomous Driving CVPR 2020 Website -
Waymo arXiv
Scalability in Perception for Autonomous Driving: Waymo Open Dataset CVPR 2020 Website GitHub
nuPlan arXiv
nuPlan: A Closed-Loop ML-Based Planning Benchmark for Autonomous Vehicles arXiv 2021 Website GitHub
Argoverse 2 arXiv
Argoverse 2: Next Generation Datasets for Self-Driving Perception and Forecasting NeurIPS 2021 Website GitHub
Bench2Drive arXiv
Bench2Drive: Towards Multi-Ability Benchmarking of Closed-Loop End-to-End Autonomous Driving NeurIPS 2024 - GitHub
RoboBEV arXiv
Benchmarking and Improving Bird's Eye View Perception Robustness in Autonomous Driving TPAMI 2025 - GitHub
WOD-E2E arXiv
WOD-E2E: Waymo Open Dataset for End-to-End Driving in Challenging Long-Tail Scenarios arXiv 2025 Website GitHub
navdream arXiv
The Constant Eye: Benchmarking and Bridging Appearance Robustness in Autonomous Driving arXiv 2026 - -
SIREN-Bench arXiv
SIREN-Bench: Behavior-Driven Generation and Evaluation of Emergency-Vehicle Interactions arXiv 2026 - -
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