ReCogDrive: A Reinforced Cognitive Framework for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

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Autori principali: Li, Yongkang, Xiong, Kaixin, Guo, Xiangyu, Li, Fang, Yan, Sixu, Xu, Gangwei, Zhou, Lijun, Chen, Long, Sun, Haiyang, Wang, Bing, Ma, Kun, Chen, Guang, Ye, Hangjun, Liu, Wenyu, Wang, Xinggang
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author Li, Yongkang
Xiong, Kaixin
Guo, Xiangyu
Li, Fang
Yan, Sixu
Xu, Gangwei
Zhou, Lijun
Chen, Long
Sun, Haiyang
Wang, Bing
Ma, Kun
Chen, Guang
Ye, Hangjun
Liu, Wenyu
Wang, Xinggang
author_facet Li, Yongkang
Xiong, Kaixin
Guo, Xiangyu
Li, Fang
Yan, Sixu
Xu, Gangwei
Zhou, Lijun
Chen, Long
Sun, Haiyang
Wang, Bing
Ma, Kun
Chen, Guang
Ye, Hangjun
Liu, Wenyu
Wang, Xinggang
contents Recent studies have explored leveraging the world knowledge and cognitive capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to address the long-tail problem in end-to-end autonomous driving. However, existing methods typically formulate trajectory planning as a language modeling task, where physical actions are output in the language space, potentially leading to issues such as format-violating outputs, infeasible actions, and slow inference speeds. In this paper, we propose ReCogDrive, a novel Reinforced Cognitive framework for end-to-end autonomous Driving, unifying driving understanding and planning by integrating an autoregressive model with a diffusion planner. First, to instill human driving cognition into the VLM, we introduce a hierarchical data pipeline that mimics the sequential cognitive process of human drivers through three stages: generation, refinement, and quality control. Building on this cognitive foundation, we then address the language-action mismatch by injecting the VLM's learned driving priors into a diffusion planner to efficiently generate continuous and stable trajectories. Furthermore, to enhance driving safety and reduce collisions, we introduce a Diffusion Group Relative Policy Optimization (DiffGRPO) stage, reinforcing the planner for enhanced safety and comfort. Extensive experiments on the NAVSIM and Bench2Drive benchmarks demonstrate that ReCogDrive achieves state-of-the-art performance. Additionally, qualitative results across diverse driving scenarios and DriveBench highlight the model's scene comprehension. All code, model weights, and datasets will be made publicly available to facilitate subsequent research.
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spellingShingle ReCogDrive: A Reinforced Cognitive Framework for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Li, Yongkang
Xiong, Kaixin
Guo, Xiangyu
Li, Fang
Yan, Sixu
Xu, Gangwei
Zhou, Lijun
Chen, Long
Sun, Haiyang
Wang, Bing
Ma, Kun
Chen, Guang
Ye, Hangjun
Liu, Wenyu
Wang, Xinggang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Recent studies have explored leveraging the world knowledge and cognitive capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to address the long-tail problem in end-to-end autonomous driving. However, existing methods typically formulate trajectory planning as a language modeling task, where physical actions are output in the language space, potentially leading to issues such as format-violating outputs, infeasible actions, and slow inference speeds. In this paper, we propose ReCogDrive, a novel Reinforced Cognitive framework for end-to-end autonomous Driving, unifying driving understanding and planning by integrating an autoregressive model with a diffusion planner. First, to instill human driving cognition into the VLM, we introduce a hierarchical data pipeline that mimics the sequential cognitive process of human drivers through three stages: generation, refinement, and quality control. Building on this cognitive foundation, we then address the language-action mismatch by injecting the VLM's learned driving priors into a diffusion planner to efficiently generate continuous and stable trajectories. Furthermore, to enhance driving safety and reduce collisions, we introduce a Diffusion Group Relative Policy Optimization (DiffGRPO) stage, reinforcing the planner for enhanced safety and comfort. Extensive experiments on the NAVSIM and Bench2Drive benchmarks demonstrate that ReCogDrive achieves state-of-the-art performance. Additionally, qualitative results across diverse driving scenarios and DriveBench highlight the model's scene comprehension. All code, model weights, and datasets will be made publicly available to facilitate subsequent research.
title ReCogDrive: A Reinforced Cognitive Framework for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08052