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Main Authors: Wang, Mingyi, Wang, Jingke, Ye, Tengju, Chen, Junbo, Yu, Kaicheng
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02754
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author Wang, Mingyi
Wang, Jingke
Ye, Tengju
Chen, Junbo
Yu, Kaicheng
author_facet Wang, Mingyi
Wang, Jingke
Ye, Tengju
Chen, Junbo
Yu, Kaicheng
contents Recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) have not only advanced natural language processing but also inspired their application in domains with structurally similar problems--most notably, autonomous driving motion generation. Both domains involve autoregressive sequence modeling, token-based representations, and context-aware decision making, making the transfer of LLM components a natural and increasingly common practice. However, despite promising early attempts, a systematic understanding of which LLM modules are truly transferable remains lacking. In this paper, we present a comprehensive evaluation of five key LLM modules--tokenizer design, positional embedding, pre-training paradigms, post-training strategies, and test-time computation--within the context of motion generation for autonomous driving. Through extensive experiments on the Waymo Sim Agents benchmark, we demonstrate that, when appropriately adapted, these modules can significantly improve performance for autonomous driving motion generation. In addition, we identify which techniques can be effectively transferred, analyze the potential reasons for the failure of others, and discuss the specific adaptations needed for autonomous driving scenarios. We evaluate our method on the Sim Agents task and achieve competitive results.
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spellingShingle Do LLM Modules Generalize? A Study on Motion Generation for Autonomous Driving
Wang, Mingyi
Wang, Jingke
Ye, Tengju
Chen, Junbo
Yu, Kaicheng
Artificial Intelligence
Recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) have not only advanced natural language processing but also inspired their application in domains with structurally similar problems--most notably, autonomous driving motion generation. Both domains involve autoregressive sequence modeling, token-based representations, and context-aware decision making, making the transfer of LLM components a natural and increasingly common practice. However, despite promising early attempts, a systematic understanding of which LLM modules are truly transferable remains lacking. In this paper, we present a comprehensive evaluation of five key LLM modules--tokenizer design, positional embedding, pre-training paradigms, post-training strategies, and test-time computation--within the context of motion generation for autonomous driving. Through extensive experiments on the Waymo Sim Agents benchmark, we demonstrate that, when appropriately adapted, these modules can significantly improve performance for autonomous driving motion generation. In addition, we identify which techniques can be effectively transferred, analyze the potential reasons for the failure of others, and discuss the specific adaptations needed for autonomous driving scenarios. We evaluate our method on the Sim Agents task and achieve competitive results.
title Do LLM Modules Generalize? A Study on Motion Generation for Autonomous Driving
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02754