AdaDrive: Self-Adaptive Slow-Fast System for Language-Grounded Autonomous Driving

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Main Authors: Zhang, Ruifei, Xie, Junlin, Zhang, Wei, Chen, Weikai, Tan, Xiao, Wan, Xiang, Li, Guanbin
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author Zhang, Ruifei
Xie, Junlin
Zhang, Wei
Chen, Weikai
Tan, Xiao
Wan, Xiang
Li, Guanbin
author_facet Zhang, Ruifei
Xie, Junlin
Zhang, Wei
Chen, Weikai
Tan, Xiao
Wan, Xiang
Li, Guanbin
contents Effectively integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous driving requires a balance between leveraging high-level reasoning and maintaining real-time efficiency. Existing approaches either activate LLMs too frequently, causing excessive computational overhead, or use fixed schedules, failing to adapt to dynamic driving conditions. To address these challenges, we propose AdaDrive, an adaptively collaborative slow-fast framework that optimally determines when and how LLMs contribute to decision-making. (1) When to activate the LLM: AdaDrive employs a novel adaptive activation loss that dynamically determines LLM invocation based on a comparative learning mechanism, ensuring activation only in complex or critical scenarios. (2) How to integrate LLM assistance: Instead of rigid binary activation, AdaDrive introduces an adaptive fusion strategy that modulates a continuous, scaled LLM influence based on scene complexity and prediction confidence, ensuring seamless collaboration with conventional planners. Through these strategies, AdaDrive provides a flexible, context-aware framework that maximizes decision accuracy without compromising real-time performance. Extensive experiments on language-grounded autonomous driving benchmarks demonstrate that AdaDrive state-of-the-art performance in terms of both driving accuracy and computational efficiency. Code is available at https://github.com/ReaFly/AdaDrive.
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spellingShingle AdaDrive: Self-Adaptive Slow-Fast System for Language-Grounded Autonomous Driving
Zhang, Ruifei
Xie, Junlin
Zhang, Wei
Chen, Weikai
Tan, Xiao
Wan, Xiang
Li, Guanbin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Effectively integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous driving requires a balance between leveraging high-level reasoning and maintaining real-time efficiency. Existing approaches either activate LLMs too frequently, causing excessive computational overhead, or use fixed schedules, failing to adapt to dynamic driving conditions. To address these challenges, we propose AdaDrive, an adaptively collaborative slow-fast framework that optimally determines when and how LLMs contribute to decision-making. (1) When to activate the LLM: AdaDrive employs a novel adaptive activation loss that dynamically determines LLM invocation based on a comparative learning mechanism, ensuring activation only in complex or critical scenarios. (2) How to integrate LLM assistance: Instead of rigid binary activation, AdaDrive introduces an adaptive fusion strategy that modulates a continuous, scaled LLM influence based on scene complexity and prediction confidence, ensuring seamless collaboration with conventional planners. Through these strategies, AdaDrive provides a flexible, context-aware framework that maximizes decision accuracy without compromising real-time performance. Extensive experiments on language-grounded autonomous driving benchmarks demonstrate that AdaDrive state-of-the-art performance in terms of both driving accuracy and computational efficiency. Code is available at https://github.com/ReaFly/AdaDrive.
title AdaDrive: Self-Adaptive Slow-Fast System for Language-Grounded Autonomous Driving
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06253