Percept-WAM: Perception-Enhanced World-Awareness-Action Model for Robust End-to-End Autonomous Driving

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Hauptverfasser: Han, Jianhua, Tian, Meng, Zhu, Jiangtong, He, Fan, Zhang, Huixin, Guo, Sitong, Zhu, Dechang, Tang, Hao, Xu, Pei, Guo, Yuze, Niu, Minzhe, Zhu, Haojie, Dong, Qichao, Yan, Xuechao, Dong, Siyuan, Hou, Lu, Huang, Qingqiu, Jia, Xiaosong, Xu, Hang
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author Han, Jianhua
Tian, Meng
Zhu, Jiangtong
He, Fan
Zhang, Huixin
Guo, Sitong
Zhu, Dechang
Tang, Hao
Xu, Pei
Guo, Yuze
Niu, Minzhe
Zhu, Haojie
Dong, Qichao
Yan, Xuechao
Dong, Siyuan
Hou, Lu
Huang, Qingqiu
Jia, Xiaosong
Xu, Hang
author_facet Han, Jianhua
Tian, Meng
Zhu, Jiangtong
He, Fan
Zhang, Huixin
Guo, Sitong
Zhu, Dechang
Tang, Hao
Xu, Pei
Guo, Yuze
Niu, Minzhe
Zhu, Haojie
Dong, Qichao
Yan, Xuechao
Dong, Siyuan
Hou, Lu
Huang, Qingqiu
Jia, Xiaosong
Xu, Hang
contents Autonomous driving heavily relies on accurate and robust spatial perception. Many failures arise from inaccuracies and instability, especially in long-tail scenarios and complex interactions. However, current vision-language models are weak at spatial grounding and understanding, and VLA systems built on them therefore show limited perception and localization ability. To address these challenges, we introduce Percept-WAM, a perception-enhanced World-Awareness-Action Model that is the first to implicitly integrate 2D/3D scene understanding abilities within a single vision-language model (VLM). Instead of relying on QA-style spatial reasoning, Percept-WAM unifies 2D/3D perception tasks into World-PV and World-BEV tokens, which encode both spatial coordinates and confidence. We propose a grid-conditioned prediction mechanism for dense object perception, incorporating IoU-aware scoring and parallel autoregressive decoding, improving stability in long-tail, far-range, and small-object scenarios. Additionally, Percept-WAM leverages pretrained VLM parameters to retain general intelligence (e.g., logical reasoning) and can output perception results and trajectory control outputs directly. Experiments show that Percept-WAM matches or surpasses classical detectors and segmenters on downstream perception benchmarks, achieving 51.7/58.9 mAP on COCO 2D detection and nuScenes BEV 3D detection. When integrated with trajectory decoders, it further improves planning performance on nuScenes and NAVSIM, e.g., surpassing DiffusionDrive by 2.1 in PMDS on NAVSIM. Qualitative results further highlight its strong open-vocabulary and long-tail generalization.
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spellingShingle Percept-WAM: Perception-Enhanced World-Awareness-Action Model for Robust End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Han, Jianhua
Tian, Meng
Zhu, Jiangtong
He, Fan
Zhang, Huixin
Guo, Sitong
Zhu, Dechang
Tang, Hao
Xu, Pei
Guo, Yuze
Niu, Minzhe
Zhu, Haojie
Dong, Qichao
Yan, Xuechao
Dong, Siyuan
Hou, Lu
Huang, Qingqiu
Jia, Xiaosong
Xu, Hang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Autonomous driving heavily relies on accurate and robust spatial perception. Many failures arise from inaccuracies and instability, especially in long-tail scenarios and complex interactions. However, current vision-language models are weak at spatial grounding and understanding, and VLA systems built on them therefore show limited perception and localization ability. To address these challenges, we introduce Percept-WAM, a perception-enhanced World-Awareness-Action Model that is the first to implicitly integrate 2D/3D scene understanding abilities within a single vision-language model (VLM). Instead of relying on QA-style spatial reasoning, Percept-WAM unifies 2D/3D perception tasks into World-PV and World-BEV tokens, which encode both spatial coordinates and confidence. We propose a grid-conditioned prediction mechanism for dense object perception, incorporating IoU-aware scoring and parallel autoregressive decoding, improving stability in long-tail, far-range, and small-object scenarios. Additionally, Percept-WAM leverages pretrained VLM parameters to retain general intelligence (e.g., logical reasoning) and can output perception results and trajectory control outputs directly. Experiments show that Percept-WAM matches or surpasses classical detectors and segmenters on downstream perception benchmarks, achieving 51.7/58.9 mAP on COCO 2D detection and nuScenes BEV 3D detection. When integrated with trajectory decoders, it further improves planning performance on nuScenes and NAVSIM, e.g., surpassing DiffusionDrive by 2.1 in PMDS on NAVSIM. Qualitative results further highlight its strong open-vocabulary and long-tail generalization.
title Percept-WAM: Perception-Enhanced World-Awareness-Action Model for Robust End-to-End Autonomous Driving
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19221