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| author | Yang, Lijin Huang, Jianing Huang, Zhongzhan Liu, Shu Yang, Hao |
| author_facet | Yang, Lijin Huang, Jianing Huang, Zhongzhan Liu, Shu Yang, Hao |
| contents | Recent advances in vision language action (VLA) models have shown remarkable potential for autonomous driving by directly mapping multimodal inputs to control signals. However, previous VLA-based methods have not explicitly exploited the critic capability of VLAs to refine driving decisions, even though such capability has been well demonstrated in other LLM-based domains, thereby limiting their performance in complex closed-loop scenarios. In this work, we present a theoretically inspired two-stage framework, CriticVLA, which extends the role of VLAs from acting to judging. CriticVLA first generates a rough trajectory and then refines it through multimodal evaluation and single-step optimization guided by a VLA-based critic, yielding higher-quality driving behaviors. To support this process, we construct a large-scale synthetic dataset of 12.9 million annotated trajectories covering diverse driving scenarios, which enhances the critic's reasoning and refinement abilities. Extensive closed-loop experiments on the Bench2Drive benchmark show that CriticVLA significantly surpasses state-of-the-art baselines, achieving a 73.33% total success rate and delivering about 30% improvement in challenging scenarios. |
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| spellingShingle | Judge, Then Drive: A Critic-Centric Vision Language Action Framework for Autonomous Driving Yang, Lijin Huang, Jianing Huang, Zhongzhan Liu, Shu Yang, Hao Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Recent advances in vision language action (VLA) models have shown remarkable potential for autonomous driving by directly mapping multimodal inputs to control signals. However, previous VLA-based methods have not explicitly exploited the critic capability of VLAs to refine driving decisions, even though such capability has been well demonstrated in other LLM-based domains, thereby limiting their performance in complex closed-loop scenarios. In this work, we present a theoretically inspired two-stage framework, CriticVLA, which extends the role of VLAs from acting to judging. CriticVLA first generates a rough trajectory and then refines it through multimodal evaluation and single-step optimization guided by a VLA-based critic, yielding higher-quality driving behaviors. To support this process, we construct a large-scale synthetic dataset of 12.9 million annotated trajectories covering diverse driving scenarios, which enhances the critic's reasoning and refinement abilities. Extensive closed-loop experiments on the Bench2Drive benchmark show that CriticVLA significantly surpasses state-of-the-art baselines, achieving a 73.33% total success rate and delivering about 30% improvement in challenging scenarios. |
| title | Judge, Then Drive: A Critic-Centric Vision Language Action Framework for Autonomous Driving |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27366 |