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| author | Huang, Minqing Xiang, Yujiao Liang, Zihan Huang, Jiajie Wang, Jingqi Xu, Zhi Tan, Feiyang Zhou, Hangning Yang, Mu Che, Gong |
| author_facet | Huang, Minqing Xiang, Yujiao Liang, Zihan Huang, Jiajie Wang, Jingqi Xu, Zhi Tan, Feiyang Zhou, Hangning Yang, Mu Che, Gong |
| contents | Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving. However, existing reasoning mechanisms still struggle to provide planning-oriented intermediate representations: textual Chain-of-Thought (CoT) fails to preserve continuous spatiotemporal structure, while latent world reasoning remains difficult to use as a direct condition for action generation. In this paper, we propose CoWorld-VLA, a multi-expert world reasoning framework for autonomous driving, where world representations serve as explicit conditions to guide action planning. CoWorld-VLA extracts complementary world information through multi-source supervision and encodes it into expert tokens within the VLA, thereby providing planner-accessible conditioning signals. Specifically, we construct four types of tokens: semantic interaction, geometric structure, dynamic evolution, and ego trajectory tokens, which respectively model interaction intent, spatial structure, future temporal dynamics, and behavioral goals. During action generation, CoWorld-VLA employs a diffusion-based hierarchical multi-expert fusion planner, which is coupled with scene context throughout the joint denoising process to generate continuous ego trajectories. Experiments show that CoWorld-VLA achieves competitive results in both future scene generation and planning on the NAVSIM v1 benchmark, demonstrating strong performance in collision avoidance and trajectory accuracy. Ablation studies further validate the complementarity of expert tokens and their effectiveness as planning conditions for action generation. Code will be available at https://github.com/AFARI-Research/CoWorld-VLA. |
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| spellingShingle | CoWorld-VLA: Thinking in a Multi-Expert World Model for Autonomous Driving Huang, Minqing Xiang, Yujiao Liang, Zihan Huang, Jiajie Wang, Jingqi Xu, Zhi Tan, Feiyang Zhou, Hangning Yang, Mu Che, Gong Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving. However, existing reasoning mechanisms still struggle to provide planning-oriented intermediate representations: textual Chain-of-Thought (CoT) fails to preserve continuous spatiotemporal structure, while latent world reasoning remains difficult to use as a direct condition for action generation. In this paper, we propose CoWorld-VLA, a multi-expert world reasoning framework for autonomous driving, where world representations serve as explicit conditions to guide action planning. CoWorld-VLA extracts complementary world information through multi-source supervision and encodes it into expert tokens within the VLA, thereby providing planner-accessible conditioning signals. Specifically, we construct four types of tokens: semantic interaction, geometric structure, dynamic evolution, and ego trajectory tokens, which respectively model interaction intent, spatial structure, future temporal dynamics, and behavioral goals. During action generation, CoWorld-VLA employs a diffusion-based hierarchical multi-expert fusion planner, which is coupled with scene context throughout the joint denoising process to generate continuous ego trajectories. Experiments show that CoWorld-VLA achieves competitive results in both future scene generation and planning on the NAVSIM v1 benchmark, demonstrating strong performance in collision avoidance and trajectory accuracy. Ablation studies further validate the complementarity of expert tokens and their effectiveness as planning conditions for action generation. Code will be available at https://github.com/AFARI-Research/CoWorld-VLA. |
| title | CoWorld-VLA: Thinking in a Multi-Expert World Model for Autonomous Driving |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10426 |