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ARXIV:2604.01765 · EMBODIED AI / DRIVING SIMULATION · SUBMITTED 03 APR · 20:50 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2604.01765EMBODIED AI / DRIVING SIMULATIONSUBMITTED 03 APR · 20:50 UTCFRESHNESS STALEYang Zhou · Xiaofeng Wang · Hao Shao · Letian Wang · Guosheng Zhao · Jiangnan Shao · +5 at arXiv
A geometry-grounded world-action model for unified driving simulation, future prediction, and motion planning.
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A geometry-grounded world-action model for unified driving simulation, future prediction, and motion planning. However, existing WAM approaches often focus on modeling 2D appearance or latent representations, with limited geometric grounding-an essential element for embodied…
Recently, world-action models (WAM) have emerged to bridge vision-language-action (VLA) models and world models, unifying their reasoning and instruction-following capabilities and spatio-temporal world modeling. However, existing WAM approaches often focus on modeling 2D appearance…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Experiments on the Navsim v1 and v2 benchmarks demonstrate that DriveDreamer-Policy achieves strong performance on both closed-loop planning and world generation tasks. Code availability…
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A geometry-grounded world-action model for unified driving simulation, future prediction, and motion planning.
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10.48550/arXiv.2604.01765A geometry-grounded world-action model for unified driving simulation, future prediction, and motion planning.
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Recently, world-action models (WAM) have emerged to bridge vision-language-action (VLA) models and world models, unifying their reasoning and instruction-following capabilities and spatio-temporal world modeling. However, existing WAM approaches often focus on modeling 2D appearance or latent representations, with limited geometric grounding-an essential element for embodied systems operating in the physical world. We present DriveDreamer-Policy, a unified driving world-action model that integrates depth generation, future video generation, and motion planning within a single modular architecture. The model employs a large language model to process language instructions, multi-view images, and actions, followed by three lightweight generators that produce depth, future video, and actions. By learning a geometry-aware world representation and using it to guide both future prediction and planning within a unified framework, the proposed model produces more coherent imagined futures and more informed driving actions, while maintaining modularity and controllable latency. Experiments on the Navsim v1 and v2 benchmarks demonstrate that DriveDreamer-Policy achieves strong performance on both closed-loop planning and world generation tasks. In particular, our model reaches 89.2 PDMS on Navsim v1 and 88.7 EPDMS on Navsim v2, outperforming existing world-model-based approaches while producing higher-quality future video and depth predictions. Ablation studies further show that explicit depth learning provides complementary benefits to video imagination and improves planning robustness.
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A geometry-grounded world-action model for unified driving simulation, future prediction, and motion planning. However, existing WAM approaches often focus on modeling 2D appearance or latent representations, with limited geometric grounding-an essential element for embodied sys...
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Recently, world-action models (WAM) have emerged to bridge vision-language-action (VLA) models and world models, unifying their reasoning and instruction-following capabilities and spatio-temporal world modeling. However, existing WAM approaches often focus on modeling 2D appear...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Experiments on the Navsim v1 and v2 benchmarks demonstrate that DriveDreamer-Policy achieves strong performance on both closed-loop planning and world generation tasks. Code availability is flagged in the...
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Embodied AI / Driving Simulation moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
our model reaches 89.2 PDMS on Navsim v1
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outperforming existing world-model-based approaches
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explicit depth learning provides complementary benefits to video imagination and improves planning robustness
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producing higher-quality future video and depth predictions
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existing WAM approaches often focus on modeling 2D appearance or latent representations, with limited geometric grounding
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integrates depth generation, future video generation, and motion planning within a single modular architecture
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while maintaining modularity and controllable latency
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