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ARXIV:2602.11656 · AUTONOMOUS DRIVING · SUBMITTED 19 MAR · 18:48 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2602.11656AUTONOMOUS DRIVINGSUBMITTED 19 MAR · 18:48 UTCFRESHNESS STALEarXiv
SToRM offers a token reduction framework for efficient multi-modal LLMs in autonomous driving, promising reduced computational costs without sacrificing performance.
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SToRM offers a token reduction framework for efficient multi-modal LLMs in autonomous driving, promising reduced computational costs without sacrificing performance. For safe driving in unexpected scenarios, these systems may additionally rely on human interventions…
In autonomous driving, end-to-end (E2E) driving systems that predict control commands directly from sensor data have achieved significant advancements. For safe driving in unexpected scenarios, these systems may additionally rely on human interventions such…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Using a multi-modal large language model (MLLM) facilitates human-vehicle interaction and can improve performance in such scenarios.
Autonomous Driving moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10.
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SToRM offers a token reduction framework for efficient multi-modal LLMs in autonomous driving, promising reduced computational costs without sacrificing performance.
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10.48550/arXiv.2602.11656SToRM offers a token reduction framework for efficient multi-modal LLMs in autonomous driving, promising reduced computational costs without sacrificing performance.
Abstract
In autonomous driving, end-to-end (E2E) driving systems that predict control commands directly from sensor data have achieved significant advancements. For safe driving in unexpected scenarios, these systems may additionally rely on human interventions such as natural language instructions. Using a multi-modal large language model (MLLM) facilitates human-vehicle interaction and can improve performance in such scenarios. However, this approach requires substantial computational resources due to its reliance on an LLM and numerous visual tokens from sensor inputs, which are limited in autonomous vehicles. Many MLLM studies have explored reducing visual tokens, but often suffer end-task performance degradation compared to using all tokens. To enable efficient E2E driving while maintaining performance comparable to using all tokens, this paper proposes the first Supervised Token Reduction framework for multi-modal LLMs (SToRM). The proposed framework consists of three key elements. First, a lightweight importance predictor with short-term sliding windows estimates token importance scores. Second, a supervised training approach uses an auxiliary path to obtain pseudo-supervision signals from an all-token LLM pass. Third, an anchor-context merging module partitions tokens into anchors and context tokens, and merges context tokens into relevant anchors to reduce redundancy while minimizing information loss. Experiments on the LangAuto benchmark show that SToRM outperforms state-of-the-art E2E driving MLLMs under the same reduced-token budget, maintaining all-token performance while reducing computational cost by up to 30x.
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SToRM offers a token reduction framework for efficient multi-modal LLMs in autonomous driving, promising reduced computational costs without sacrificing performance. For safe driving in unexpected scenarios, these systems may additionally rely on human interventions such as natu...
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In autonomous driving, end-to-end (E2E) driving systems that predict control commands directly from sensor data have achieved significant advancements. For safe driving in unexpected scenarios, these systems may additionally rely on human interventions such as natural language i...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Using a multi-modal large language model (MLLM) facilitates human-vehicle interaction and can improve performance in such scenarios.
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Autonomous Driving moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10.
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SToRM offers a token reduction framework for efficient multi-modal LLMs in autonomous driving, promising reduced computational costs without sacrificing performance. For safe driving in unexpected scenarios, these systems may additionally rely on human interventions such as natural language instructions.
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In autonomous driving, end-to-end (E2E) driving systems that predict control commands directly from sensor data have achieved significant advancements. For safe driving in unexpected scenarios, these systems may additionally rely on human interventions such as natural language instructions.
Abstract-backed fallback claim; anchored extraction has not materialized a public claim row yet.
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Using a multi-modal large language model (MLLM) facilitates human-vehicle interaction and can improve performance in such scenarios.
Abstract-backed fallback claim; anchored extraction has not materialized a public claim row yet.
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Autonomous Driving moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10.
Abstract-backed fallback claim; anchored extraction has not materialized a public claim row yet.
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SToRM offers a token reduction framework for efficient multi-modal LLMs in autonomous driving, promising reduced computational costs without sacrificing performance.
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