End-to-end Autonomous Driving using Deep Learning: A Systematic Review
On the map: End-to-end autonomous driving → End-to-end system architecture
Abstract (arXiv)
End-to-end autonomous driving is a fully differentiable machine learning system that takes raw sensor input data and other metadata as prior information and directly outputs the ego vehicle's control signals or planned trajectories. This paper attempts to systematically review all recent Machine Learning-based techniques to perform this end-to-end task, including, but not limited to, object detection, semantic scene understanding, object tracking, trajectory predictions, trajectory planning, vehicle control, social behavior, and communications. This paper focuses on recent fully differentiable end-to-end reinforcement learning and deep learning-based techniques. Our paper also builds taxonomies of the significant approaches by sub-grouping them and showcasing their research trends. Finally, this survey highlights the open challenges and points out possible future directions to enlighten further research on the topic.
Key facts. Cited by 7 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in End-to-end system architecture, one of 9 directions in End-to-end autonomous driving. Builds on 31 of its 40 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 27 Aug 2023.
Builds on
31 of 40 references.
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Same direction, newest first
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- 2023End-to-end Autonomous Driving: Challenges and Frontiers29 Jun
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- 2021NuPlan: A closed-loop ML-based planning benchmark for autonomous vehicles22 Jun
- 2021End-to-end Interpretable Neural Motion Planner17 Jan
Other references · 26
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Citing papers per year: 2024: 3; 2025: 3; 2026: 1.
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- 2024Image-Guided Outdoor LiDAR Perception Quality Assessment for Autonomous Drivingcited by 3
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- 2025To New Beginnings: A Survey of Unified Perception in Autonomous Vehicle Softwarecited by 1
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- 2025CoReVLA: A Dual-Stage End-to-End Autonomous Driving Framework for Long-Tail Scenarios via Collect-and-Refine19 Sep 2025
- 2025To New Beginnings: A Survey of Unified Perception in Autonomous Vehicle Software28 Aug 2025
- 2025VDT-Auto: End-to-end Autonomous Driving with VLM-Guided Diffusion Transformers27 Feb 2025
- 2024Optical Flow Matters: an Empirical Comparative Study on Fusing Monocular Extracted Modalities for Better Steering18 Sep 2024
- 2024Image-Guided Outdoor LiDAR Perception Quality Assessment for Autonomous Driving25 Jun 2024
- 2024Delving into Multi-modal Multi-task Foundation Models for Road Scene Understanding: From Learning Paradigm Perspectives5 Feb 2024
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