# GEMINUS: Dual-aware Global and Scene-Adaptive Mixture-of-Experts for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14456 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.14456/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in End-to-end system architecture, one of 9 directions in End-to-end autonomous driving.
- Builds on 33 of its 42 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 19 Jul 2025.

## Placed in

- End-to-end autonomous driving / [End-to-end system architecture](https://mlsanity.com/driving/end-to-end-system-architecture/)
- Mixture-of-experts / [MoE in reinforcement learning and robotics](https://mlsanity.com/moe/moe-in-reinforcement-learning-and-robotics/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 33)

- [Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1412.6980/) (2014)
- [Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder-Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1406.1078/) (2014)
- [Planning-oriented Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.10156/) (2022)
- [DeepSeekMoE: Towards Ultimate Expert Specialization in Mixture-of-Experts Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.06066/) (2024)
- [VAD: Vectorized Scene Representation for Efficient Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.12077/) (2023)
- [VectorNet: Encoding HD Maps and Agent Dynamics from Vectorized Representation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.04259/) (2020)
- [End-to-end Autonomous Driving: Challenges and Frontiers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.16927/) (2023)
- [End-to-end Driving via Conditional Imitation Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1710.02410/) (2017)
- [TransFuser: Imitation with Transformer-Based Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.15997/) (2022)
- [Learning Lane Graph Representations for Motion Forecasting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.13732/) (2020)
- [Exploring the Limitations of Behavior Cloning for Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.08980/) (2019)
- [DiffusionDrive: Truncated Diffusion Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.15139/) (2024)
- [Learning to Drive in a Day](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.00412/) (2018)
- [Bench2Drive: Towards Multi-Ability Benchmarking of Closed-Loop End-To-End Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.03877/) (2024)
- [Hydra-MDP: End-to-end Multimodal Planning with Multi-target Hydra-Distillation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.06978/) (2024)
- [Trajectory-guided Control Prediction for End-to-end Autonomous Driving: A Simple yet Strong Baseline](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.08129/) (2022)
- [SparseDrive: End-to-End Autonomous Driving via Sparse Scene Representation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.19620/) (2024)
- [GenAD: Generative End-to-End Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.11502/) (2024)
- [End-to-End Urban Driving by Imitating a Reinforcement Learning Coach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.08265/) (2021)
- [Think Twice before Driving: Towards Scalable Decoders for End-to-End Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.06242/) (2023)
- [DriveAdapter: Breaking the Coupling Barrier of Perception and Planning in End-to-End Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.00398/) (2023)
- [Beyond Distillation: Task-level Mixture-of-Experts for Efficient Inference](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.03742/) (2021)
- [Hidden Biases of End-to-End Driving Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.07957/) (2023)
- [A Comprehensive Survey of Mixture-of-Experts: Algorithms, Theory, and Applications](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.07137/) (2025)
- [Don't Shake the Wheel: Momentum-Aware Planning in End-to-End Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.03125/) (2025)
- [Safe Real-World Autonomous Driving by Learning to Predict and Plan with a Mixture of Experts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.02131/) (2022)
- [DAMEX: Dataset-aware Mixture-of-Experts for visual understanding of mixture-of-datasets](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.04894/) (2023)
- [Generalizing Motion Planners with Mixture of Experts for Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.15774/) (2024)
- [EDA: Evolving and Distinct Anchors for Multimodal Motion Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.09501/) (2023)
- [Co-MTP: A Cooperative Trajectory Prediction Framework with Multi-Temporal Fusion for Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.16589/) (2025)

## Built on by (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [SpaceDrive: Infusing Spatial Awareness into VLM-based Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.10719/) (2025)
- [A Knowledge-Driven Diffusion Policy for End-to-End Autonomous Driving Based on Expert Routing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.04853/) (2025)
- [D3-MoE:Dual Disentangled Diffusion Mixture-of-Experts for Style-Controllable End-to-End Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.04884/) (2026)
- [OmniSpace: Efficient Geometry Awareness for Autonomous Vehicles MLLMs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.22617/) (2026)
- [Risk-Aware Decision-Making for Autonomous Overtaking: A World Model-Based Mixture-of-Experts Framework](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.00385/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

End-to-end autonomous driving requires adaptive and robust handling of complex and diverse traffic environments. However, prevalent single-mode planning methods attempt to learn an overall policy while struggling to acquire diversified driving skills to handle diverse scenarios. Therefore, this paper proposes GEMINUS, a Mixture-of-Experts end-to-end autonomous driving framework featuring a Global Expert and a Scene-Adaptive Experts Group, equipped with a Dual-aware Router. Specifically, the Global Expert is trained on the overall dataset, possessing robust performance. The Scene-Adaptive Experts are trained on corresponding scene subsets, achieving adaptive performance. The Dual-aware Router simultaneously considers scenario-level features and routing uncertainty to dynamically activate expert modules. Through the effective coupling of the Global Expert and the Scene-Adaptive Experts Group via the Dual-aware Router, GEMINUS achieves both adaptability and robustness across diverse scenarios. GEMINUS outperforms existing methods in the Bench2Drive closed-loop benchmark and achieves state-of-the-art performance in Driving Score and Success Rate, even with only monocular vision input. The code is available at https://github.com/newbrains1/GEMINUS.
