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Physics-informed Diffusion Mamba Transformer for Real-world Driving

arXiv 2602.00808 ↗First posted 31 Jan 2026cs.ROcited by 1

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Abstract (arXiv)

Autonomous driving systems demand trajectory planners that not only model the inherent uncertainty of future motions but also respect complex temporal dependencies and underlying physical laws. While diffusion-based generative models excel at capturing multi-modal distributions, they often fail to incorporate long-term sequential contexts and domain-specific physical priors. In this work, we bridge these gaps with two key innovations. First, we introduce a Diffusion Mamba Transformer architecture that embeds mamba and attention into the diffusion process, enabling more effective aggregation of sequential input contexts from sensor streams and past motion histories. Second, we design a Port-Hamiltonian Neural Network module that seamlessly integrates energy-based physical constraints into the diffusion model, thereby enhancing trajectory predictions with both consistency and interpretability. Extensive evaluations on standard autonomous driving benchmarks demonstrate that our unified framework significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in predictive accuracy, physical plausibility, and robustness, thereby advancing safe and reliable motion planning.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Diffusion and flow policies for robotics, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 27 of its 35 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 31 Jan 2026.

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27 of 35 references.

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  1. 2025DiffAD: A Unified Diffusion Modeling Approach for Autonomous Driving15 Mar
  2. 2025Diverse Controllable Diffusion Policy with Signal Temporal Logic4 Mar
  3. 2024DiffusionDrive: Truncated Diffusion Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving22 Nov

Other references · 24

  1. 2017Attention Is All You Needcited by 59,932
  2. 2020An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scalecited by 29,915
  3. 2020Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Modelscited by 20,851
  4. 2015U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentationcited by 19,604
  5. 2022Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformerscited by 5,931
  6. 2023Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spacescited by 4,616
  7. 2021Variational Diffusion Modelscited by 1,145
  8. 2022DPM-Solver++: Fast Solver for Guided Sampling of Diffusion Probabilistic Modelscited by 924
  9. 2019Hamiltonian Neural Networkscited by 702
  10. 2021NuPlan: A closed-loop ML-based planning benchmark for autonomous vehiclescited by 485
  11. 2016A Survey of Motion Planning and Control Techniques for Self-driving Urban Vehiclescited by 251
  12. 2023Parting with Misconceptions about Learning-based Vehicle Motion Planningcited by 238
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  1. 2020Transformer Networks for Trajectory Forecastingcited by 180
  2. 2023GameFormer: Game-theoretic Modeling and Learning of Transformer-based Interactive Prediction and Planning for Autonomous Drivingcited by 141
  3. 2025Diffusion-Based Planning for Autonomous Driving with Flexible Guidancecited by 138
  4. 2021Urban Driver: Learning to Drive from Real-world Demonstrations Using Policy Gradientscited by 122
  5. 2021LookOut: Diverse Multi-Future Prediction and Planning for Self-Drivingcited by 96
  6. 2024PLUTO: Pushing the Limit of Imitation Learning-based Planning for Autonomous Drivingcited by 84
  7. 2021Port-Hamiltonian Neural Networks for Learning Explicit Time-Dependent Dynamical Systemscited by 66
  8. 2022Dissipative Hamiltonian Neural Networks: Learning Dissipative and Conservative Dynamics Separatelycited by 46
  9. 2023Rethinking Imitation-based Planner for Autonomous Drivingcited by 25
  10. 2025Trajectory Mamba: Efficient Attention-Mamba Forecasting Model Based on Selective SSMcited by 17
  11. 2024Physics-informed Imitative Reinforcement Learning for Real-world Drivingcited by 2
  12. 2025HAMF: A Hybrid Attention-Mamba Framework for Joint Scene Context Understanding and Future Motion Representation Learningcited by 2

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