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MVAdapt: Zero-Shot Multi-Vehicle Adaptation for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

arXiv 2604.11854 ↗First posted 13 Apr 2026cs.RO cs.AIcited by 1

On the map: End-to-end autonomous driving → End-to-end system architecture

Abstract (arXiv)

End-to-End (E2E) autonomous driving models are usually trained and evaluated with a fixed ego-vehicle, even though their driving policy is implicitly tied to vehicle dynamics. When such a model is deployed on a vehicle with different size, mass, or drivetrain characteristics, its performance can degrade substantially; we refer to this problem as the vehicle-domain gap. To address it, we propose MVAdapt, a physics-conditioned adaptation framework for multi-vehicle E2E driving. MVAdapt combines a frozen TransFuser++ scene encoder with a lightweight physics encoder and a cross-attention module that conditions scene features on vehicle properties before waypoint decoding. In the CARLA Leaderboard 1.0 benchmark, MVAdapt improves over naive transfer and multi-embodiment adaptation baselines on both in-distribution and unseen vehicles. We further show two complementary behaviors: strong zero-shot transfer on many unseen vehicles, and data-efficient few-shot calibration for severe physical outliers. These results suggest that explicitly conditioning E2E driving policies on vehicle physics is an effective step toward more transferable autonomous driving models. All codes are available at https://github.com/hae-sung-oh/MVAdapt

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper 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 34 of its 42 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 13 Apr 2026.

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34 of 42 references.

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