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OneDrive: Unified Multi-Paradigm Driving with Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv 2604.17915 ↗First posted 20 Apr 2026cs.CVcited by 3

On the map: Multimodal LLMs / vision-language models → Driving VLMs and open-vocabulary detection

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Abstract (arXiv)

Vision-Language Models(VLMs) excel at autoregressive text generation, yet end-to-end autonomous driving requires multi-task learning with structured outputs and heterogeneous decoding behaviors, such as autoregressive language generation, parallel object detection and trajectory regression. To accommodate these differences, existing systems typically introduce separate or cascaded decoders, resulting in architectural fragmentation and limited backbone reuse. In this work, we present a unified autonomous driving framework built upon a pretrained VLM, where heterogeneous decoding behaviors are reconciled within a single transformer decoder. We demonstrate that pretrained VLM attention exhibits strong transferability beyond pure language modeling. By organizing visual and structured query tokens within a single causal decoder, structured queries can naturally condition on visual context through the original attention mechanism. Textual and structured outputs share a common attention backbone, enabling stable joint optimization across heterogeneous tasks. Trajectory planning is realized within the same causal LLM decoder by introducing structured trajectory queries. This unified formulation enables planning to share the pretrained attention backbone with images and perception tokens. Extensive experiments on end-to-end autonomous driving benchmarks demonstrate state-of-the-art performance, including 0.28 L2 and 0.18 collision rate on nuScenes open-loop evaluation and competitive results (86.8 PDMS) on NAVSIM closed-loop evaluation. The full model preserves multi-modal generation capability, while an efficient inference mode achieves approximately 40% lower latency. Code and models are available at https://github.com/Z1zyw/OneDrive

Key facts. Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Driving VLMs and open-vocabulary detection, one of 16 directions in Multimodal LLMs / vision-language models. Builds on 54 of its 57 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 20 Apr 2026.

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  7. 2024DriveVLM: The Convergence of Autonomous Driving and Large Vision-Language Models19 Feb
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  6. 2024MiniDrive: More Efficient Vision-Language Models with Multi-Level 2D Features as Text Tokens for Autonomous Driving
  7. 2026VECTOR-Drive: Tightly Coupled Vision-Language and Trajectory Expert Routing for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
  8. 2026Qwen-Drive-1.0: An Initial Step towards a Vision-Language Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving