Pith. sign in

Vavim and vavam: Autonomous driving through video generative modeling

14 Pith papers cite this work. Polarity classification is still indexing.

14 Pith papers citing it
abstract

We explore the potential of large-scale generative video models for autonomous driving, introducing an open-source auto-regressive video model (VaViM) and its companion video-action model (VaVAM) to investigate how video pre-training transfers to real-world driving. VaViM is a simple auto-regressive video model that predicts frames using spatio-temporal token sequences. We show that it captures the semantics and dynamics of driving scenes. VaVAM, the video-action model, leverages the learned representations of VaViM to generate driving trajectories through imitation learning. Together, the models form a complete perception-to-action pipeline. We evaluate our models in open- and closed-loop driving scenarios, revealing that video-based pre-training holds promise for autonomous driving. Key insights include the semantic richness of the learned representations, the benefits of scaling for video synthesis, and the complex relationship between model size, data, and safety metrics in closed-loop evaluations. We release code and model weights at https://github.com/valeoai/VideoActionModel

citation-role summary

background 3

citation-polarity summary

years

2026 11 2025 3

roles

background 3

polarities

background 3

representative citing papers

4DLidarOpen: An Open 4D FMCW Lidar Dataset for Motion-Aware Autonomous Driving

cs.RO · 2026-05-18 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

4DLidarOpen is a new open dataset providing synchronized 4D FMCW Lidar velocity measurements, multi-Lidar and camera data, and 3D bounding-box annotations with track IDs to support benchmarks on 3D detection, BEV segmentation, flow prediction, and motion forecasting.

The DAWN of World-Action Interactive Models

cs.CV · 2026-05-12 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

DAWN couples a world predictor with a world-conditioned action denoiser in latent space so that each refines the other recursively, yielding strong planning and safety results on autonomous driving benchmarks.

ReWorld: Learning Better Representations for World Action Models

cs.CV · 2026-06-25 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

ReWorld applies future-predictive, cross-modal, and hard-negative supervision directly to intermediate representations in Video and Action DiTs for WAMs, reporting 23.9% FVD improvement and PDMS rise from 89.1 to 90.4 on nuScenes and NAVSIM.

citing papers explorer

Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.