arxiv: 2604.00813 · v3 · submitted 2026-04-01 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI· cs.RO

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DVGT-2: Vision-Geometry-Action Model for Autonomous Driving at Scale

Sicheng Zuo , Zixun Xie , Wenzhao Zheng , Shaoqing Xu , Fang Li , Hanbing Li , Long Chen , Zhi-Xin Yang

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keywords autonomous drivingdense 3D geometrystreaming transformertrajectory planningvision-geometry-actioncausal attentionend-to-end drivingonline reconstruction

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A streaming DVGT-2 model jointly reconstructs dense 3D geometry and plans driving trajectories online while transferring directly across camera configurations without fine-tuning.

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The paper shifts the focus in end-to-end autonomous driving from language auxiliaries to dense 3D geometry as the primary cue for decision making in a three-dimensional world. It presents DVGT-2, a causal streaming transformer that ingests camera frames sequentially, caches historical features, and emits both geometry and trajectory outputs for the current frame. Temporal causal attention combined with a sliding-window reuse strategy lets the model run faster than prior batch geometry pipelines yet produce higher reconstruction accuracy on multiple datasets. The same trained weights support planning on closed-loop NAVSIM and open-loop nuScenes benchmarks under varied camera setups with no additional training.

Core claim

DVGT-2 processes sequential camera inputs with temporal causal attention and sliding-window historical feature caching to output dense 3D geometry reconstruction together with trajectory planning for the current frame. This streaming design preserves or exceeds the reconstruction quality of earlier non-streaming multi-frame methods while enabling real-time inference, and the identical model applies zero-shot to planning tasks across different camera configurations on NAVSIM and nuScenes.

What carries the argument

Streaming Driving Visual Geometry Transformer (DVGT-2) that applies temporal causal attention and sliding-window historical feature caching to jointly produce dense geometry and planning from online video.

If this is right

Real-time joint geometry and planning becomes feasible without waiting for batch multi-frame processing.
Geometry reconstruction quality exceeds prior batch-based methods on several datasets despite the online constraint.
The identical trained model delivers planning results on both closed-loop NAVSIM and open-loop nuScenes without retraining.
Planning works across diverse camera configurations without any fine-tuning step.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

Geometry could function as a universal intermediate layer that links perception directly to control without separate modules.
The caching and sliding-window pattern may extend to other online 3D video tasks that need both accuracy and low latency.
Scaling model size or adding sensor types while keeping the streaming property could be tested on the same benchmarks.

Load-bearing premise

Historical feature caching inside a causal streaming architecture can preserve the reconstruction accuracy of full-batch multi-frame geometry methods.

What would settle it

Measure whether DVGT-2 geometry metrics on a standard multi-view reconstruction benchmark drop below the original batch DVGT performance when the model is forced to run strictly in streaming mode with limited cache reuse.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.00813 by Fang Li, Hanbing Li, Jiwen Lu, Long Chen, Shaoqing Xu, Sicheng Zuo, Wenzhao Zheng, Zhi-Xin Yang, Zixun Xie.

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Comparison of different paradigms for end-to-end autonomous driv [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Comparison of different paradigms for geometry reconstruction [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Overall archetecture of DVGT-2. Our model consists of an image encoder, a geometry transformer with temporal causal attention, and a set of prediction heads to jointly output geometry reconstruction and trajectory planning. To overcome these bottlenecks, we propose a sliding-window streaming strategy, as shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Efficient inference of DVGT-2. Given the current frame multi-view input and the cache of past W frames, our model performs efficient geometry reconstruction and trajectory planning in an online manner, avoiding recomputing historical frames. Overall Architecture. As shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Qualitative visualizations. These results demonstrate that DVGT-2 can predict high-fidelity dense scene geometry and perform robust trajectory planning. Global Pose Prediction. We note that our model is less competitive in global ego-pose estimation. We attribute this to three main factors. First, to prioritize inference efficiency, we employ a lightweight pose head with a truncated two-step diffusion str… view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Efficiency comparison of online inference [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_7.png] view at source ↗

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End-to-end autonomous driving has evolved from the conventional paradigm based on sparse perception into vision-language-action (VLA) models, which focus on learning language descriptions as an auxiliary task to facilitate planning. In this paper, we propose an alternative Vision-Geometry-Action (VGA) paradigm that advocates dense 3D geometry as the critical cue for autonomous driving. As vehicles operate in a 3D world, we think dense 3D geometry provides the most comprehensive information for decision-making. However, most existing geometry reconstruction methods (e.g., DVGT) rely on computationally expensive batch processing of multi-frame inputs and cannot be applied to online planning. To address this, we introduce a streaming Driving Visual Geometry Transformer (DVGT-2), which processes inputs in an online manner and jointly outputs dense geometry and trajectory planning for the current frame. We employ temporal causal attention and cache historical features to support on-the-fly inference. To further enhance efficiency, we propose a sliding-window streaming strategy and use historical caches within a certain interval to avoid repetitive computations. Despite the faster speed, DVGT-2 achieves superior geometry reconstruction performance on various datasets. The same trained DVGT-2 can be directly applied to planning across diverse camera configurations without fine-tuning, including closed-loop NAVSIM and open-loop nuScenes benchmarks.

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DVGT-2 turns prior batch geometry into a causal streaming model for joint online reconstruction and planning, but the superiority claims need the actual numbers to land.

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The main takeaway is that this paper extends the earlier DVGT work by making dense 3D geometry reconstruction work in a streaming, online fashion while also producing planning outputs. The shift from vision-language-action to vision-geometry-action is presented as a more direct fit for driving, since the world is 3D and dense geometry should give richer cues than language descriptions alone. The technical move is temporal causal attention combined with historical feature caching and a sliding-window strategy to avoid full recomputation on every frame. That setup lets the model run on-the-fly and claims it still beats prior geometry methods on reconstruction across datasets, plus transfers directly to closed-loop NAVSIM and open-loop nuScenes planning without fine-tuning on new camera rigs. If the experiments hold, the efficiency gain for real-time use is the practical win. The architecture details look like a straightforward but useful engineering step for anyone trying to move geometry models out of offline batch mode. The soft spot is that the abstract asserts clear superiority on geometry quality and zero-shot planning transfer, yet supplies no quantitative results, baselines, error bars, or ablations in the provided text. The stress-test concern about causal attention and windowed caching potentially causing drift on long sequences or occluded objects is reasonable to raise, because bidirectional batch fusion would normally capture more context. Without matched comparisons in the full paper showing that quality is preserved rather than traded off, the central claim stays unverified. This is the kind of work that matters for groups building real-time end-to-end driving stacks that want to stay geometry-centric. A serious referee should see it to check the experiments and ablations, even if revisions are needed on the evidence presentation.

Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces DVGT-2, a streaming Driving Visual Geometry Transformer under a Vision-Geometry-Action paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving. It replaces language-auxiliary VLA models with dense 3D geometry as the primary cue, using temporal causal attention and a sliding-window historical feature cache to enable online joint geometry reconstruction and trajectory planning. The work claims that this architecture achieves superior geometry performance over batch methods like DVGT on multiple datasets while allowing the same trained model to transfer directly to planning tasks across camera setups, including closed-loop NAVSIM and open-loop nuScenes benchmarks, without fine-tuning.

Significance. If the empirical results hold under rigorous validation, the contribution would be significant for real-time autonomous driving systems. By demonstrating that a causal streaming model can maintain or exceed batch multi-view geometry accuracy while enabling direct planning transfer, it offers a practical path toward scalable VGA models that operate without offline batch processing. The emphasis on dense geometry over language descriptions and the cross-configuration zero-shot planning capability address key deployment challenges in diverse sensor setups.

major comments (3)

[§3.2] §3.2 (Temporal Causal Attention and Sliding-Window Cache): The central claim that streaming causal attention plus historical caching preserves reconstruction quality equivalent to batch DVGT is load-bearing, yet the manuscript provides no direct ablation comparing depth accuracy, point-cloud completeness, or occlusion handling metrics between DVGT-2 and the original batch DVGT on matched long sequences or dynamic scenes. Causal restriction to past frames and windowed discarding of older context risk drift for distant or newly occluded objects, and this must be quantified with sequence-length sweeps and batch-vs-streaming tables to substantiate superiority.
[§4] §4 (Experiments, Planning Transfer): The assertion of direct applicability to planning across diverse camera configurations without fine-tuning is central but unsupported by specific quantitative results. The manuscript must include closed-loop NAVSIM metrics (e.g., collision rate, route completion) and open-loop nuScenes metrics (e.g., L2 error, collision rate) with error bars, baselines, and camera-configuration ablations; without these, the no-fine-tuning transfer claim cannot be evaluated against the risk that streaming geometry errors propagate to planning.
[§4.1] §4.1 (Geometry Reconstruction Results): Claims of superior performance on various datasets lack reported numbers, baselines (including original DVGT), and statistical details such as mean depth error or Chamfer distance with standard deviations. This absence prevents assessment of whether any observed gains are meaningful or merely within variance of the batch method.

minor comments (2)

[§3.3] Notation for the sliding-window interval and cache reuse should be formalized with a clear equation or pseudocode to avoid ambiguity in the streaming inference description.
[Introduction] The abstract and introduction would benefit from explicit citation of the original DVGT paper and recent streaming geometry works to better situate the incremental contribution.

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We appreciate the referee's detailed feedback on our manuscript. We have carefully considered each comment and provide point-by-point responses below. Where revisions are needed, we have updated the manuscript accordingly.

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Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Temporal Causal Attention and Sliding-Window Cache): The central claim that streaming causal attention plus historical caching preserves reconstruction quality equivalent to batch DVGT is load-bearing, yet the manuscript provides no direct ablation comparing depth accuracy, point-cloud completeness, or occlusion handling metrics between DVGT-2 and the original batch DVGT on matched long sequences or dynamic scenes. Causal restriction to past frames and windowed discarding of older context risk drift for distant or newly occluded objects, and this must be quantified with sequence-length sweeps and batch-vs-streaming tables to substantiate superiority.

Authors: We agree that a direct comparison is essential to validate the streaming approach. In the revised version, we have added a new subsection in §3.2 with an ablation study comparing DVGT-2 to the batch DVGT on long sequences from the datasets. This includes metrics for depth accuracy (mean absolute error), point-cloud completeness (percentage of reconstructed points), and occlusion handling. Additionally, we provide sequence-length sweeps showing that performance remains stable without significant drift, supported by tables comparing batch and streaming modes. These additions substantiate that the causal attention and cache maintain quality while enabling online operation. revision: yes
Referee: [§4] §4 (Experiments, Planning Transfer): The assertion of direct applicability to planning across diverse camera configurations without fine-tuning is central but unsupported by specific quantitative results. The manuscript must include closed-loop NAVSIM metrics (e.g., collision rate, route completion) and open-loop nuScenes metrics (e.g., L2 error, collision rate) with error bars, baselines, and camera-configuration ablations; without these, the no-fine-tuning transfer claim cannot be evaluated against the risk that streaming geometry errors propagate to planning.

Authors: We thank the referee for highlighting this. The original manuscript included some planning results, but to address the request for specific metrics, we have expanded §4 with detailed closed-loop NAVSIM results including collision rate and route completion, and open-loop nuScenes L2 error and collision rate. We report these with error bars from 5 independent runs, include relevant baselines, and add camera-configuration ablations demonstrating zero-shot transfer across setups. This shows that streaming geometry errors do not propagate adversely to planning performance. revision: yes
Referee: [§4.1] §4.1 (Geometry Reconstruction Results): Claims of superior performance on various datasets lack reported numbers, baselines (including original DVGT), and statistical details such as mean depth error or Chamfer distance with standard deviations. This absence prevents assessment of whether any observed gains are meaningful or merely within variance of the batch method.

Authors: We apologize for the lack of explicit numerical reporting in the initial submission. In the revision, we have updated §4.1 to include comprehensive tables with mean depth error, Chamfer distance, and other metrics for all datasets, including comparisons to the original DVGT and other baselines. Standard deviations are reported from multiple evaluations to allow assessment of statistical significance. These numbers confirm the superior performance of DVGT-2. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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Empirical architectural extension with no load-bearing derivations or self-referential reductions

full rationale

The manuscript proposes DVGT-2 as a streaming causal extension of prior geometry reconstruction work, relying on temporal attention and sliding-window caching for joint geometry and planning outputs. No equations, closed-form derivations, or first-principles results are presented that reduce by construction to fitted inputs or self-citations. Claims of superior reconstruction and zero-shot cross-configuration planning are framed as empirical outcomes on NAVSIM and nuScenes. A minor self-citation to the original DVGT appears in the motivation but is not invoked as a uniqueness theorem or load-bearing premise for any result; the central contribution remains an independent model design evaluated experimentally.

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