arxiv: 2605.04475 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-06 · 💻 cs.CV

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Information Coordination as a Bridge: A Neuro-Symbolic Architecture for Reliable Autonomous Driving Scene Understanding

Shuo Liu , Lei Shi , Haowen Liu , Jing Xu , Yufei Gao , Yucheng Shi

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keywords neuro-symbolic architectureautonomous drivingscene understandingmulti-sensor fusioninformation coordinationhallucination reductionBEV perceptionlanguage model reasoning

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The pith

Coordinating outputs from multiple sensors into one conflict-aware summary before language reasoning reduces inconsistent evidence in autonomous driving systems.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces a neuro-symbolic architecture called InfoCoordiBridge that places an explicit coordination step between perception and high-level reasoning. This step uses an ICA module to align and combine outputs from different sensors and agents into a single SceneSummary that records conflicts and preserves structured facts. The summary then grounds reasoning in a separate SSRE module. A sympathetic reader would care because current LLM-driven driving systems often pass raw redundant or contradictory perception results directly to the language model, which can produce unsafe or invented conclusions. If the coordination works, it would allow reliable scene understanding that stays verifiable at the reasoning stage while keeping detection performance intact.

Core claim

The paper claims that inserting an ICA module to fuse multi-agent perception outputs into one unified SceneSummary, followed by SceneSummary-grounded reasoning in the SSRE module, prevents redundant and cross-modally inconsistent perception evidence from reaching high-level language reasoning. On nuScenes and Waymo, this yields competitive 3D detection accuracy together with fusion consistency below 1 percent redundancy and about 98 percent attribute agreement, while on QA benchmarks it improves factual grounding and lowers hallucinated entity mentions relative to direct VLM and agentic baselines.

What carries the argument

The ICA module that aligns heterogeneous perception outputs and fuses them into a single conflict-aware SceneSummary containing typed structured facts and modality-focused synopses.

If this is right

The fused SceneSummary preserves competitive 3D object detection accuracy on nuScenes and Waymo while reducing redundancy below 1 percent and reaching roughly 98 percent attribute agreement across modalities.
Grounding reasoning in the SceneSummary via the SSRE module improves factual accuracy and cuts hallucinated entity mentions on NuScenes-QA and template-aligned Waymo-QA benchmarks.
Multi-agent perception produces typed structured facts that can be checked against the single summary before reasoning begins.
The BEV-centric design keeps the coordination step compatible with existing bird's-eye-view perception pipelines used in autonomous vehicles.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

The same coordination pattern could be tested in other safety-critical multi-modal settings such as robotic manipulation where language models must reason over camera and depth inputs.
Explicit symbolic summaries may prove necessary whenever language models are asked to interpret outputs from several heterogeneous sensors in real time.
Future experiments could measure whether the ICA fusion step remains effective when sensor dropout or severe weather creates larger gaps between modality outputs.

Load-bearing premise

The ICA module can reliably align and fuse outputs from different sensors into an accurate SceneSummary without losing critical details or creating new errors.

What would settle it

A direct comparison in which the coordinated SceneSummary produces lower 3D detection accuracy or more hallucinations than uncoordinated baselines on the same nuScenes or Waymo test cases would show the coordination step does not deliver the claimed benefit.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.04475 by Haowen Liu, Jing Xu, Lei Shi, Shuo Liu, Yucheng Shi, Yufei Gao.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Overview of InfoCoordiBridge: an explicit coordination bridge from multimodal perception to verifiable reasoning. To address this challenge, we propose InfoCoordiBridge, a structured neuro-symbolic view at source ↗

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Reliable autonomous driving requires scene understanding that is semantically consistent across heterogeneous sensors and verifiable at the reasoning stage. However, many recent LLM-driven driving systems attach the language model as a post-processor and force it to reason over redundant or conflicting perception outputs, which can amplify hallucinated entities and unsafe conclusions. This paper proposes InfoCoordiBridge, a BEV-centric neuro-symbolic architecture that inserts an explicit coordination bridge between perception and language reasoning. InfoCoordiBridge comprises (i) a unified multi-agent perception layer that outputs typed structured facts together with modality-focused synopses, (ii) an ICA module that aligns and fuses multi-source outputs into a single SceneSummary, and (iii) an SSRE module that performs SceneSummary-grounded reasoning with verification. Experiments on nuScenes and Waymo show that ICA preserves competitive 3D detection accuracy while substantially improving fusion consistency, reducing redundancy to below 1% and achieving about 98% attribute agreement. On NuScenes-QA and a template-aligned Waymo-QA benchmark, SSRE improves factual grounding and reduces hallucinated entity mentions compared with representative VLM and agentic baselines. Overall, by coordinating multi-sensor outputs into a single conflict-aware SceneSummary before prompting, InfoCoordiBridge prevents redundant and cross-modally inconsistent perception evidence from propagating into high-level reasoning.

Editorial analysis

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InfoCoordiBridge adds a concrete ICA fusion step to create one conflict-aware SceneSummary before LLM reasoning, which cuts redundancy on the reported benchmarks, but the fusion's accuracy on real sensor conflicts lacks direct ground-truth checks.

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The main takeaway is that this paper puts an explicit coordination layer between multi-sensor perception and language reasoning in autonomous driving. It uses a BEV setup with typed facts, an ICA module to build a single SceneSummary, and an SSRE module for grounded verification. That structure is new enough in the cited literature and directly targets the problem of feeding inconsistent or redundant outputs to LLMs, which often leads to hallucinations in driving QA tasks.

Referee Report

1 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces InfoCoordiBridge, a BEV-centric neuro-symbolic architecture for reliable autonomous driving scene understanding. It consists of a unified multi-agent perception layer outputting structured facts and synopses, an ICA module that aligns and fuses multi-source outputs into a single conflict-aware SceneSummary, and an SSRE module that performs SceneSummary-grounded reasoning with verification. Experiments on nuScenes and Waymo report that ICA maintains competitive 3D detection accuracy while reducing redundancy below 1% and achieving ~98% attribute agreement; SSRE then improves factual grounding and reduces hallucinated entities on NuScenes-QA and a template-aligned Waymo-QA benchmark relative to VLM and agentic baselines.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the work would be significant for autonomous driving by providing an explicit coordination layer that prevents redundant or cross-modally inconsistent perception evidence from reaching high-level LLM reasoning. The neuro-symbolic design, with its focus on verifiable SceneSummary representations, addresses a practical gap in current systems and could improve safety through better consistency and reduced hallucinations. The use of public benchmarks for both perception and QA evaluation is a positive aspect.

major comments (1)

The evaluation of the ICA module (as described in the methods and reported in the experimental results) relies solely on internal consistency metrics such as redundancy <1% and 98% attribute agreement. No controlled evaluation is presented in which the fused SceneSummary is scored for correctness against human-annotated ground-truth scene summaries in explicit sensor-conflict cases on ground-truth facts. This validation is load-bearing for the central claim that the ICA produces an accurate, conflict-resolved SceneSummary without dropping critical information or introducing fusion artifacts.

minor comments (2)

The abstract and results sections report quantitative gains without error bars, statistical significance tests, or detailed experimental protocols (including exact baselines, fusion rules inside ICA, and ablation studies), which hinders verification of the claimed improvements.
Notation for the invented entities 'SceneSummary', 'ICA module', and 'SSRE module' would benefit from an early formal definition or diagram to improve clarity for readers.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We appreciate the referee's detailed review and the opportunity to clarify and strengthen our work. We address the major comment regarding the evaluation of the ICA module below.

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Referee: The evaluation of the ICA module (as described in the methods and reported in the experimental results) relies solely on internal consistency metrics such as redundancy <1% and 98% attribute agreement. No controlled evaluation is presented in which the fused SceneSummary is scored for correctness against human-annotated ground-truth scene summaries in explicit sensor-conflict cases on ground-truth facts. This validation is load-bearing for the central claim that the ICA produces an accurate, conflict-resolved SceneSummary without dropping critical information or introducing fusion artifacts.

Authors: We thank the referee for highlighting this important aspect of validation. The current evaluation of ICA focuses on internal consistency metrics because they provide scalable, automatic measures of fusion quality across the entire dataset without requiring labor-intensive human annotations for every scene. These metrics directly address the paper's claims about reducing redundancy and improving attribute agreement. However, we agree that evaluating factual correctness against human-annotated ground-truth SceneSummaries in cases of explicit sensor conflicts would provide stronger evidence for the accuracy of the conflict resolution process. In the revised manuscript, we will include such an evaluation. Specifically, we will select a subset of scenes from nuScenes and Waymo that exhibit clear cross-modal conflicts (e.g., differing object detections or attributes between camera and LiDAR), manually create ground-truth SceneSummaries based on the raw data, and report agreement metrics (such as entity overlap and attribute accuracy) between the ICA-fused output and these annotations. This will demonstrate that the ICA resolves conflicts without dropping critical information or introducing artifacts. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: architecture and results rest on external benchmarks and explicit module definitions

full rationale

The paper presents a neuro-symbolic pipeline (multi-agent perception → ICA fusion into SceneSummary → SSRE reasoning) whose central claims are supported by experiments on public nuScenes and Waymo datasets measuring redundancy, attribute agreement, and downstream QA metrics. No equations, fitted parameters relabeled as predictions, self-definitional loops, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the derivation. The ICA and SSRE modules are described as explicit components whose behavior is evaluated against independent ground-truth annotations rather than being defined in terms of the target outcomes.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 3 invented entities

The abstract introduces new architectural components without specifying internal parameters or foundational assumptions beyond high-level descriptions.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Multi-modal sensor data can be represented as typed structured facts.
Core premise of the unified multi-agent perception layer.

invented entities (3)

SceneSummary no independent evidence
purpose: Single fused representation that records agreements and conflicts for grounded reasoning
Central new construct that bridges perception and reasoning stages.
ICA module no independent evidence
purpose: Align and fuse multi-source perception outputs
Specific fusion component of the proposed architecture.
SSRE module no independent evidence
purpose: SceneSummary-grounded reasoning with verification
Reasoning engine that operates on the coordinated summary.

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ICA resolves attribute-level conflicts by weighted evidence fusion ... w_k = m_k · r_k · q_k · u_k · γ_k ... information-weighted least-squares fusion ... Covariance Intersection (CI) when source lineage indicates correlation
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InfoCoordiBridge ... multi-agent perception, ICA-based coordination, and SceneSummary-driven reasoning (SSRE)

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