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UniTeD: Unified Temporal Diffusion for Joint Perception and Planning in Autonomous Driving

Bo Zhao , Xinting Zhao , Naifan Li , Erkang Cheng , Haibin Ling This is my paper

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UniTeD places perception and planning inside one shared diffusion denoising process for autonomous driving.

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The paper argues that separating perception networks from diffusion-based planning lets perception mistakes reach the planner unchanged and makes optimization harder. It proposes instead that both tasks share a single generative diffusion space so that iterative denoising lets each task refine the other through bidirectional information flow. Noise-conditioned multi-task training then adds robustness. The same unified process is extended to streaming video by adding a temporal transition module to handle noise level differences across frames and an anchor refresh strategy to fix training-inference mismatch, yielding state-of-the-art results on standard driving benchmarks.

Core claim

UniTeD jointly models perception and planning through iterative denoising in a shared generative space, enabling bidirectional information exchange that facilitates mutual refinement between tasks and improves robustness via noise-conditioned multi-task training, while extending to streaming settings with TTM and ARS to achieve SOTA performance.

What carries the argument

The shared generative diffusion space in which perception outputs and planning trajectories are denoised together so that each task conditions and improves the other at every step.

If this is right

  • Perception mistakes get corrected during the joint denoising steps instead of being passed forward unchanged.
  • The same model can handle both tasks without separate networks or hand-off points.
  • Streaming operation becomes possible once the temporal transition module aligns noise schedules across frames.
  • Anchor refresh during training reduces the gap between training and test distributions in sparse trajectory prediction.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The joint diffusion approach could be tested on other paired vision tasks such as detection plus depth estimation to see if the refinement benefit generalizes.
  • If the shared space works, it reduces the need for separate perception pre-training stages in end-to-end driving stacks.
  • One could measure whether the bidirectional exchange actually occurs by tracking how much planning outputs change perception features at each denoising step.

Load-bearing premise

Placing perception and planning inside the same diffusion process will produce useful mutual refinement and robustness gains without creating new optimization problems that the noise-conditioned training cannot handle.

What would settle it

An ablation that replaces the shared diffusion space with independent perception and planning modules and measures whether planning accuracy drops more sharply when perception inputs are deliberately degraded.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.25736 by Bo Zhao, Erkang Cheng, Haibin Ling, Naifan Li, Xinting Zhao.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparison of existing paradigms for end-to-end autonomous driving. (a) Separate-Discriminative: separate perception and planning with discriminative mod￾eling for both tasks. (b) Unified-Discriminative: unified perception and planning with discriminative modeling for both tasks. (c) Separate-Generative: separate perception and planning with generative modeling for planning task only. (d) Unified-Generativ… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of UniTeD. UniTeD contains three core components: (a) Unified Diffu￾sion Decoder that models perception and planning queries through iterative denoising in a shared generative space; (b) Temporal Transition Module (TTM) that resolves the noise-level mismatch between historical and current frames; and (c) Anchor Re￾fresh Strategy that alleviates the training–inference distribution shift. historical… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Temporal Interaction. The core TTM enables a streaming unified diffusion framework by aligning historical queries with the current noising level. Qk, as their denoising time steps are sampled stochastically and independently. Addressing this issue, we implement a structured interaction pipeline: Input. The four inputs at the k-th frame with noise level tk are: • Queries Qk: joint noisy queries targeted for… view at source ↗
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Diffusion models have shown strong potential for multi-modal planning in end-to-end autonomous driving. However, most existing methods confine diffusion to the planning module, conditioning on fixed outputs from separate discriminative perception networks. This decoupled design propagates perception errors to the planner, increasing optimization difficulty and reducing robustness. To overcome these limitations, we propose UniTeD, a Unified Temporal Diffusion framework that jointly models perception and planning through iterative denoising in a shared generative space. By enabling bidirectional information exchange, the framework facilitates mutual refinement between tasks and improves robustness via noise-conditioned multi-task training. We further extend this unified diffusion paradigm to a streaming setting by incorporating temporal context. A Temporal Transition Module (TTM) is introduced to resolve the noise-level mismatch between historical and current frames. In addition, we propose an Anchor Refresh Strategy (ARS) to alleviate the training-inference distribution shift commonly observed in sparse diffusion-based end-to-end driving frameworks. Without bells and whistles, UniTeD achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks, surpassing both recent discriminative end-to-end methods and diffusion-based planning approaches.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes UniTeD, a Unified Temporal Diffusion framework for autonomous driving that jointly models perception and planning in a shared generative diffusion space. This design aims to enable bidirectional information exchange for mutual refinement between the tasks, with robustness gains from noise-conditioned multi-task training. The framework is extended to streaming settings using a Temporal Transition Module (TTM) to handle noise-level mismatch and an Anchor Refresh Strategy (ARS) to mitigate training-inference distribution shift, claiming state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks.

Significance. If the joint diffusion approach successfully achieves effective bidirectional refinement and robustness improvements, it would address a key limitation in current end-to-end driving methods where perception errors propagate to planning. The unified paradigm could lead to more integrated and robust autonomous driving systems. The streaming extensions demonstrate practical applicability.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that placing perception and planning in a shared generative space produces bidirectional information exchange and mutual refinement relies on 'noise-conditioned multi-task training' as the mechanism. However, the abstract provides no explicit description of cross-task conditioning, shared attention mechanisms, or gradient balancing terms that would enforce information exchange during denoising. Without such structure, the joint objective may not prevent error propagation, undermining the robustness claim.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: The SOTA performance claim is presented without reference to specific benchmarks, baselines, or quantitative improvements. Given that no experimental details, ablations, or error bars are mentioned, it is difficult to evaluate whether the gains are attributable to the unified framework or other factors.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The phrase 'Without bells and whistles' is used while simultaneously introducing TTM and ARS; clarify whether these modules are core to the unified framework or additional contributions.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on the abstract. We agree that greater explicitness would strengthen the summary and will revise the abstract accordingly to clarify mechanisms and results. The full manuscript provides the architectural and experimental details supporting the claims.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that placing perception and planning in a shared generative space produces bidirectional information exchange and mutual refinement relies on 'noise-conditioned multi-task training' as the mechanism. However, the abstract provides no explicit description of cross-task conditioning, shared attention mechanisms, or gradient balancing terms that would enforce information exchange during denoising. Without such structure, the joint objective may not prevent error propagation, undermining the robustness claim.

    Authors: The abstract is intentionally concise. Bidirectional exchange occurs because perception (e.g., object features) and planning (trajectories) are represented and denoised jointly in the same latent space; each denoising step updates both outputs using the shared network, allowing gradients from one task to influence the other. Noise-conditioned multi-task training applies the diffusion objective to both tasks across noise levels, which empirically balances their contributions without explicit gradient terms. The full paper (Section 3) details the shared U-Net backbone and joint loss. We will revise the abstract to briefly reference the joint iterative denoising process. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The SOTA performance claim is presented without reference to specific benchmarks, baselines, or quantitative improvements. Given that no experimental details, ablations, or error bars are mentioned, it is difficult to evaluate whether the gains are attributable to the unified framework or other factors.

    Authors: Abstract length constraints limit detail; the manuscript reports results on nuScenes and Waymo with comparisons to recent discriminative and diffusion baselines, including ablations on TTM/ARS and error bars. We will update the abstract to name the primary benchmarks and note the nature of the gains (e.g., consistent improvements on planning metrics). revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: architectural proposal remains independent of inputs

full rationale

The provided abstract and description introduce UniTeD as a new joint diffusion framework whose core mechanism (shared generative space enabling bidirectional refinement via noise-conditioned multi-task training) is presented as an architectural choice rather than a mathematical reduction. No equations appear that equate outputs to fitted parameters or prior self-defined quantities by construction, and no self-citations are invoked as load-bearing uniqueness theorems or ansatzes. The TTM and ARS extensions are described as additions for streaming and shift mitigation without reducing the central claim to self-referential definitions. This leaves the derivation self-contained against external benchmarks.

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