AI RESEARCH
UniDrive-WM: Unified Understanding, Planning and Generation World Model For Autonomous Driving
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2601.04453v3 Announce Type: replace World models have become central to autonomous driving, where accurate scene understanding and future prediction are crucial for safe control. Recent work has explored using vision-language models (VLMs) for planning, yet existing approaches typically treat perception, prediction, and planning as separate modules. We propose UniDrive-WM, a unified VLM-based world model that jointly performs driving-scene understanding, trajectory planning, and trajectory-conditioned future image generation within a single architecture.