arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-07-05
CritiqueDriveVLM: From Verifier-Guided Reinforcement Learning to Latent Thought Distillation for Autonomous Driving
Zhaohong Liu, Hao Ye, Xianlin Zhang, Mengshi Qi
End-to-end Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show immense potential in autonomous driving. However, standard Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) often suffers from reasoning hallucinations and conservative biases. While traditional tool-augmented frameworks and Chain-of-Thought (CoT) approa…