arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-07-09
WCog-VLA: A Dual-Level World-Cognitive Vision-Language-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Xuerun Yan, Zhexi Lian, Nuoheng Zhang, Shiyu Fang, Haoran Wang, Chen Lv, et al.
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have advanced end-to-end autonomous driving. However, existing methods either lack comprehensive world cognition or suffer from fragmented world foresight, inherently confining these models to reactive driving. To address this limitation, we pr…