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    Foundation Models in Autonomous Driving: A Survey on Scenario Generation and Scenario Analysis :car:

    This repository will collect research, implementations, and resources related to Foundation Models for Scenario Generation and Analysis in autonomous driving. The repository will be maintained by TUM-AVS (Professorship of Autonomous Vehicle Systems at Technical University of Munich) and will be continuously updated to track the latest work in the community.

    :fire: Updates

    • Aug. 2026 – Added 9 new papers on scenario generation* and 11 new papers on scenario analysis*.
    • Jul. 2026 – Added 4 new papers on scenario generation* and 14 new papers on scenario analysis*.
    • Jun. 2026 – Added 33 new papers on scenario analysis* (monthly backlog catch-up spanning Dec 2023 – Jun 2026).
    • May 2026 – Added 7 new papers on scenario generation* and 19 new papers on scenario analysis*.
    • Apr. 2026 – Added 5 new papers on scenario generation* and 13 new papers on scenario analysis*.
    • Mar. 2026 – Added 10 new papers on scenario generation* and 11 new papers on scenario analysis*.
    • Feb. 2026 – Added 4 new papers on scenario generation* and 19 new papers on scenario analysis*.
    • Jan. 2026 – 🎉 Our survey paper is accepted by IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems (OJ-ITS) and uploaded a new version to arXiv.
    • Dec. 2025 – Added 3 new papers on scenario generation* and 14 new papers on scenario analysis*. Added new columns: Hardware and Citation.
    • Nov. 2025 – Added 2 new papers on scenario analysis*. Added new section: Useful Resources and Links.
    • Uploaded new version to arXiv. Repository now categorizes 348 papers:
      • 93 on scenario generation
      • 56 on scenario analysis
      • 58 on datasets
      • 21 on simulators
      • 25 on benchmark challenges
      • 95 on other related topics (e.g., FMs' implementation)
    • Oct. 2025 – Added 17 new papers on scenario generation* and 2 new papers on scenario analysis*.
    • Sep. 2025 – Added 3 new papers on scenario generation* and 14 new papers on scenario analysis*.
    • Aug. 2025 – Added 4 new papers on scenario generation* and 4 new papers on scenario analysis*.
    • Jul. 2025 – Added 9 new papers on scenario generation* and 8 new papers on scenario analysis*.
    • Jun. 2025 – Released our paper on arXiv. Repository now categorizes 342 papers:
      • 93 on scenario generation
      • 54 on scenario analysis
      • 55 on datasets
      • 21 on simulators
      • 25 on benchmark challenges
      • 94 on other related topics
    • May 2025 – Repository initialized.

    🤝   Citation

    Please visit Foundation Models in Autonomous Driving: A Survey on Scenario Generation and Scenario Analysis for more details and comprehensive information. If you find our paper and repo helpful, please consider citing it as follows:

    @ARTICLE{11370877,
      author={Gao, Yuan and Piccinini, Mattia and Zhang, Yuchen and Wang, Dingrui and Moller, Korbinian and Brusnicki, Roberto and Zarrouki, Baha and Gambi, Alessio and Totz, Jan Frederik and Storms, Kai and Peters, Steven and Stocco, Andrea and Alrifaee, Bassam and Pavone, Marco and Betz, Johannes},
      journal={IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems}, 
      title={Foundation Models in Autonomous Driving: A Survey on Scenario Generation and Scenario Analysis}, 
      year={2026},
      volume={},
      number={},
      pages={1-1},
      keywords={Autonomous vehicles;Surveys;Foundation models;Scenario generation;Frequency modulation;Visualization;Reviews;Diffusion models;Adaptation models;Cognition;Autonomous vehicles;foundation model;scenario generation;scenario analysis;scenario based testing},
      doi={10.1109/OJITS.2026.3660686}}
    

    :page_with_curl: Introduction

    Foundation models are large-scale, pre-trained models that can be adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks. In the context of autonomous driving, foundation models offer a powerful approach to scenario generation and analysis, enabling more comprehensive and realistic testing, validation, and verification of autonomous driving systems. This repository aims to collect and organize research, tools, and resources in this important field.

    :chart_with_upwards_trend: Publication Timeline

    The following figure shows the evolution of foundation model research in autonomous driving scenario generation and analysis over time:

    :mag: Search Methodology

    The following list of keywords was used to search this survey's papers in the Google Scholar database. The keywords were entered either individually or in combination with other keywords in the list. The search was conducted until May 2025.

    Keywords:

    • Foundation Model Types: Foundation Models, Large Language Models (LLMs), Vision-Language Models (VLMs), Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), Diffusion Models (DMs), World Models (WMs), Generative Models (GMs)
    • Scenario Generation & Analysis: Scenario Generation, Scenario Simulation, Traffic Simulation, Scenario Testing, Scenario Understanding, Driving Scene Generation, Scene Reasoning, Risk Assessment, Safety-Critical Scenarios, Accident Prediction
    • Application Context: Autonomous Driving, Self-Driving Vehicles, AV Simulation, Driving Video Generation, Traffic Datasets, Closed-Loop Simulation, Safety Assurance

    🕒 Timeline of the Development of Foundation Models

    The figure illustrates the evolution of foundation models. LLMs (e.g., BERT, GPT) appear at the bottom, followed by VLMs built on visual FMs (e.g., ViT, CLIP) and instruction-tuned VLMs for interactive vision–language reasoning. MLLMs are shown at the top. In parallel, the progression of visual FMs is traced through Diffusion Models (DMs) and World Models (WMs). Highlighted entries mark key conceptual milestones.

    🌟 Large Language Models for Autonomous Driving

    PaperDateVenueCodeHardwareCitation
    TARGET: Automated Scenario Generation from Traffic Rules for Testing Autonomous Vehicles2023-05IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering-API&RTX409024
    Language Conditioned Traffic Generation2023-07CoRL 2023GitHubAPI98
    A Generative AI-driven Application: Use of Large Language Models for Traffic Scenario Generation2023-11ELECO 2023-API15
    ChatGPT-Based Scenario Engineer: A New Framework on Scenario Generation for Trajectory Prediction2024-02IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles--48
    Enhancing Autonomous Vehicle Training with Language Model Integration and Critical Scenario Generation2024-04arXivGitHubA600024
    LLMScenario: Large Language Model Driven Scenario Generation2024-05IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems-API69
    Automatic Generation Method for Autonomous Driving Simulation Scenarios Based on Large Language Model2024-05AIAT 2024-API2
    ChatScene: Knowledge-Enabled Safety-Critical Scenario Generation for Autonomous Vehicles2024-05CVPR 2024GitHubAPI113
    Editable scene simulation for autonomous driving via collaborative llm-agents2024-06CVPR 2024GitHubAPI130
    Chat2Scenario: Scenario Extraction From Dataset Through Utilization of Large Language Model2024-06IV 2024GitHub-15
    SoVAR: Building Generalizable Scenarios from Accident Reports for Autonomous Driving Testing2024-09ASE 2024-RTX407029
    LeGEND: A Top-Down Approach to Scenario Generation of Autonomous Driving Systems Assisted by Large Language Models2024-09ASE 2024GitHubRTX309032
    Traffic Scene Generation from Natural Language Description for Autonomous Vehicles with Large Language Model2024-09arXivGitHubAPI18
    Promptable Closed-loop Traffic Simulation2024-09CoRL 2024GitHubA10016
    Multimodal Large Language Model Driven Scenario Testing for Autonomous Vehicles2024-09Automotive Innovation--26
    LLM-Driven Testing for Autonomous Driving Scenarios2024-11FLLM 2024-API& T415
    ChatSUMO: Large Language Model for Automating Traffic Scenario Generation in Simulation of Urban MObility2024-11IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles-RTX409054
    Generating Out-Of-Distribution Scenarios Using Language Models2024-11arXiv-API13
    Generating Traffic Scenarios via In-Context Learning to Learn Better Motion Planner2024-12AAAI 2025 OralGitHubRTX 30903
    LLM-attacker: Enhancing Closed-loop Adversarial Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving with Large Language Models2025-01TITS 2025-RTX 400025
    ML-SceGen: A Multi-level Scenario Generation Framework2025-01arXiv-RTX 40900
    From Words to Collisions: LLM-Guided Evaluation and Adversarial Generation of Safety-Critical Driving Scenarios2025-02ITSC 2025GitHubAPI3
    CurricuVLM: Towards Safe Autonomous Driving via Personalized Safety-Critical Curriculum Learning with Vision-Language Models2025-02arXivGitHub-10
    Text2Scenario: Text-Driven Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving Test2025-03arXivGitHub-14
    Enhancing Autonomous Driving Safety with Collision Scenario Integration2025-03arXiv-8xV1006
    Seeking to Collide: Online Safety-Critical Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving with Retrieval Augmented Large Language Models2025-05ITSC 2025-API5
    From Failures to Fixes: LLM-Driven Scenario Repair for Self-Evolving Autonomous Driving2025-05arXiv-RTX40900
    AGENTS-LLM: Augmentative GENeration of Challenging Traffic Scenarios with an Agentic LLM Framework2025-07arXiv-API1
    LLM-based Realistic Safety-Critical Driving Video Generation2025-07arXiv-RTX40901
    Adversarial Generation and Collaborative Evolution of Safety-Critical Scenarios for Autonomous Vehicles2025-08arXivGitHub2xRTX40900
    LLM-based Human-like Traffic Simulation for Self-driving Tests2025-08arXiv-API& A8000
    Conversational Code Generation: a Case Study of Designing a Dialogue System for Generating Driving Scenarios for Testing Autonomous Vehicles2025-09GeCoIn 2025-A60003
    Txt2Sce: Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving System Testing Based on Textual Reports2025-09arXiv-RTX3070Ti1
    LLM‑Based Semantic Modeling & Cooperative Evolutionary Fuzzing2025-09APSEC 2025--0
    LinguaSim: Interactive Multi-Vehicle Testing Scenario Generation via Natural Language Instruction Based on Large Language Models2025-10IEEE ITSC 2025--0
    Learning from Risk: LLM-Guided Generation of Safety-Critical Scenarios with Prior Knowledge2025-11arXivGitHub-0
    AnchorDrive: LLM Scenario Rollout with Anchor-Guided Diffusion Regeneration for Safety-Critical Scenario Generation2026-03arXiv--0
    TRACE: Topology-aware Reconstruction of Accidents in CARLA for AV Evaluation2026-04FSE 2026GitHubAPI0
    Traffic Scenario Orchestration from Language via Constraint Satisfaction2026-05arXiv--0
    PCASim: Promptable Closed-loop Adversarial Simulation for Urban Traffic Environment2026-05arXivProject-0
    TrafficAlign: Aligning Large Language Models for Traffic Scenario Generation2026-06CVPR 2026GitHub-0
    REARL: A Closed-loop Autonomous Driving Simulation Enhancement Framework with Real Traffic Data and Large Language Models2026-09arXiv--0
    LLM-Guided Transformation of Non-Critical Driving Scenes into Safety-Critical Scenarios Using Augmented Reality2026-09arXiv--0
    SimSkill: A Self-Evolving LLM Agent for Skill and Knowledge Accumulation in Traffic Simulation2026-09arXivGitHubM1 Max & API0
    PlannerForge: LLM Agents for Scenario-Based Testing of Motion Planners in Autonomous Driving2026-09EMNLP 2026GitHubRTX5090 & API0
    PaperDateVenueCodeHardwareCitation
    Semantic Anomaly Detection with Large Language Models2023-09Autonomous Robots--131
    LaMPilot: An Open Benchmark Dataset for Autonomous Driving with Language Model Programs2023-12CVPR 2024GitHub-0
    Hybrid Reasoning Based on Large Language Models for Autonomous Car Driving2024-02arXivGitHub-0
    Reality Bites: Assessing the Realism of Driving Scenarios with Large Language Models2024-03IEEE/ACM First International Conference on AI Foundation Models and Software Engineering (Forge)GitHubAPI22
    Driving with LLMs: Fusing Object-Level Vector Modality for Explainable Autonomous Driving2024-05ICRA 2024GitHubAPI340
    Bench4Merge: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Merging in Realistic Dense Traffic with Micro-Interactive Vehicles2024-10arXivGitHub-0
    SenseRAG: Constructing Environmental Knowledge Bases with Proactive Querying for LLM-Based Autonomous Driving2025-012025 WACVW-API9
    From Words to Collisions: LLM-Guided Evaluation and Adversarial Generation of Safety-Critical Driving Scenarios2025-02ITSC 2025GitHubAPI3
    A Comprehensive LLM-powered Framework for Driving Intelligence Evaluation2025-03ICRA 2025GitHubAPI7
    Understanding Driving Risks using Large Language Models: Toward Elderly Driver Assessment2025-07arXiv--0
    Collision risk prediction and takeover requirements assessment based on radar-video integrated sensors data: A system framework based on LLM2025-08Accident Analysis & Prevention-API&RTX40907
    Evaluation of Large Language Models for Anomaly Detection in Autonomous Vehicles2025-09arXiv--0
    AgentDrive: An open benchmark suite for agentic AI reasoning in autonomous systems2026-01arXivGitHub-0
    LLM-MLFFN: Multi-Level Autonomous Driving Behavior Feature Fusion via Large Language Model2025-03arXiv--0
    Towards Lawful Autonomous Driving: Deriving Scenario-Aware Driving Requirements from Traffic Laws and Regulations2026-04arXiv--0
    SwarmDrive: Semantic V2V Coordination for Latency-Constrained Cooperative Autonomous Driving2026-04arXiv--0
    Pedestrian-Aware LLM-Driven Behavioral Planning for Autonomous Vehicles2026-05IEEE ITSC 2026--0
    AutoMine Solution for AV2 2026 Scenario Mining Challenge2026-06arXiv--0
    A knowledge-augmented dataset of high-risk driving scenarios with LLM annotations for autonomous driving2026-07arXivGitHub-0
    SAFARI: An Industrial Benchmark for LLM-Assisted Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment2026-09arXivGitHubAPI0

    🌟 Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving

    PaperDateVenueCodeHardwareCitation
    WEDGE: A multi-weather autonomous driving dataset built from generative vision-language models2023-05CVPR workshop 2023GitHubAPI63
    DriveGenVLM: Real-world Video Generation for Vision Language Model based Autonomous Driving2024-08IAVVC 2024-L413
    From Dashcam Videos to Driving Simulations: Stress Testing Automated Vehicles against Rare Events2024-11arXiv-API7
    From Accidents to Insights: Leveraging Multimodal Data for Scenario-Driven ADS Testing2025-02arXiv-API4
    CurricuVLM: Towards Safe Autonomous Driving via Personalized Safety-Critical Curriculum Learning with Vision-Language Models2025-02arXivGitHub-8
    CrashAgent: Crash Scenario Generation via Multi-modal Reasoning2025-05arXiv-API2
    SEAL: Vision-Language Model-Based Safe End-to-End Cooperative Autonomous Driving with Adaptive Long-Tail Modeling2025-07arXiv--0
    BENCH2ADVLM: A Closed-Loop Benchmark for Vision-language Models in Autonomous Driving2025-08arXiv-8×A8002
    Vision Language Model-based Testing of Industrial Autonomous Mobile Robots2025-08arXiv--1
    VLMasStrategist: Adaptive Generation of Safety-critical Testing Scenarios via Guided Diffusion2025-12arXiv--0
    Any2Critical: Safety-Critical Scenario Generation from Arbitrary Real-World Driving Contexts2026-03AAAI 2026GitHub-0
    CT-1: Vision-Language-Camera Models Transfer Spatial Reasoning Knowledge to Camera-Controllable Video Generation2026-04arXivGitHub-0
    Agent-driven Long-tail Simulation for Autonomous Driving2026-07arXivProject-0
    PaperDateVenueCodeHardwareCitation
    Unsupervised 3D Perception with 2D Vision-Language Distillation for Autonomous Driving2023-09ICCV 2023--49
    OpenAnnotate3D: Open-Vocabulary Auto-Labeling System for Multi-modal 3D Data2023-10ICRA 2024GitHubAPI&RTX409019
    On the Road with GPT-4V(ision): Early Explorations of Visual-Language Model on Autonomous Driving2023-11ICIL 2024 Workshop on Large Language Models for AgentsGitHub-105
    Talk2BEV: Language-enhanced Bird's-eye View Maps for Autonomous Driving2023-11ICRA 2024GitHubA100114
    LLM Multimodal Traffic Accident Forecasting2023-11Sensors 2023 MDPI--98
    NuScenes-MQA: Integrated Evaluation of Captions and QA for Autonomous Driving Datasets using Markup Annotations2024-01WACVW LLVM-AD 2024GitHub8xA10035
    Is it safe to cross? Interpretable Risk Assessment with GPT-4V for Safety-Aware Street Crossing2024-02UR 2024--22
    Multi-Frame, Lightweight & Efficient Vision-Language Models for Question Answering in Autonomous Driving2024-03VLADR 2024GitHubRTX 3090Ti&V10055
    Embodied Understanding of Driving Scenarios (ELM)2024-03ECCV 2024GitHub-0
    LATTE: A Real-time Lightweight Attention-based Traffic Accident Anticipation Engine2024-04Information Fusion (Elsevier)-RTX40803
    OmniDrive: A Holistic Vision-Language Dataset for Autonomous Driving with Counterfactual Reasoning2024-05CVPR 2025GitHub-47
    Hard Cases Detection in Motion Prediction by Vision-Language Foundation Models2024-05arXivGitHub-0
    Reason2Drive: Towards Interpretable and Chain-based Reasoning for Autonomous Driving2024-06ECCV 2024GitHub8xV100118
    ConnectGPT: Connect Large Language Models with Connected and Automated Vehicles2024-06IV 2024--21
    SimpleLLM4AD: An End-to-End Vision-Language Model with Graph Visual Question Answering for Autonomous Driving2024-07arXiv--14
    Large Language Models Powered Context-aware Motion Prediction in Autonomous Driving2024-07IROS 2024GitHubAPI13
    DriveGenVLM: Real-world Video Generation for Vision Language Model based Autonomous Driving2024-08IAVVC 2024-L413
    V2X-VLM: End-to-End V2X Cooperative Autonomous Driving Through Large Vision-Language Models2024-08arXiv-RTX409046
    Multi-Frame Vision-Language Model for Long-form Reasoning in Driver Behavior Analysis2024-08arXiv--0
    Think-Driver: From Driving-Scene Understanding to Decision-Making with Vision Language Models2024-09ECCV 2024 Workshop-4xRTX40904
    Can LVLMs Obtain a Driver's License? A Benchmark Towards Reliable AGI for Autonomous Driving2024-09AAAI 2025Project-0
    ContextVLM: Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Context Understanding for Autonomous Driving using Vision Language Models2024-09arXivGitHub-0
    Efficient Driving Behavior Narration and Reasoning on Edge Device Using Large Language Models2024-09arXiv--0
    VLM-Auto: VLM-based Autonomous Driving Assistant with Human-like Behavior and Understanding for Complex Road Scenes2024-10FLLM 2024GitHubRTX409041
    Visual Adversarial Attack on Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving2024-11arXiv-A80019
    Automated Evaluation of Large Vision-Language Models on Self-driving Corner Cases2024-12WACV 2025GitHub8xA80033
    SFF Rendering-Based Uncertainty Prediction using VisionLLM2024-12AAAI 2025 Workshop LM4Plan-A1003
    AutoTrust: Benchmarking Trustworthiness in Large Vision Language Models for Autonomous Driving2024-12arXivGitHub-0
    Are VLMs Ready for Autonomous Driving? An Empirical Study from the Reliability, Data, and Metric Perspectives2025-01ICCV 2025GitHub8xA80028
    Enhancing Large Vision Model in Street Scene Semantic Understanding through Leveraging Posterior Optimization Trajectory2025-01arXiv-2xRTX40907
    Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Scene Graphs for Traffic Accident Understanding2025-01IAVVC 2024--15
    DriveLM: Driving with Graph Visual Question Answering2025-01ECCV 2024GitHub8xV100473
    Scenario Understanding of Traffic Scenes Through Large Visual Language Models2025-01WACV 2025-A1007
    Application of Vision-Language Model to Pedestrian Behavior and Scene Understanding in Autonomous Driving2025-01arXiv--0
    INSIGHT: Enhancing Autonomous Driving Safety through Vision-Language Models on Context-Aware Hazard Detection and Edge Case Evaluation2025-02arXiv-A60008
    Evaluating Multimodal Vision-Language Model Prompting Strategies for Visual Question Answering in Road Scene Understanding2025-02WACV workshop 2025-RTX409014
    Vision-Integrated LLMs for Autonomous Driving Assistance: Human Performance Comparison and Trust Evaluation2025-02arXiv--0
    NuGrounding: A Multi-View 3D Visual Grounding Framework in Autonomous Driving2025-03arXiv--4
    Fine-Grained Evaluation of Large Vision-Language Models in Autonomous Driving2025-03ICCV 2025GitHub8xV10010
    AutoDrive-QA- Automated Generation of Multiple-Choice Questions for Autonomous Driving Datasets Using Large Vision-Language Models2025-03arXivGitHub3xA60004
    DriveLMM-o1: A Step-by-Step Reasoning Dataset and Large Multimodal Model for Driving Scenario Understanding2025-03arXivGitHub4xA600020
    ORION: A Holistic End-to-End Autonomous Driving Framework by Vision-Language Instructed Action Generation2025-03arXivGitHub32xA80050
    ChatBEV: A Visual Language Model that Understands BEV Maps2025-03arXiv--2
    Robusto-1 Dataset: Comparing Humans and VLMs on real out-of-distribution Autonomous Driving VQA from Peru2025-03arXivGitHubA100&API2
    Evaluation of Safety Cognition Capability in Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving2025-03arXiv--0
    ST-VLM: Kinematic Instruction Tuning for Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in Vision-Language Models2025-03arXivProject-0
    Retrieval-Based Interleaved Visual Chain-of-Thought in Real-World Driving Scenarios2025-04arXivGitHub4xA1006
    ReasonDrive: Efficient Visual Question Answering for Autonomous Vehicles with Reasoning-Enhanced Small Vision-Language Models2025-04arXivGitHub-0
    Vision Foundation Model Embedding-Based Semantic Anomaly Detection2025-05ICRA 2025 Workshop--3
    OpenLKA: An Open Dataset of Lane Keeping Assist from Recent Car Models under Real-world Driving Conditions2025-05arXivGitHub-3
    SURDS: Benchmarking Spatial Understanding and Reasoning in Driving Scenarios with Vision Language Models2025-05NeurIPS 2025GitHub8xA8006
    Extending Large Vision-Language Model for Diverse Interactive Tasks in Autonomous Driving2025-05arXivGitHub8xA8005
    Bridging Human Oversight and Black-box Driver Assistance: Vision-Language Models for Predictive Alerting in Lane Keeping Assist systems2025-05arXiv--3
    AgentThink: A Unified Framework for Tool-Augmented Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving2025-05EMNLP Findings 2025GitHub-0
    FutureSightDrive: Thinking Visually with Spatio-Temporal CoT for Autonomous Driving2025-06NeurIPS 2025-8xA600065
    Case-based Reasoning Augmented Large Language Model Framework for Decision Making in Realistic Safety-Critical Driving Scenarios2025-06arXiv-API1
    Structured Labeling Enables Faster Vision-Language Models for End-to-End Autonomous Driving2025-06arXiv-8xRTX40902
    DriveAction: A Benchmark for Exploring Human-like Driving Decisions in VLA Models2025-06arXivDataset-0
    Box-QAymo: Box-Referring VQA Dataset for Autonomous Driving2025-07arXivGitHub-0
    DriveMRP: Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Synthetic Motion Data for Motion Risk Prediction2025-07arXivGitHub8xH1000
    SafeDriveRAG: Towards Safe Autonomous Driving with Knowledge Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation2025-07ACMMM 2025GitHub-3
    DRAMA-X: A Fine-grained Intent Prediction and Risk Reasoning Benchmark For Driving2025-08arXivGitHub-2
    NuRisk: A Visual Question Answering Dataset for Agent-Level Risk Assessment in Autonomous Driving2025-09ICRA-API&RTX50901
    DriveAgent-R1: Advancing VLM-based Autonomous Driving with Active Perception and Hybrid Thinking2025-09arXiv-API&8xH201
    Enhancing Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving through Task-Specific Prompting and Spatial Reasoning2025-09IROS 2025 RoboSenseGitHubAPI0
    Are VLMs Ready for Lane Topology Awareness in Autonomous Driving?2025-09arXiv--0
    More Than Meets the Eye? Uncovering the Reasoning-Planning Disconnect in Training Vision-Language Driving Models2025-10arXiv--0
    STRIDE-QA: Visual Question Answering Dataset for Spatiotemporal Reasoning in Urban Driving Scenes2025-10AAAI 2026GitHub16xH1003
    VLR-Driver: Large Vision-Language-Reasoning Models for Embodied Autonomous Driving2025-10ICCV 2025--0
    Hierarchical Reasoning with Vision-Language Models for Incident Reports from Dashcam Videos2025-10arXivGitHub-0
    WaymoQA: A Multi-View Visual Question Answering Dataset for Safety-Critical Reasoning in Autonomous Driving2025-11arXiv-8xA60000
    A TOOL FOR BENCHMARKING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS’ ROBUSTNESS IN ASSESSING THE REALISM OF DRIVING SCENARIOS2025-11arXiv-API0
    V2X-VLM: End-to-End V2X Cooperative Autonomous Driving Through Large Vision-Language Models2025-11arXiv-RTX 409049
    RoadBench: Benchmarking MLLMs on Fine-Grained Spatial Understanding and Reasoning under Urban Road Scenarios2025-11arXivGitHub-0
    Is Your VLM for Autonomous Driving Safety-Ready? A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating External and In-Cabin Risks2025-11arXiv--0
    Toward Automatic Safe Driving Instruction: A Large-Scale Vision Language Model Approach2025-11arXiv--0
    RoadSceneVQA: Benchmarking Visual Question Answering in Roadside Perception Systems for Intelligent Transportation System2025-12arXivGitHub4xA1000
    OmniDrive-R1: Reinforcement-driven Interleaved Multi-modal Chain-of-Thought for Trustworthy Vision-Language Autonomous Driving2025-12arXiv-16xA8000
    Counterfactual VLA: Self-Reflective Vision-Language-Action Model with Adaptive Reasoning2025-12CVPR 2026--0
    Semantic-Drive: Democratizing Long-Tail Data Curation via Open-Vocabulary Grounding and Neuro-Symbolic VLM Consensus2025-12arXivGitHub-0
    Vision-Based Natural Language Scene Understanding for Autonomous Driving: An Extended Dataset and a New Model for Traffic Scene Description Generation2026-01arXiv-A1000
    AutoDriDM: An Explainable Benchmark for Decision-Making of Vision-Language Models in Autonomous Driving2026-01arXiv-A1000
    ScenePilot-Bench: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Evaluation of Vision-Language Models in Autonomous Driving 2026-01arXivGitHub4xA8000
    Vision and Language: Novel Representations and Artificial intelligence for Driving Scene Safety Assessment and Autonomous Vehicle Planning2026-02arXiv--0
    DRIV-EX: Counterfactual Explanations for Driving LLMs2026-02arXiv-20xA1000
    DriveCombo: Benchmarking Compositional Traffic Rule Reasoning in Autonomous Driving2026-03arXiv--0
    DriveCode: Domain Specific Numerical Encoding for LLM-Based Autonomous Driving2026-03arXiv-8xH1000
    Probing Visual Concepts in Lightweight Vision-Language Models for Automated Driving2026-03arXivGitHub-0
    BEVLM: Distilling Semantic Knowledge from LLMs into Bird’s-Eye View Representations2026-03arXiv-8xH1000
    Perception-Aware Multimodal Spatial Reasoning from Monocular Images2026-03arXiv-8xH1000
    Comparative Analysis of Patch Attack on VLM-Based Autonomous Driving Architectures2026-03arXivIV 2025-0
    More than the Sum: Panorama-Language Models for Adverse Omni-Scenes2026-03CVPR2026-https://github.com/InSAI-Lab/PanoVQA0
    Probing the Reliability of Driving VLMs: From Inconsistent Responses to Grounded Temporal Reasoning2026-03arXiv-4xA1000
    Are Video Reasoning Models Ready to Go Outside?2026-03arXivGitHub4xA1000
    WorldVLM: Combining World Model Forecasting and Vision-Language Reasoning2026-03arXiv-4xA400
    VLM-AutoDrive: Post-Training Vision-Language Models for Safety-Critical Autonomous Driving Events2026-03arXiv-32xH1000
    KLDrive: Fine-Grained 3D Scene Reasoning for Autonomous Driving based on Knowledge Graph2026-03arXiv-A60000
    DRIVINGVQA: A Dataset for Interleaved Visual Chain-of-Thought in Real-World Driving Scenarios2026-03ECAL 2026GitHub4xA1000
    3DCity-LLM: Empowering Multi-modality Large Language Models for 3D City-scale Perception and Understanding2026-03arXivGitHubA1000
    Collision-Aware Vision-Language Learning for End-to-End Driving with Multimodal Infraction Datasets2026-03arXiv--0
    Dual-Stage LLM Framework for Scenario-Centric Semantic Interpretation in Driving Assistance2026-03arXiv--0
    A Semantic Observer Layer for Autonomous Vehicles: Pre-Deployment Feasibility Study of VLMs for Low-Latency Anomaly Detection2026-03arXiv-50900
    How Well Do Vision-Language Models Understand Sequential Driving Scenes? A Sensitivity Study (VENUSS)2026-04arXiv-API0
    BATON: A Multimodal Benchmark for Bidirectional Automation Transition Observation in Naturalistic Driving2026-04arXiv-API0
    CrashSight: A Phase-Aware, Infrastructure-Centric Video Benchmark for Traffic Crash Scene Understanding and Reasoning2026-04arXiv-8xA1000
    VAGNet: Vision-based Accident Anticipation with Global Features2026-04arXiv-RTX40900
    SignReasoner: Compositional Reasoning for Complex Traffic Sign Understanding via Functional Structure Units2026-04arXiv-4xH1000
    CCTVBench: Contrastive Consistency Traffic VideoQA Benchmark for Multimodal LLMs2026-04arXiv-API0
    Towards Safe Mobility: A Unified Transportation Foundation Model enabled by Open-Ended Vision-Language Dataset (UniVLT / LTD)2026-04arXiv-8xH1000
    EgoDyn-Bench: Evaluating Ego-Motion Understanding in Vision-Centric Foundation Models for Autonomous Driving2026-04arXiv-API0
    Zoom In, Reason Out: Efficient Far-field Anomaly Detection in Expressway Surveillance Videos via Focused VLM Reasoning Guided by Bayesian Inference (VIBES)2026-04arXiv-RTX40900
    VLM-VPI: A Vision-Language Reasoning Framework for Improving Automated Vehicle-Pedestrian Interactions2026-04arXiv-API0
    HiDrive: A Closed-Loop Benchmark for High-Level Autonomous Driving2026-05arXivGitHub-0
    Bench2Drive-VL: Benchmarks for Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving with Vision-Language Models2026-04arXivGitHub-0
    Bridging Structure and Language: Graph-Based Visual Reasoning for Autonomous Road Understanding2026-05arXiv--0
    C-CoT: Counterfactual Chain-of-Thought with Vision-Language Models for Safe Autonomous Driving2026-05arXiv--0
    D2-V2X: Depth-Driven Cooperative V2X Reasoning for Autonomous Driving2026-05arXivGitHub-0
    DRIVESPATIAL: A Benchmark for Spatiotemporal Intelligence in VLMs for Autonomous Driving2026-05NeurIPS 2026Project-0
    PEDESTRIANQA: A Benchmark for Vision-Language Models on Pedestrian Intention and Trajectory Prediction2026-05arXivGitHub-0
    ReasonBreak: Probing Vulnerabilities in Reasoning-Enabled Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving2026-05arXiv--0
    Two-Pass Zero-Shot Temporal-Spatial Grounding of Rare Traffic Events in Surveillance Video2026-05arXiv--0
    nuReasoning: A Reasoning-Centric Dataset and Benchmark for Long-Tail Autonomous Driving2026-05arXivProject-0
    Vision-Language Work Zone Intelligence for Safety-Critical Speed Regulation of Mixed-Autonomy Vehicles in Dynamic Environments2026-06arXivGitHub-0
    Multi-Stage VLM Pipeline for Zero-Shot Traffic Accident Understanding2026-05arXivGitHub-0
    DriveJudge: Rethinking Autonomous Driving Evaluation with Vision-Language Models2026-06arXiv--0
    GeoDrive-Bench: Benchmarking Region-Specific Multimodal Reasoning in Autonomous Driving2026-06arXivGitHub-0
    Metadata-Aware Multi-Prompt Reasoning for Zero-Shot Accident Understanding2026-06arXiv--0
    Robusto-2: Benchmarking Humans & VLMs for Autonomous Driving in Lima & New York City2026-06arXiv--0
    AUTOPILOT VQA: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Incident-Centric Dashcam Understanding2026-07arXiv--0
    DispatchRAG: Grounding Emergency Dispatch Decisions in Real-World Protocols from Traffic Accident Video2026-07arXiv--0
    Reasoning to Regulate: Chain-of-Thought for Traffic Rule Understanding2026-07arXiv--0
    CAViAR: A Causal Video Dataset for Fine-Grained Accident Reasoning in Real-World Scenarios2026-08arXivGitHub-0
    Observe Before You Alert: Adaptive Driver Alerting with Vision-Language Models2026-09arXiv-RTX50900
    CrossView: Can Vision-Language Models Reason Across Cameras?2026-08arXivGitHubAPI0
    SIREN-Bench: Behavior-Driven Generation and Evaluation of Emergency-Vehicle Interactions2026-08arXiv-V100S0

    🌟 Multimodal Large Language Models for Autonomous Driving

    PaperDateVenueCodeHardwareCitation
    Realistic Corner Case Generation for Autonomous Vehicles with Multimodal Large Language Model2024-11Tsinghua Science and Technology-API&RTX309012
    LMM-enhanced Safety-Critical Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving System Testing From Non-Accident Traffic Videos2025-01arXivGitHubRTX20806
    Multi-modal Traffic Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving System Testing2025-06FSE 2025-API1
    Talk2Traffic: Interactive and Editable Traffic Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving with Multimodal Large Language Model2025-06CVPR 2025 WDFM-ADGitHub-3

    | OmniTraffic: A Controllable Generation Pipeline and Benchmark for Spatio-Temporal Traffic Reasoning | 2026-06 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |

    PaperDateVenueCodeHardwareCitation
    DriveGPT4: Interpretable End-to-end Autonomous Driving via Large Language Model2023-10IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2024GitHub-615
    Dolphins: Multimodal Language Model for Driving2023-12ECCV 2024GitHub4xA100139
    AccidentGPT: Accident analysis and prevention from V2X Environmental Perception with Multi-modal Large Model2023-12IV 2024GitHub-45
    Lidar-llm: Exploring the potential of large language models for 3d lidar understanding2023-12AAAI 2025GitHubA100125
    LingoQA: Visual Question Answering for Autonomous Driving2023-12ECCV 2024GitHub8xA100143
    Holistic Autonomous Driving Understanding by Bird's-Eye-View Injected Multi-Modal Large Models2024-01CVPR 2024GitHub-106
    MAPLM: A Real-World Large-Scale Vision-Language Benchmark for Map and Traffic Scene Understanding2024-01CVPR 2024GitHub8xV100&2xA10065
    Probing Multimodal LLMs as World Models for Driving2024-05arXiv--0
    WTS: A Pedestrian-Centric Traffic Video Dataset for Fine-Grained Spatial-Temporal Understanding2024-06ECCV 2024GitHub-19
    Semantic Understanding of Traffic Scenes with Large Vision Language Models2024-06IV 2024GitHubAPI27
    VLAAD: Vision and Language Assistant for Autonomous Driving2024-06WACVW 2024GitHub-52
    InternDrive: A Multimodal Large Language Model for Autonomous Driving Scenario Understanding2024-07AIAHPC 2024-API4
    WOMD-Reasoning: A Large-Scale Dataset for Interaction Reasoning in Driving2024-07ICML 2025GitHub-0
    Using Multimodal Large Language Models for Automated Detection of Traffic Safety Critical Events2024-09Vehicles 2024 MDPI-API10
    MLLM-SUL: Multimodal Large Language Model for Semantic Scene Understanding and Localization in Traffic Scenarios2024-12arXivGitHubA8007
    Application of Multimodal Large Language Models in Autonomous Driving2024-12arXiv--0
    Distilling Multi-modal Large Language Models for Autonomous Driving2025-01CVPR 2025--23
    TB-Bench: Training and Testing Multi-Modal AI for Understanding Spatio-Temporal Traffic Behaviors from Dashcam Images/Videos2025-01arXivGitHub-0
    TUMTraffic-VideoQA: A Benchmark for Unified Spatio-Temporal Video Understanding in Traffic Scenes2025-02ICML 2025GitHub4xA10013
    ScVLM: Enhancing Vision-Language Model for Safety-Critical Event Understanding2025-02WACV Workshop 2025GitHub2xA1008
    Sce2DriveX: A Generalized MLLM Framework for Scene-to-Drive Learning2025-02IEEE RAL-8xL2018
    A Framework for a Capability-driven Evaluation of Scenario Understanding for Multimodal Large Language Models in Autonomous Driving2025-03arXiv--1
    HiLM-D: Enhancing MLLMs with Multi-Scale High-Resolution Details for Autonomous Driving2025-03International Journal of Computer Vision-8xV10068
    NuPlanQA: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Multi-View Driving Scene Understanding in Multi-Modal Large Language Models2025-03ICCV 2025GitHub-8
    Tracking Meets Large Multimodal Models for Driving Scenario Understanding2025-03arXivGitHub2xA60004
    SimLingo: Vision-Only Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving with Language-Action Alignment2025-03CVPR 2025GitHub8xA10034
    V3LMA: Visual 3D-enhanced Language Model for Autonomous Driving2025-04CVPR DriveX 2025GitHubH1003
    Are Vision LLMs Road-Ready? A Comprehensive Benchmark for Safety-Critical Driving Video Understanding2025-04arXivGitHub-7
    V2V-LLM: Vehicle-to-Vehicle Cooperative Autonomous Driving with Multi-Modal Large Language Models2025-04arXivGitHub8xA10022
    ALN-P3: Unified Language Alignment for Perception, Prediction, and Planning in Autonomous Driving2025-05arXiv-2xH2003
    DriveSOTIF: Advancing SOTIF Through Multimodal Large Language Models2025-05arXivGitHub-0
    X-Driver: Explainable Autonomous Driving with Vision-Language Models2025-06arXiv--5
    STSBench: A Spatio-temporal Scenario Benchmark for Multi-modal Large Language Models in Autonomous Driving2025-06NeurIPS 2025GitHub-2
    SafePLUG: Empowering Multimodal LLMs with Pixel-Level Insight and Temporal Grounding for Traffic Accident Understanding2025-08arXiv-8xA1002
    RoboTron-Drive: All-in-One Large Multimodal Model for Autonomous Driving2025-08ICCV2025GitHub32xA1009
    Passing the Driving Knowledge Test (DriveQA)2025-08ICCV 2025--0
    EMMA: End-to-End Multimodal Model for Autonomous Driving2025-09TMLR--161
    Investigating Traffic Accident Detection Using Multimodal Large Language Models2025-09IAVVC 2025--1
    AccidentBench: Benchmarking Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning in Vehicle Accidents and Beyond2025-09arXivGitHub-0