Sce2DriveX: A Generalized MLLM Framework for Scene-to-Drive Learning

End-to-end autonomous driving, which directly maps raw sensor inputs to low-level vehicle controls, is an crucial part of Embodied AI. Despite successes in applying Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for high-level traffic scene semantic understanding, it remains challenging to effectively translate these conceptual semantics understandings into low-level motion control commands and achieve cross-scene driving generalization and consensus. We propose Sce2DriveX, a human-like chain-of-thought (CoT) driving reasoning MLLM framework, designed to achieve progressive learning from multi-view scene understanding to behavior analysis, motion planning, and vehicle control driving process. Sce2DriveX utilizes multimodal joint learning of local scene videos and global Bird's Eye View (BEV) maps to deeply understand long-range spatiotemporal relationships and road topology, enhancing its 3D dynamic/static scene perception and reasoning capabilities and achieving cross-scene generalization. Meanwhile, it reconstructs the implicit cognitive chain inherent in human driving, further enhancing the consensus between autonomous driving and human thought. To improve model performance, we construct the first comprehensive Visual Question Answering (VQA) driving instruction dataset, which tailored for 3D spatial understanding and long-axis task reasoning, and introduce a task-oriented three-stage training pipeline to support supervised fine-tuning. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Sce2DriveX achieves state-of-the-art performance across tasks from scene understanding to end-to-end driving, as well as robust generalization in handling diverse driving scenes on the CARLA Bench2Drive benchmark.

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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
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2025-10-15
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https://doi.org/10.1109/lra.2025.3621971
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Machine Learning and Data Classification
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Abstract

End-to-end autonomous driving, which directly maps raw sensor inputs to low-level vehicle controls, is an crucial part of Embodied AI. Despite successes in applying Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for high-level traffic scene semantic understanding, it remains challenging to effectively translate these conceptual semantics understandings into low-level motion control commands and achieve cross-scene driving generalization and consensus. We propose Sce2DriveX, a human-like chain-of-thought (CoT) driving reasoning MLLM framework, designed to achieve progressive learning from multi-view scene understanding to behavior analysis, motion planning, and vehicle control driving process. Sce2DriveX utilizes multimodal joint learning of local scene videos and global Bird's Eye View (BEV) maps to deeply understand long-range spatiotemporal relationships and road topology, enhancing its 3D dynamic/static scene perception and reasoning capabilities and achieving cross-scene generalization. Meanwhile, it reconstructs the implicit cognitive chain inherent in human driving, further enhancing the consensus between autonomous driving and human thought. To improve model performance, we construct the first comprehensive Visual Question Answering (VQA) driving instruction dataset, which tailored for 3D spatial understanding and long-axis task reasoning, and introduce a task-oriented three-stage training pipeline to support supervised fine-tuning. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Sce2DriveX achieves state-of-the-art performance across tasks from scene understanding to end-to-end driving, as well as robust generalization in handling diverse driving scenes on the CARLA Bench2Drive benchmark.

IEEE Robotics and Automation LettersVol. 10(12)
Tokyo University of Technology (JP), Tokyo University of Science (JP), Jilin University (CN)
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