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X-Driver: Explainable Autonomous Driving with Vision-Language Models

8 May 2025arXiv:2505.05098archive 2025-07-28

Wei Liu, Jiyuan Zhang, Binxiong Zheng, Yufeng Hu, Yingzhan Lin, Zengfeng Zeng

End-to-end autonomous driving has advanced significantly, offering benefits such as system simplicity and stronger driving performance in both open-loop and closed-loop settings than conventional pipelines. However, existing frameworks still suffer from low success rates in closed-loop evaluations, highlighting their limitations in real-world deployment. In this paper, we introduce X-Driver, a unified multi-modal large language models(MLLMs) framework designed for closed-loop autonomous driving, leveraging Chain-of-Thought(CoT) and autoregressive modeling to enhance perception and decision-making. We validate X-Driver across multiple autonomous driving tasks using public benchmarks in CARLA simulation environment, including Bench2Drive[6]. Our experimental results demonstrate superior closed-loop performance, surpassing the current state-of-the-art(SOTA) while improving the interpretability of driving decisions. These findings underscore the importance of structured reasoning in end-to-end driving and establish X-Driver as a strong baseline for future research in closed-loop autonomous driving.

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Autonomous DrivingBench2DriveDecision Making

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Bench2Drive Bench2Drive X-Driver Driving Score 51.70 #22 of 35 Archive leaderboard report

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CARLAEntropy RegularizationPPO

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