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DriveLLaVA: Human-Level Behavior Decisions via Vision Language Model.

Rui Zhao¹, Qirui Yuan¹, Jinyu Li¹

¹College of Automotive Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, China.

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|July 13, 2024

Summary

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This study introduces DriveLLaVA, a new method using visual language models (VLMs) for autonomous driving behavior decisions. DriveLLaVA improves generalization in complex scenarios, moving beyond rule-based limitations.

Keywords:

autonomous driving behavior decision instruction fine-tuning visual language model

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Area of Science:

Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Computer Vision

Background:

Autonomous driving aims for human-level performance, with behavior decision-making being crucial for navigating complex environments.
Current rule-based behavior decision systems lack generalization capabilities for unseen driving scenarios.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a novel behavior decision method for autonomous driving that utilizes the generalization and commonsense reasoning of visual language models (VLMs).
To enhance the transparency and interpretability of the autonomous driving decision process.

Main Methods:

Development of a novel instruction-following dataset comprising image-text instructions and driving behavior labels.
Fine-tuning a visual language model, DriveLLaVA, using the Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) technique on the custom dataset.
Evaluation through extensive experiments on a large-scale instruction-following dataset.

Main Results:

DriveLLaVA demonstrated superior performance in behavior decision-making compared to state-of-the-art methods.
The model effectively handles diverse and complex driving scenarios, showcasing strong robustness.
The approach leverages VLM capabilities for improved generalization in autonomous driving.

Conclusions:

The proposed DriveLLaVA method offers a significant advancement in autonomous driving behavior decision-making.
VLMs provide a promising direction for developing more adaptable and generalizable autonomous driving systems.
The use of LoRA efficiently optimizes model training and reduces computational costs.