Outcome-Guided Distillation: A Teacher-Student Framework to Advance VLM Reasoning in Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2607.29052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving aims to learn a direct mapping from visual observations to control actions. However, these E2E models often act as black boxes and struggle with complex scenarios. To address this, recent works incorporate Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to provide explicit reasoning, enhancing both interpretability and driving robustness. These approaches typically rely on pre-generated annotations, which suffer from potentially f...