ResearchResearch paperRobotics & Embodied AI · Reasoning & Planning1 source · Oct 8, 2026

PlanWAM: Planning-Shaped Future Representations for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

World models in end-to-end autonomous driving predict future scene evolution to provide foresight for trajectory planning.

Key points

  • To this end, we propose PlanWAM, a Planning-Shaped World Action Model.
  • We then introduce a privileged future posterior branch that observes ground-truth future frames, and shape its future latent representation with trajectory-planning objectives to obtain a planning-shaped future latent representation.
  • The predicted future latent representation serves as planning context and guides trajectory generation and selection.
  • Extensive experiments further demonstrate that planning-shaped future representations provide an effective and deployable form of foresight for world-action models.

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