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arxiv: 2606.21165 · v1 · pith:YHLQGVQInew · submitted 2026-06-19 · 💻 cs.RO · cs.AI

OmniV2X: A Generative Foundation Planner for Efficient End-to-End Cooperative Driving

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keywords generative foundation modelcooperative drivingV2Xend-to-end planningtrajectory generationmulti-modal observationscross-attentionfoundation model adaptation
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OmniV2X is a generative foundation model for efficient end-to-end cooperative driving that adapts from single-agent pre-training using lightweight V2X tokens.

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This paper presents OmniV2X as a generative foundation planner for vehicle-to-everything cooperative driving. The model interprets independent context sequences of multi-modal and multi-agent observations directly, avoiding the need to fuse inputs into a shared representation. It is trained end-to-end with a trajectory generation loss that allows the high-capacity planner to learn steering and input leverage through cross-attention. Pre-trained on single-agent datasets, it adapts to cooperative settings with standard-compliant lightweight tokens. On the DAIR-V2X-Seq dataset, it achieves state-of-the-art results while using less than 10 percent of the fine-tuning data and less than 1 percent of the communication bandwidth compared to existing methods.

Core claim

OmniV2X directly interprets independent context sequences comprising multi-modal and multi-agent observations. For training, an end-to-end supervised pipeline uses a downstream trajectory generation loss in which a high-capacity generative sequence planner implicitly learns to steer the model and leverage multi-modal inputs via cross-attention injection. As a foundation model pre-trained on large-scale single-agent planning datasets, it efficiently adapts to cooperative environments by integrating the conditioning context with lightweight, standard-compliant V2X tokens, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the DAIR-V2X-Seq dataset with less than 10% of the fine-tune V2X dataset and less

What carries the argument

High-capacity generative sequence planner that implicitly steers the model via cross-attention injection in an end-to-end supervised pipeline using downstream trajectory generation loss

If this is right

  • Reduces computational cost of dense 3D perception by processing independent sequences.
  • Mitigates vulnerability to data scarcity in cooperative scenarios through foundation model adaptation.
  • Improves compliance with standardized messaging using lightweight V2X tokens.
  • Achieves better performance than existing end-to-end cooperative driving baselines.
  • Requires less than 10% of the fine-tune V2X dataset and less than 1% of the communication bandwidth.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The design could enable cooperative driving systems to scale with limited V2X deployment.
  • Pre-training on single-agent data might transfer to other multi-agent domains with similar token integration.
  • Lower bandwidth use could support larger numbers of agents in real-time cooperative planning.
  • End-to-end training might reduce the need for separate perception and planning modules in V2X systems.

Load-bearing premise

The high-capacity generative sequence planner can implicitly learn to steer the model and leverage multi-modal inputs via cross-attention injection to enable efficient adaptation from single-agent pre-training via lightweight V2X tokens.

What would settle it

Demonstrating that performance does not improve over baselines on DAIR-V2X-Seq when fine-tuned with less than 10% of the dataset and less than 1% bandwidth, or that removing the cross-attention injection prevents efficient adaptation.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.21165 by Can Cui, Juanwu Lu, Juntong Peng, Yaobin Chen, Yupeng Zhou, Ziran Wang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Top: Comparison among different paradigm in end￾to-end cooperative driving. Bottom: OmniV2X successfully provides low latency, low communication bandwidth, and a reasonable number of parameters. across sources. Therefore, it requires a disruptive paradigm shift to enable the effective use of multi-modal V2X inputs. To address these limitations, we propose shifting the focus of cooperative driving from rigi… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The OmniV2X architecture. All modalities are independently encoded and normalized, then concatenated into a unified context sequence, which is consumed by a generative planner via computationally efficient cross-attention. The model is first pretrained on a large-scale single-agent dataset and adapted to a smaller-scale V2X dataset. planning engine, optimized for the long-context conditions from different … view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Real-world demonstration of V2X cooperative driv [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Robustness to ego localization error. Thor) without quantization. In Fig. 3b, we demonstrate the flexible inference-time computation uniquely enabled by flow matching. An acceleration to a maximum of 29 FPS can be achieved without sacrificing much planning performance. E. System Robustness & V2X-Augmented Field Testing While open-loop metrics evaluate the method using stan￾dardized evaluation protocols, co… view at source ↗
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We present OmniV2X, a generative foundation model for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) cooperative driving. The model directly interprets independent context sequences comprising multi-modal and multi-agent observations. The new design mitigates the computational cost of dense 3D perception, the vulnerability to data scarcity in cooperative scenarios, and the poor compliance with standardized messaging in existing methods that fuse multi-modal inputs into a shared representation. For training, we present an end-to-end supervised pipeline using a downstream trajectory generation loss, in which a high-capacity generative sequence planner implicitly learns to steer the model and leverage multi-modal inputs via cross-attention injection. As a foundation model, we demonstrate that OmniV2X pre-trained on large-scale single-agent planning datasets can efficiently adapt to cooperative environments by integrating the conditioning context with lightweight, standard-compliant V2X tokens. Evaluated on the DAIR-V2X-Seq dataset, OmniV2X outperforms existing end-to-end cooperative driving baselines, achieving state-of-the-art performance with less than 10% of the fine-tune V2X dataset and less than 1% of the communication bandwidth. We conduct comprehensive evaluations to demonstrate its computational efficiency and robustness under real-world constraints.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces OmniV2X, a generative foundation model for end-to-end V2X cooperative driving. It processes independent multi-modal multi-agent context sequences via cross-attention injection in a high-capacity generative sequence planner trained with a downstream trajectory generation loss. Pre-trained on large-scale single-agent planning data, the model adapts to cooperative scenarios using lightweight standard-compliant V2X tokens. The central claim is that it achieves state-of-the-art performance on the DAIR-V2X-Seq dataset while using less than 10% of the fine-tune V2X dataset and less than 1% of the communication bandwidth, with additional claims of computational efficiency and robustness.

Significance. If the experimental claims hold, the work could be significant for cooperative autonomous driving by demonstrating efficient adaptation of foundation models to multi-agent V2X settings, potentially reducing data and bandwidth requirements compared to dense fusion approaches.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The assertion of outperforming 'existing end-to-end cooperative driving baselines' and achieving 'state-of-the-art performance' with quantified efficiency gains (<10% fine-tune data, <1% bandwidth) is presented without any supporting experimental details, baseline descriptions, metrics, dataset splits, error bars, or ablation results, rendering the central claim impossible to assess from the manuscript.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: The description of the 'end-to-end supervised pipeline' and 'implicit' learning via cross-attention and trajectory loss lacks any equations, architecture diagrams, or training procedure details that would allow verification of how the high-capacity planner steers multi-modal inputs or enables parameter-efficient adaptation.

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We thank the referee for the review and the opportunity to address these points. The abstract is intentionally concise, but the full manuscript provides the supporting details referenced in the comments. We respond to each major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The assertion of outperforming 'existing end-to-end cooperative driving baselines' and achieving 'state-of-the-art performance' with quantified efficiency gains (<10% fine-tune data, <1% bandwidth) is presented without any supporting experimental details, baseline descriptions, metrics, dataset splits, error bars, or ablation results, rendering the central claim impossible to assess from the manuscript.

    Authors: The abstract summarizes key results; the full manuscript contains a complete Experiments section (Section 4) with all requested elements: comparisons against end-to-end cooperative baselines on DAIR-V2X-Seq, metrics (ADE, FDE, collision rate), dataset splits and fine-tuning protocol, error bars from repeated runs, and ablations on data volume and bandwidth usage. These directly support the quantified claims of <10% fine-tune data and <1% bandwidth. The manuscript therefore allows full assessment of the central claim. revision: no

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The description of the 'end-to-end supervised pipeline' and 'implicit' learning via cross-attention and trajectory loss lacks any equations, architecture diagrams, or training procedure details that would allow verification of how the high-capacity planner steers multi-modal inputs or enables parameter-efficient adaptation.

    Authors: The abstract gives a high-level summary. The manuscript provides the requested details in the main body: architecture diagram (Figure 2), cross-attention equations (Eq. 4), trajectory generation loss (Eq. 5), end-to-end training procedure (Section 3.2), and pre-training plus lightweight V2X token adaptation (Section 3.3). These explain how the generative planner processes multi-modal inputs and enables efficient adaptation. This organization follows standard practice for abstracts. revision: no

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full rationale

The paper describes an empirical ML architecture and training pipeline for a generative planner, with claims resting on dataset evaluation rather than any mathematical derivation chain. No equations, first-principles results, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the provided text. The central claims concern model performance on DAIR-V2X-Seq and adaptation efficiency, which are externally falsifiable via standard benchmarks and do not reduce to self-definition or input renaming by construction.

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Abstract provides no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; assessment is limited to the high-level description given.

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