Building world models for autonomous driving: state representation trade-offs
abursuc · x · 2026-09-17
Key considerations for building AD world models: reconstruct pixels faithfully to run models inside without over-focusing on high-frequency details, and craft state representations around semantics, geometry, task predictability, or rich features distilled from DINO.
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