Peter Karkus | NVIDIA ASPIRE Group https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/author/peter-karkus/ Peter Karkus Wowchemy (https://wowchemy.com)en-usTue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/images/logo_hu2fe6632db44d28c9b9d53edd3914c1d6_112452_300x300_fit_lanczos_3.png Peter Karkus https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/author/peter-karkus/ Alpamayo-R1: Bridging Reasoning and Action Prediction for Generalizable Autonomous Driving in the Long Tail https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/wang.luo.etal.arxiv2025/ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/wang.luo.etal.arxiv2025/ Beyond Behavior Cloning in Autonomous Driving: a Survey of Closed-Loop Training Techniques https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/karkus.igl.etal.pami2025/ Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/karkus.igl.etal.pami2025/ RoaD: Rollouts as Demonstrations for Closed-Loop Supervised Fine-Tuning of Autonomous Driving Policies https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/garciacobo.igl.etal.arxiv2025/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:52:03 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/garciacobo.igl.etal.arxiv2025/ Closed-Loop Supervised Fine-Tuning of Tokenized Traffic Models https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/zhang.karkus.etal.cvpr2025/ Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/zhang.karkus.etal.cvpr2025/ STORM: Spatio-Temporal Reconstruction Model for Large-Scale Outdoor Scenes https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/yang.huang.etal.iclr2025/ Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/yang.huang.etal.iclr2025/ Learning Multiple Initial Solutions to Optimization Problems https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/sharony.yang.etal.arxiv24/ Mon, 04 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/sharony.yang.etal.arxiv24/ DistillNeRF: Perceiving 3D Scenes from Single-Glance Images by Distilling Neural Fields and Foundation Model Features https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/wang.kim.etat.neurips2024/ Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/wang.kim.etat.neurips2024/ LoRD: Adapting Differentiable Driving Policies to Distribution Shifts https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/diehl.karkus.etal.icra2025/ Sun, 13 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/diehl.karkus.etal.icra2025/ System-Level Analysis of Module Uncertainty Quantification in the Autonomy Pipeline https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/deglurkar.shen.etal.cdc2024/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/deglurkar.shen.etal.cdc2024/ Partial-View Object View Synthesis via Filtered Inversion https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/sun.tremblay.etal.3dv2024/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 07:59:00 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/sun.tremblay.etal.3dv2024/ DTPP: Differentiable Joint Conditional Prediction and Cost Evaluation for Tree Policy Planning in Autonomous Driving https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/huang.karkus.etal.arxiv2023/ Mon, 30 Oct 2023 10:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/huang.karkus.etal.arxiv2023/ Interactive Joint Planning for Autonomous Vehicles https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/chen.veer.etal.arxiv23/ Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/chen.veer.etal.arxiv23/ Planning with Occluded Traffic Agents using Bi-Level Variational Occlusion Models https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/christianos.karkus.etal.icra2023/ Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/christianos.karkus.etal.icra2023/ Tree-structured Policy Planning with Learned Behavior Models https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/chen.karkus.etal.icra2023/ Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/chen.karkus.etal.icra2023/ DiffStack: A Differentiable and Modular Control Stack for Autonomous Vehicles https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/karkus.ivanovic.etal.corl2022/ Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/karkus.ivanovic.etal.corl2022/