Yulong Cao | NVIDIA ASPIRE Group https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/author/yulong-cao/ Yulong Cao Wowchemy (https://wowchemy.com)en-usWed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/images/logo_hu2fe6632db44d28c9b9d53edd3914c1d6_112452_300x300_fit_lanczos_3.png Yulong Cao https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/author/yulong-cao/ SafeVL: Driving Safety Evaluation via Meticulous Reasoning in Vision Language Models https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/ma.cao.etal.arxiv2025/ Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/ma.cao.etal.arxiv2025/ 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/ Latent Chain-of-Thought World Modeling for End-to-End Driving https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/tan.chitta.etal.arxiv2025/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/tan.chitta.etal.arxiv2025/ Cocoon: Robust Multi-Modal Perception with Uncertainty-Aware Sensor Fusion https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/cho.cao.etal.iclr2025/ Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/cho.cao.etal.iclr2025/ Surprise Potential as a Measure of Interactivity in Driving Scenarios https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/ding.veer.etal.arxiv2025/ Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/ding.veer.etal.arxiv2025/ Gen-Drive: Enhancing Diffusion Generative Driving Policies with Reward Modeling and Reinforcement Learning Fine-tuning https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/huang.weng.etal.icra2025/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/huang.weng.etal.icra2025/ Promptable Closed-loop Traffic Simulation https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/tan.ivanovic.etal.corl2024/ Mon, 09 Sep 2024 17:59:15 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/tan.ivanovic.etal.corl2024/ Language-Image Models with 3D Understanding https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/cho.ivanovic.etal.iclr2025/ Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/cho.ivanovic.etal.iclr2025/ RealGen: Retrieval Augmented Generation for Controllable Traffic Scenarios https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/ding.cao.etal.arxiv23/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 00:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/ding.cao.etal.arxiv23/ Dolphins: Multimodal Language Model for Driving https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/ma.cao.etal.arxiv2023/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 01:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/ma.cao.etal.arxiv2023/ Language-Guided Traffic Simulation via Scene-Level Diffusion https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/zhong.rempe.etal.corl23/ Wed, 08 Nov 2023 09:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/zhong.rempe.etal.corl23/ Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback for Realistic Traffic Simulation https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/cao.ivanovic.etal.arxiv23/ Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/cao.ivanovic.etal.arxiv23/ Robust Trajectory Prediction against Adversarial Attacks https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/cao.xu.etal.corl2022/ Fri, 23 Sep 2022 10:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/cao.xu.etal.corl2022/ AdvDO: Realistic Adversarial Attacks for Trajectory Prediction https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/cao.xiao.etal.eccv2022/ Thu, 22 Sep 2022 10:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/cao.xiao.etal.eccv2022/