Yuxiao Chen | NVIDIA ASPIRE Group https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/author/yuxiao-chen/ Yuxiao Chen 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 Yuxiao Chen https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/author/yuxiao-chen/ 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/ Towards Efficient and Effective Multi-Camera Encoding for End-to-End Driving https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/yang.chen.etal.arxiv2025/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:59:46 +0000 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/yang.chen.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/ 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/ Wolf: Dense Video Captioning with a World Summarization Framework https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/li.zhu.etal.tmlr2025/ Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/li.zhu.etal.tmlr2025/ 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/ DreamDrive: Generative 4D Scene Modeling from Street View Images https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/mao.li.etal.icra2025/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/mao.li.etal.icra2025/ 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/ 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/ Tokenize the World into Object-level Knowledge to Address Long-tail Events in Autonomous Driving https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/tian.li.etal.corl2024/ Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/tian.li.etal.corl2024/ Categorical Traffic Transformer: Interpretable and Diverse Behavior Prediction with Tokenized Latent https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/chen.tonkens.etal.arxiv2023/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/chen.tonkens.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/ 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/ Verification and Synthesis of Robust Control Barrier Functions: Multilevel Polynomial Optimization and Semidefinite Relaxation https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/kang.chen.etal.cdc2023/ Wed, 02 Aug 2023 10:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/kang.chen.etal.cdc2023/ Interpretable Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Vehicles via Counterfactual Responsibility https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/hsu.leung.etal.iros2023/ Tue, 01 Aug 2023 09:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/hsu.leung.etal.iros2023/ Refining Obstacle Perception Safety Zones via Maneuver-Based Decomposition https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/topan.chen.etal.iv2023/ Sun, 04 Jun 2023 10:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/topan.chen.etal.iv2023/ BITS: Bi-level Imitation for Traffic Simulation https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/xu.chen.etal.icra2023/ Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/xu.chen.etal.icra2023/ Guided Conditional Diffusion for Controllable Traffic Simulation https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/zhong.rempe.etal.icra2023/ Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/zhong.rempe.etal.icra2023/ Receding Horizon Planning with Rule Hierarchies for Autonomous Vehicles https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/veer.leung.etal.icra2023/ Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/veer.leung.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/ ScePT: Scene-consistent, Policy-based Trajectory Predictions for Planning https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/chen.ivanovic.etal.cvpr2022/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 10:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/chen.ivanovic.etal.cvpr2022/ Interaction-Dynamics-Aware Perception Zones for Obstacle Detection Safety Evaluation https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/topan.leung.etal.iv2022/ Sat, 23 Oct 2021 10:21:59 -0400 https://research.nvidia.com/labs/aspire/publication/topan.leung.etal.iv2022/