用结构化标签提升视觉语言模型速度,让自动驾驶更高效。
Structured Labeling Enables Faster Vision-Language Models for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
- 构建结构化数据集NuScenes-S,让语言描述更机器友好。
- 提出0.9B参数的FastDrive模型,决策准确率提升20%,推理速度快10倍。
- 适合关注自动驾驶模型轻量化与实时性的研究者和工程师。
视觉语言模型(VLMs)因其类人推理能力,在端到端自动驾驶中展现出巨大潜力。然而,现有VLMs与真实应用之间仍存在显著差距。主要问题在于,现有数据集的语言描述松散无序,难以被机器处理且易引入冗余;同时,大模型的高计算成本和庞大参数限制了推理速度与实际部署。为此,本文提出一个基于NuScenes数据集的结构化、简洁的基准数据集NuScenes-S,包含机器友好的结构化表示。此外,我们设计了参数量仅为0.9B的轻量级VLM基线模型FastDrive。相比参数超过7B且使用非结构化语言处理的现有模型(如LLaVA-1.5),FastDrive能理解结构化简明描述,并生成机器可执行的驾驶决策。大量实验表明,FastDrive在结构化数据集上表现优异,决策任务准确率提升约20%;同时,推理速度超越大规模基线模型,提速超10倍。消融实验进一步揭示场景标注(如天气、时间)对驾驶决策的重要性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offer a promising approach to end-to-end autonomous driving due to their human-like reasoning capabilities. However, troublesome gaps remains between current VLMs and real-world autonomous driving applications. One major limitation is that existing datasets with loosely formatted language descriptions are not machine-friendly and may introduce redundancy. Additionally, high computational cost and massive scale of VLMs hinder the inference speed and real-world deployment. To bridge the gap, this paper introduces a structured and concise benchmark dataset, NuScenes-S, which is derived from the NuScenes dataset and contains machine-friendly structured representations. Moreover, we present FastDrive, a compact VLM baseline with 0.9B parameters. In contrast to existing VLMs with over 7B parameters and unstructured language processing(e.g., LLaVA-1.5), FastDrive understands structured and concise descriptions and generates machine-friendly driving decisions with high efficiency. Extensive experiments show that FastDrive achieves competitive performance on structured dataset, with approximately 20% accuracy improvement on decision-making tasks, while surpassing massive parameter baseline in inference speed with over 10x speedup. Additionally, ablation studies further focus on the impact of scene annotations (e.g., weather, time of day) on decision-making tasks, demonstrating their importance on decision-making tasks in autonomous driving.
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