Gating Before Commitment: Anticipating Intent Divergence to Prevent Post-Interaction Decision Failures in Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2608.26074 · cs.RO, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-08-26

Updated: 2026-08-26

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to the 16th Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles (PPNIV) at IROS 2026. Supplementary video included as ancillary material

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Abstention — 14× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 9× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Hysteresis — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Digital Twin — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Formal Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multimodal Dataset — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• World Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• LanguageMPC: Large Language Models as Decision Makers for Autonomous Driving
• A Commute in Data: The comma2k19 Dataset

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