Causal Scene Narration: Inference-Time Text Restructuring for Vision-Language-Action Driving

arXiv:2604.01723 · cs.RO, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-04-02 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-04-02

Updated: 2026-10-19

Terminology

• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Causal Scene Narration — 2× in this paper
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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