Sparse Planner: A Hybrid Planner for Efficient Sampling via a Conditional Variational Autoencoder

arXiv:2609.39570 · cs.RO · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Terminology

• Sparse Planner — 10× in this paper
• Latent Representation — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Space — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fast Iterative Search and Sampling — 2× in this paper
• Frenet Optimal Planner — 2× in this paper
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Interpretability — 2× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Contextual Understanding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium — 1× in this paper
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation — 1× in this paper
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Loss Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reconstruction Error — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Semantic Understanding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt — 1× in this paper
• Temporal consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Tokenization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Variational Bayes — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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