After finishing my papers for my PhD, I spent some time exploring new directions. I ended up working on Diffusion Language Models with @haoyuhe.bsky.social (he made it work 🚀), @yongcao.bsky.social, @andreasgeiger.bsky.social.

I learned a lot of new things and I am very excited about the results. 🥳

We have released the code for our work, CaRL: Learning Scalable Planning Policies with Simple Rewards.

The repository contains the first public code base for training RL agents with the CARLA leaderboard 2.0 and nuPlan.

github.com/autonomousvi...

📢Excited to present our poster "SimLingo" tomorrow at #CVPR2025. Drop by to talk about vision-language-action models, language-action grounding, or anything else :)

📍Saturday, 10:30 - 12:30 Poster #130

Project page: www.katrinrenz.de/simlingo/

Your personalized CVPR 25 @cvprconference.bsky.social conference programs are now available for you!
www.scholar-inbox.com/conference/c...

🚗 Pseudo-simulation combines the efficiency of open-loop and robustness of closed-loop evaluation. It uses real data + 3D Gaussian Splatting synthetic views to assess error recovery, achieving strong correlation with closed-loop simulations while requiring 6x less compute. arxiv.org/abs/2506.04218

📢 We have a PR[AI]RIE PhD position opening at Inria Paris co-advised with R. de Charette & @tuanhungvu.bsky.social
[please distribute]
💡Topic: Physics-Grounded Vision Foundation Models
⏳Application deadline: 20 May 2025
🗓️ Start date: Fall 2025
📝Detailed description: linked below

📣 Excited to share our #CVPR2025 Spotlight paper and my internship project @wayve: SimLingo.
A Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that achieves state-of-the-art driving performance with language capabilities.

Code: github.com/RenzKa/simli...
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.09594

📢 New paper CVPR 25!
Can meshes capture fuzzy geometry? Volumetric Surfaces uses adaptive textured shells to model hair, fur without the splatting / volume overhead. It’s fast, looks great, and runs in real time even on budget phones.
🔗 autonomousvision.github.io/volsurfs/
📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2409.02482

In my first research project I was super excited about getting any stars on GitHub. Now having a project with 1k stars feels unreal🤯 wouldn’t have been possible without the tremendous effort of @chonghaosima.bsky.social during the main project and afterwards with the challenge 🙏🏼

🆕 The CARLA Route Generator is a new Python application that provides a GUI for creating and editing routes, as well as defining scenarios within the CARLA simulator. It can also be used in conjunction with CARLA Leaderboard 2.0!
github.com/autonomousvi...

Come join us!

We have just released a new tool to create custom routes and insert scenarios for the CARLA Leaderboard 2.0. The tool was written by our great research assistant Jens. 🥳

Github: github.com/autonomousvi...

#CARLA #AutonomousDriving

Learning to Drive (L2D): the most exciting dataset release of the year by @hf.co & @yaak-ai.bsky.social
- 5K hours of driving data from 3 cameras
- lots of other synchronized data: GPU, IMU, CAN, actions, task descriptions
- 90TB of data
- LeRobot data formatting
huggingface.co/blog/lerobot...