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DiffAdapterVLA: Planner-Integrated Backbone for Driving VLMs
A new arXiv paper introduces DiffAdapterVLA, a method that folds continuous trajectory planning directly into the backbone of a pretrained driving vision-language model. The authors argue that while driving VLMs absorb rich visual, route, language and driving context, their training objectives stay disconnected from continuous planning, so prior work tends to bolt planning on separately. The approach targets native continuous trajectory generation rather than a detached planning head.