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Alpamayo-R1: Bridging Reasoning and Action Prediction for Generalizable Autonomous Driving in the Long Tail

Connects driving reasoning and action prediction through Cosmos-Reason and a diffusion trajectory decoder, studying reasoning-action consistency.

Yan Wang et al.
2025-10-30 · NVIDIA · Research paper
Source checked: 2026-10-25Institution base · NVIDIA 🇺🇸 United States
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Why read this

Read reasoning, trajectory generation and vehicle evaluation together, distinguishing plausible explanations from reliable execution.

What it connects

The original R1 paper identifies Cosmos-Reason as its vision-language foundation and diffusion-based trajectory generation.

Original preprint; simulation and vehicle tests

This record pins the original R1 version, not later Alpamayo 1 updates. Simulation and road tests are not universal safety proof or regulatory certification.

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Citation

@misc{nvidia2025alpamayo,
  title = {Alpamayo-R1: Bridging Reasoning and Action Prediction for Generalizable Autonomous Driving in the Long Tail},
  author = {NVIDIA and : and Yan Wang and Wenjie Luo and Junjie Bai and Yulong Cao and Tong Che and Ke Chen and Yuxiao Chen and Jenna Diamond and Yifan Ding and Wenhao Ding and Liang Feng and Greg Heinrich and Jack Huang and Peter Karkus and Boyi Li and Pinyi Li and Tsung-Yi Lin and Dongran Liu and Ming-Yu Liu and Langechuan Liu and Zhijian Liu and Jason Lu and Yunxiang Mao and Pavlo Molchanov and Lindsey Pavao and Zhenghao Peng and Mike Ranzinger and Ed Schmerling and Shida Shen and Yunfei Shi and Sarah Tariq and Ran Tian and Tilman Wekel and Xinshuo Weng and Tianjun Xiao and Eric Yang and Xiaodong Yang and Yurong You and Xiaohui Zeng and Wenyuan Zhang and Boris Ivanovic and Marco Pavone},
  year = {2025},
  eprint = {2511.00088v1},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.RO},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00088v1}
}

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