TerraTransfer++: Demonstration-Free End-to-End Planner

No. 221 of 245 · arXiv · Zikang Xiong, Weixin Li, Zhouchonghao Wu et al. · published 23 Oct 2026, 04:00 UTC · first published 21 Oct 2026 · 72 min read

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TerraTransfer++ proposes training end-to-end autonomous driving policies without human demonstrations. A driving policy is first trained by multi-agent self-play in a vectorized simulator, then distilled into a trajectory teacher, and finally aligned to a frozen pretrained vision backbone through lightweight adapters.

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Score

0.56total under rubric v2.0

Significance0.58
Reader interest0.63
Audience breadth0.41
Practical relevance0.54
Substantiated0.72
Technical depth0.94
New information0.86
Counts against: Promotional0.09
Counts against: Overclaim0.51

Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).

Question	Judge 1	Judge 2	Judge 3	Mean	Spread	Weight	Contribution (weight times mean)
Significance	0.71	0.45	—	0.58	0.27	+0.25	+0.146
Reader interest	0.70	0.55	—	0.63	0.15	+0.20	+0.125
Audience breadth	0.42	0.40	—	0.41	0.02	+0.10	+0.041
Practical relevance	0.63	0.45	—	0.54	0.18	+0.15	+0.081
Substantiated	0.84	0.60	—	0.72	0.24	+0.10	+0.072
Technical depth	0.99	0.90	—	0.94	0.09	+0.10	+0.095
New information	0.92	0.80	—	0.86	0.12	+0.10	+0.086
Promotional	0.07	0.10	—	0.09	0.03	−0.15	−0.013
Overclaim	0.56	0.45	—	0.51	0.11	−0.15	−0.076
Sum of contributions							+0.556
Claim-check penalty							0.000
Total, as published							0.556

Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested. Judge 3 did not score this story; its mean uses the other two.

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