Persistent memory and reinforcement learning reduce drift in long driving simulations

A driving world model anchors road topology, scene appearance, and object identities with persistent tokens; online flow-matching RL restores visual quality across minute-long rollouts.

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Jiahao Cui · Jiaye Li · Wenhao Zhang · Yaoyi Li · Shan Luan · Quanhui Tang · +4 more

Fudan University · Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd

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Illustration: Persistent memory and reinforcement learning reduce drift in long driving simulations

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WAM-Sim uses persistent hierarchical memory and online flow-matching RL to generate consistent and realistic driving simulations over long horizons.

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When generating driving videos for long periods, AI models commonly make roads shift, cars change identity, and lose visual quality. This is because they lack a persistent memory of the scene.

WAM-Sim uses a structured memory that permanently stores road layout, background appearance, and each car's identity. Then it applies , after initial training, to improve the model's outputs by rewarding realistic and physically correct simulations.

Over minute-long simulations, WAM-Sim preserved scene similarity at 0.910 and identity coherence at 0.681, far better than previous methods. This enables realistic long-horizon driving simulation, essential for trustworthy autonomous vehicle testing.

How it works

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WAM-SIM: MEMORY AND ONLINE LEARNINGAnchors roadsand identitiesGeneratessequencesEvaluates generated scenesSupplies rewardfeedbackUpdates during post-trainingRuns after post-trainingPersistent memory: Structural, scene, instance tokensPersistent memoryStructural, scene,instance tokensDriving world model: Generates with memory contextDriving worldmodelGenerates with memorycontextGenerated driving scenes: Self-generated training rolloutsGenerated drivingscenesSelf-generated trainingrolloutsVisual and physical checks: Rewards aligned with memoryVisual andphysical checksRewards aligned withmemoryOnline RL post-training: Flow-matching reinforcementOnline RLpost-trainingFlow-matchingreinforcementLong driving simulation: Stable scenes and identitiesLong drivingsimulationStable scenes andidentitiesScene tokens are read-only; instance tokens are written once to preserve identities across occlusionsand…
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