UNIVERSE: Unified Video Action Models for Autonomous Driving with Flexible Mask-Modulated Modality Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05133v1
• Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:18:18 GMT
• Title: UNIVERSE: Unified Video Action Models for Autonomous Driving with Flexible Mask-Modulated Modality Generation
• Abstract summary: World Action Models (WAMs) have shown strong potential for improving action generalization in autonomous driving.<n>Existing cascaded or dual-DiT designs separate video imagination from action prediction.<n>We propose UNIVERSE, a unified video-action model built upon a single mask-modulated Transformer.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) have shown strong potential for improving action generalization in autonomous driving by using future video prediction as dense supervision for scene dynamics and temporal causality. However, it remains unclear which architecture better transfers video-modeling benefits to trajectory generation. Existing cascaded or dual-DiT designs separate video imagination from action prediction, weakening the transfer of video-learned world dynamics to the trajectory branch: the action model may still overfit dataset-specific driving priors, while the video model only indirectly regularizes planning. We propose UNIVERSE, a unified video-action model built upon a single mask-modulated Diffusion Transformer. By co-training future video latents and ego-trajectory tokens within shared generative parameters, UNIVERSE allows dense video supervision to directly shape trajectory denoising, leading to stronger cross-domain action generalization. To ensure causal validity and efficient deployment, we introduce a Modality-Decoupling Visibility Mask, which shares historical context across modalities while blocking mutual attention between future video and trajectory tokens. This prevents future-target leakage and enables trajectory-only inference by removing future-video denoising at test time, achieving a $4.3\times$ speedup over joint video-action rollout while maintaining comparable planning accuracy. The same model also supports video-only and joint video-action rollouts. Experiments show that UNIVERSE achieves 91.0 PDMS on NAVSIM (vs. 89.6 for the Two-DiT variant), and demonstrates strong zero-shot transfer to nuScenes and Bench2Drive without fine-tuning, while ablations confirm the importance of single-DiT unification, video co-training, and mask-based modality decoupling.

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