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    "dek": "VITAL makes visually derived motion the main action target, then carries the remaining trajectory error in a small residual code.",
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    "body_text": "A future image can reveal the shape of a driving maneuver while still missing the exact trajectory needed for control. VITAL separates those scales: a motion scaffold comes from visual dynamics, and a compact residual records the metric error left behind. With one action-denoising step, the authors report 90.8 PDMS on NAVSIM v1 navtest—within 0.13 points of the ten-step result—at 3.29 times the end-to-end inference speed. Its NAVSIM v2 scores require no retraining. These are simulator-benchmark outcomes, not public-road validation.",
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