We present S2Planner, a trajectory planner that combines three front-facing cameras with ego-motion history and the current driving command. A fine-tuned DINOv3 backbone and a Spatial Tuning Adapter produce multi-scale image features; a coarse-to-fine decoder then uses trajectory self-attention and camera-projected cross-attention to refine candidate waypoints. The contribution is the integration of ego-conditioned trajectory initialization with iterative, geometry-guided sampling of multi-scale image features, rather than a new visual backbone or attention operator. On the NAVSIM v1 non-reactive evaluation, the previously reported navtest run obtained 88.03 PDMS. Because that run was selected using navtest performance, this number is exploratory and cannot be interpreted as an unbiased test estimate. Validation-selected evaluation on unexposed data, repeated runs, and computational measurements are needed to establish generalization and efficiency.
This publication proposes a definition and a classification of agile software development approaches and analyses ten software development methods that can be characterized as being "agile" against the defined criterion.
P. Abrahamsson, O. Salo, Jussi Ronkainen et al.· arXiv.org· 727 citations· ⚡54
The study shows that agile practices improve both informal and formal communication, but indicates that, in larger development situations involving multiple external stakeholders, a mismatch of adequate communication mechanisms can sometimes even hinder the communication.
M. Pikkarainen, Jukka Haikara, O. Salo et al.· Empirical Software Engineeri...· 401 citations· ⚡48
The results indicate that software engineering work practices are chosen opportunistically, adapted and configured to provide value under the constrains imposed by the startup context.
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The possibility of inferring high-dimensional data inference in a model that consists of a prior and an auxiliary differentiable constraint given some additional information is considered, thereby allowing a range of potential applications in adapting models to new domains and tasks.
Alexandros Graikos, Esmeralda S. Whitammer, N. Jojic et al.· Neural Information Processin...· 316 citations· ⚡15
Known for his clear and elegant writing style, Bertsekas shaped fields from control and optimization to large-scale computation and artificial intelligence.
