PrismAD: Decoupled Planning via Semantic Mixture-of-Planners for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
This work addresses the limitations of existing end-to-end autonomous driving planners, which couple heterogeneous scene information into a unified representation space, thereby hindering specialized modeling of critical factors such as agent interactions, road geometry, and driving intent. To overcome this, the authors propose PrismAD, a novel semantic-driven decoupled planning framework. PrismAD introduces a semantic mixture planner that decomposes inputs into three distinct semantic groups—interaction, geometry, and intent—each processed by dedicated expert networks with disjoint parameters. A semantic-aware router then adaptively fuses these outputs using sparse Top-K activation combined with a noisy gating mechanism. This design enhances routing robustness while reducing computational overhead, achieving competitive performance on both the nuScenes open-loop dataset and the NeuroNCAP closed-loop benchmark.