autonomous

Definition

Operating without step-by-step human control — deciding what to do next on its own. It covers self-driving vehicles and, increasingly, software agents given only a goal and left to plan, act, and correct. Autonomy is a spectrum rather than a binary, and most deployed systems are semi-autonomous, pausing for human approval at defined checkpoints; treat the word in a title as a direction of travel, not a guarantee.

Explainers using this term

• Paper walkthrough: Knowing When Not to Reuse — conditional experience transfer in autonomous post-training (BCIT)Knowing When Not to Reuse: Conditional Experience Transfer in Autonomous LLM Post-Training
• Paper walkthrough: Qwen-Drive-1.0 — bolting 3D perception and planning onto a VLM without touching its architectureQwen-Drive-1.0: An Initial Step towards a Vision-Language Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving
• Paper explained: DEFT-RLVR — show a driving VLM the future trajectory too early and it fabricates its reasoningDeferred Exposure of Future Trajectories for Verifiable Reasoning in Autonomous Driving VLMs