Current autonomous vehicles are typically deployed within limited geographic regions, while scalable operation across diverse locations is increasingly demanded. As deployment regions expand, planners must cope with heterogeneous traffic dynamics under fixed on-board computational and memory budgets, where adapting a single monolithic model through data aggregation or parameter expansion becomes inefficient and costly. This paper proposes the Dynamically Local-Enhancement (DLE) planner, which improves region-level adaptability without increasing policy capacity or performing full online policy optimization during deployment. Global driving competence is decoupled from region-specific adaptation through explicit region-conditioned representations. Long-term regional characteristics are distilled into map-level historical memory via a latent-variable encoder, while real-time interactions are modeled by a dual-layer traffic graph neural network that jointly captures vehicle interactions and road topology. The resulting region-conditioned representation is used to condition a shared reinforcement learning planner at inference time, where dynamic behavior arises from location-indexed retrieval and conditional forward inference rather than parameter growth. We evaluate DLE in multi-region closed-loop CARLA benchmarks. Under a fixed parameter budget, DLE consistently improves cross-regional adaptability and outperforms baselines in safety and comfort metrics. These results indicate that memory-based region-aware enhancement offers a practical paradigm for scaling autonomous driving planners under deployment constraints.
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With the growing interest in autonomous driving, there is an increasing demand for accurate and reliable road perception technologies. In complex environments without high-definition map support, autonomous vehicles must independently interpret their surroundings to ensure safe and robust decision-making. However, these scenarios pose significant challenges due to the large number, complex geometries, and frequent occlusions of road elements. A key limitation of existing approaches lies in their insufficient exploitation of the structured priors inherently present in road elements, resulting in irregular, inaccurate predictions. To address this, we propose PriorFusion, a unified framework that effectively integrates semantic, geometric, and generative priors to enhance road element perception. We introduce an instance-aware attention mechanism guided by shape-prior features, then construct a data-driven shape template space that encodes low-dimensional representations of road elements, enabling clustering to generate anchor points as reference priors. We design a diffusion-based framework that leverages these prior anchors to generate accurate and complete predictions. Experiments on large-scale autonomous driving datasets demonstrate that our method significantly improves perception accuracy, particularly under challenging conditions. Visualization results further confirm that our approach produces more accurate, regular, and coherent predictions of road elements.
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