Title: Prompt, Predict, Correct: LLM-TrajEcho for Closed-Loop Trajectory Forecasting via Online Prompt Feedback
Primary area: applications to computer vision, audio, language, and other modalities
Keywords: Autonomous Driving; Large Language Models; Prompt-based Sequence Modeling; Closed-loop Feedback Learning

Abstract: Accurate trajectory prediction is fundamental to the safety of autonomous vehicles. However, state-of-the-art methods often rely on computationally intensive multi-sensor fusion to achieve high precision, which increases system complexity and hinders real-time deployment. Furthermore, most predictors operate in an open-loop manner, suffering from uncorrected error accumulation. In response, we propose LLM-TrajEcho, a lightweight, end-to-end vision-based framework that eliminates the need for sensor fusion while enabling real-time performance and closed-loop correction. Our framework efficiently encodes spatiotemporal features from video sequences and translates them into structured natural language prompts for a large language model (LLM), leveraging Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (LoRA) to ensure computational efficiency. A key innovation is our online closed-loop feedback mechanism, which dynamically refines the LLM's context based on prediction errors, mitigating long-term drift. Experiments on nuScenes and KITTI Tracking datasets demonstrate that LLM-TrajEcho runs at 0.53 ms per sample, achieves competitive ADE, significantly improves FDE by 30\%, and MR by 21\%. Our work shows that vision-based prediction, combined with LLM reasoning and closed-loop learning, offers a viable path toward accurate and efficient autonomous driving. Demo: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/ICLR-Demo-175B/