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Waymo Open Dataset

Challenges

The 2025 Waymo Open Dataset Challenges are now live! We are inviting researchers to participate in four challenges involving our datasets.

Please review the Waymo Open Dataset Challenges 2025 Official Rules. To participate, еvery member of each team must meet the eligibility requirements and agree to the Official Rules.

2025 Challenge Winners

We're thrilled to announce the finalists* of the 2025 WOD Challenges!

Vision-based End-to-End Driving Challenge

Method and Technical Report

Authors

Affiliation

First Place

UniPlan

Lan Feng, Alexandre Alahi

EPFL

Second Place

DiffusionLTF

Long Nguyen, Micha Fauth, Bernhard Jaeger, Daniel Dauner, Maximilian Igl, Andreas Geiger, Kashyap Chitta

University of Tübingen, Tübingen AI Center, NVIDIA Research

Third Place

Swin-Trajectory

Sungjin Park, Gwangik Shin, Jaeha Song, Sumin Lee, Hyukju Shon, Byounggun Park, Jinhee Na, Hawook Jeong, Soonmin Hwang

Hanyang University, RideFlux Inc

Special Mention

Poutine

Luke Rowe, Rodrigue de Shaetzen, Roger Girgis, Christopher Pal, Liam Paull

Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Université de Montréal, Polytechnique Montréal, CIFAR AI Chair

Interaction Prediction Challenge

Method and Technical Report

Authors

Affiliation

First Place

Parallel ModeSeq

Zikang Zhou, Haibo Hu, Yifan Zhang, Yung-Hui Li, Jianping Wang, Nan Guan, Chun Jason Xue

City University of Hong Kong, Hon Hai Research Institute, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Second Place

IMPACT

Jiawei Sun, Xibin Yue, Jiahui Li, Tianle Shen, Chengram Yuan, Shuo Sun, Sheng Guo, Quanyun Zhou, Marcelo H. Ang Jr

National University of Singapore, Xiaomi EV

Third Place

BeTop-ens

Haochen Liu, Li Chen, Hongyang Li, Chen Lv

Nanyang Technology University, The University of Hong Kong

Honorable Mention

RetroMotion

Royden Wagner, Ömer Şahin Taş, Felix Hauser, Marlon Steiner, Dominik Strutz, Abhishek Vivekanandan, Carlos Fernandez, Christoph Stiller

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, FZI Research Center for Information Technology

Sim Agents Challenge

Method and Technical Report

Authors

Affiliation

First Place

TrajTok

Zhiyuan Zhang, Xiaosong Jia, Guanyu Chen, Qifeng Li, Junchi Yan

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Second Place

RLFTSim

Ehsan Ahmadi, Hunter Schofield

University of Alberta, York University

Third Place

comBOT

Christian Rössert, Johannes Drever, Lukas Brostek

cogniBIT GmbH

Honorable Mention

UniMM

Longzhong Lin, Xuewu Lin, Kechun Xu, Haojian Lu, Lichao Huang, Rong Xiong, Yue Wang

Zhejiang University, Horizon Robotics

Scenario Generation Challenge

Method and Technical Report

Authors

Affiliation

First Place

SimFormer

Sen Wang, Xu Jianrong, Xiaoyong Zhang, Fangqiao Hu, Kechen Zhu, Zhijun Huang, Jiaxiang Zhu, JiaChen Luo, Yong Zhou, Zhenwu Chen

Shenzhen Urban Transport Planning Center

Second Place

UniTSG

Jianrong Xu, Baicang Guo, Xingchen Liu, Wei Hong, Liangliang Li, Chenyun Xi, Yewei Shi, Peng Wang, Ruohai Di

Tongji University, Yanshan University, Xi'an Technological University

Third Place

SHRED

Micha Fauth, Long Nguyen, Bernhard Jaeger, Daniel Dauner, Maximilian Igl, Andreas Geiger, Kashyap Chitta

University of Tübingen, Tübingen AI Center, NVIDIA Research

Honorable Mention

InfGen

Zhenghao Peng, Yuxin Liu, Bolei Zhou

University of California, Los Angeles

Visit the individual challenge pages from the links below for a detailed breakdown of the results in the challenge leaderboards. Please note that the detailed leaderboard includes all participants, but only those who met the eligibility criteria and submitted a technical report are recognized as winners.

* Finalist rankings are provisional until completion of all eligibility verification checks.

2025 WOD Challenges

  • Interaction Prediction Given agents' tracks for the past 1 second on a corresponding map, predict the joint future positions of 2 interacting agents for 8 seconds into the future.

  • Sim Agents Given the agent tracks for the past 1 second on a corresponding map, and optionally the associated lidar for this time interval, simulate 32 realistic joint futures for all the agents in the scene.

  • Scenario Generation Given one-second pose history of the ego (or autonomous) vehicle on a provided map, generate 32 realistic scenarios with new agents and their trajectories.

  • Vision-based End-to-End Driving Given the ego status history and surrounding camera images for the past 12 seconds, predict 5-second waypoints at the specified moment.

All four challenges closed on May 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time.

Official Challenge Rules

Please see the Waymo Open Dataset Challenges 2025 Official Rules here.

Awards for Each Challenge

  • First place: $10,000 USD and a certificate.

  • Second place: $5,000 USD and a certificate.

  • Third place: $3,000 USD and a certificate.

We may choose to publish the technical report for select submissions, including the first, second, and third place submissions.

Additionally, teams with the best performing or noteworthy submissions may be invited to present their work at the Workshop on Autonomous Driving at CVPR in June 2025. Invitations may be extended both to teams using pre-trained weights from open source models, and teams not using them.

Past challenges

2024 WOD Challenges

The awards for the 2024 WOD Challenges (listed below) have already been given out, but the challenge pages and results are still available.

Perception challenges

Motion challenges

2023 WOD Challenges

The awards for the 2023 WOD Challenges (listed below) have already been given out, but the challenge pages and results are still available.

Perception challenges

Motion challenges

2022 WOD Challenges

The awards for the 2022 WOD Challenges (listed below) have already been given out, but the challenge pages and results are still available.

Perception challenges

Motion challenges

2021 WOD Challenges

The awards for the 2021 Challenges (listed below) have already been given out, but the challenge pages and results are still available.

Perception challenges

Motion challenges

2020 WOD Challenges

The awards for the 2020 Challenges (listed below) have already been given out, but the challenge pages and results are still available.

Perception challenges