All notable changes to WorldEngine will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

• Initial open source release preparation
• LICENSE file (Apache 2.0)
• CONTRIBUTING.md with contribution guidelines
• CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md for community standards
• GitHub issue and PR templates
• CI/CD workflows for automated testing and linting
• Pre-commit hooks configuration

• Fixed installation scripts to use auto-detected paths instead of placeholders
• Updated quick test scripts with automatic WORLDENGINE_ROOT detection

• Removed internal source URLs from configuration files

• SimEngine: Photorealistic closed-loop simulation engine

  • 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) based rendering
  • Real-time interactive simulation
  • Ray distributed testing support
  • Hydra-based configuration management

• AlgEngine: End-to-end model training and evaluation framework

  • Support for UniAD and NavFormer architectures
  • MMDetection3D integration
  • nuPlan dataset support
  • Closed-loop evaluation capabilities
  • RL-based post-training pipeline

• Documentation:

  • Comprehensive installation guide
  • Quick start tutorial
  • Detailed usage documentation for both engines
  • Data organization guidelines
  • FAQ section

• Features:

  • Automatic long-tail scenario discovery
  • Behavior world model for traffic generation
  • Multi-GPU distributed training and testing
  • Production-scale ADAS validation

• Requires Python 3.8+ (AlgEngine) or 3.9+ (SimEngine)
• CUDA 11.8 and PyTorch 2.0.1 required
• Tested on Linux systems with NVIDIA GPUs

• MAJOR version for incompatible API changes
• MINOR version for new functionality in a backward compatible manner
• PATCH version for backward compatible bug fixes

See CONTRIBUTING.md for information on how to contribute to this changelog and the project.

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.