arXiv AI

Emotion in an active inference model of human driving

arXiv:2608. 07480v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active inference has emerged as a principled framework for modeling adaptive behavior by balancing goal-directed action with uncertainty reduction.

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 23

Decision Making and Ride Comfort Evaluation Based on Lane-Change Prediction for Autonomous Vehicles

The paper presents a lane‑change prediction model using knowledge‑graph embeddings and Bayesian inference to anticipate surrounding vehicles’ intentions 3–4 seconds before they occur. Three driving strategies—reactive, prediction‑based longitudinal, and prediction‑based lateral—are compared in CARLA simulations of risky merging scenarios. Prediction‑based approaches avoid collisions, reduce peak deceleration by up to 91 %, and are evaluated for ride comfort using ISO 2631‑1 vibration estimates.

By Mohamed Manzour, Aditya Kumar, Rub\'en Izquierdo, Miguel \'Angel Sotelo
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Quantum-Inspired Modeling of Driving Behavior

The paper introduces a quantum-inspired representation of driver behavior that models drivers as evolving density matrices, capturing continuous, probabilistic, context-dependent, and history-dependent interactions among behavioral variables. Trained unsupervised on the I‑24 MOTION dataset, the framework identifies three interpretable driving regimes—free flow, transition, and congestion—and reproduces macroscopic traffic phenomena such as the fundamental diagram and hysteresis loops. The representation also enhances practical applications by providing context-dependent parameters for classical car‑following models and enabling autonomous vehicles to forecast nearby drivers’ motion in real time.

By Mohammad Elayan, Omid Armantalab, Wissam Kontar
arXiv AI
Sep 30

Learning from Shared-Control Overrides: Context-Driven Acceleration Profile Prediction for Personalized Overtaking

The paper introduces Context-driven Personalized ACC (CoP-ACC), a data‑driven framework that learns from drivers’ throttle overrides to tailor Adaptive Cruise Control behavior. It uses unsupervised clustering to identify representative acceleration profiles, a context classifier to select the appropriate profile based on pre‑maneuver conditions, and a residual regressor to smooth the final profile. Evaluations on real‑world public‑road data show that CoP-ACC reconstructs driver‑expected acceleration patterns more accurately than a standard forced‑ACC baseline, suggesting it can reduce manual interventions and improve ride comfort.

By Ruizheng Xu (Heudiasyc), Lounis Adouane (Heudiasyc), Javier Iba\~nez-Guzm\'an, Cl\'ement Zinoune
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 18

Plug-and-Play Traffic Element Awareness for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

The paper introduces a plug‑and‑play method that injects traffic‑element signals—such as traffic lights and road signs—into end‑to‑end autonomous driving models with minimal architectural changes. By augmenting several public datasets with comprehensive traffic‑element annotations, the authors evaluate this integration across diverse driving paradigms, consistently improving performance on nuScenes, NAVSIM‑v1, NAVSIM‑v2, and Bench2Drive. The approach achieves a new state‑of‑the‑art result on the challenging NAVSIM‑v2 benchmark, demonstrating the broad utility of traffic‑element awareness.