arXiv:2608. 10386v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sample-efficient reinforcement learning for autonomous driving is often limited by the trade-off between data efficiency and model bias.
By Jiazhuo Li, Linjiang Cao, Qi Liu, Xi Xiong
arXiv:2607. 13028v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training robust autonomous driving agents requires a simulator that is fast enough for reinforcement learning at scale, realistic enough to ground behavior in real-world map structure, and diverse enough to cover the safety-critical long tail that logged data rarely contains.
By Zhouchonghao Wu, Akshay Rangesh, Weixin Li, Wei-Jer Chang, Zachary Lee, Tim Wang, Wei Zhan
arXiv:2606. 31106v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale datasets and fast simulators have enabled improvements in driving policies that appear safe and robust, yet strong performance in nominal scenarios can still mask flawed reasoning and unsafe heuristics.
By Hyeonchang Jeon, Kyungbeom Kim, Eugene Vinitsky, Kyung-Joong Kim
arXiv:2601. 00898v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based policies have gained growing popularity in solving a wide range of decision-making tasks due to their superior expressiveness and controllable generation during inference.
By Ruiming Liang, Yinan Zheng, Kexin Zheng, Tianyi Tan, Jianxiong Li, Liyuan Mao, Zhihao Wang, Guang Chen, Hangjun Ye, Jingjing Liu, Jinqiao Wang, Xianyuan Zhan
arXiv:2608. 10403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising performance in autonomous driving, yet ensuring the safety of online RL policies remains challenging due to insufficient exposure to safety-critical driving scenes.
By Xincong Hu (Nanjing University), Lei Ou (Nanjing University), Maosen Li (Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd), Jingtao Zhang (Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd), Liguo Hou (Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd), Zongzhang Zhang (Nanjing University)
arXiv:2606. 30537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous driving policies should be able to improve continually as deployment exposes them to increasingly diverse and long-tail traffic situations.
By Cheng Gong, Haoyang Wang, Chao Lu, Zirui Li, Jianwei Gong
arXiv:2508. 16947v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite significant progress, imitation learning-based autonomous driving planners remain largely restricted to reproducing high-frequency biased behaviors, overlooking the inherent behavioral diversity of human driving.
By Fan Ding, Xuewen Luo, Fucai Ke, Hwa Hui Tew, Susilawati Susilawati, Vishnu Monn Baskaran, Junn Yong Loo
arXiv:2606. 03678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating safety-critical scenarios is essential for validating and improving autonomous driving systems, yet it inherently requires maximizing adversariality to expose failures while preserving realism.
By Tong Nie, Yuewen Mei, Yihong Tang, Junlin He, Jie Deng, Jian Sun, Wei Ma
SCAPE is a scenario‑conditioned simulation‑augmented policy evaluation framework that predicts real‑world policy performance for specific scenarios using limited paired simulation‑and‑real samples and extensive simulation rollouts. It corrects sim‑to‑real bias in simulation labels before training the prediction model and calibrates prediction uncertainty via conformal prediction. Experiments on autonomous driving and quadruped velocity tracking show SCAPE reduces scenario‑level prediction error, improves testing sample efficiency, narrows calibrated prediction intervals, and generalizes better to out‑of‑distribution scenarios, enabling fine‑grained deployment strategies.
arXiv:2510. 12560v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving models trained with imitation learning (IL) often generalize poorly, particularly in long-tail scenarios where expert demonstrations are sparse.
By Xiaoji Zheng, Ziyuan Yang, Yanhao Chen, Yuhang Peng, Yuanrong Tang, Gengyuan Liu, Bokui Chen, Jiangtao Gong
arXiv:2602. 07339v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based trajectory planners can model multi-modal driving behavior, but their iterative denoising process introduces a latency bottleneck for real-time closed-loop deployment.
By Ruturaj Reddy, Hrishav Bakul Barua, Junn Yong Loo, Thanh Thi Nguyen, Ganesh Krishnasamy
arXiv:2607. 10630v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust motion planning in dense traffic requires autonomous vehicles to interact in rare and safety-critical scenarios that are underrepresented in naturalistic driving data.
By Tong Nie, Yuewen Mei, Junlin He, Yihong Tang, Jian Sun, Wei Ma