arXiv:2608. 13719v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous systems can fail in rare and heterogeneous ways, making real-world failure discovery difficult under limited testing budgets.
By Anjali Parashar, Rachel Luo, Apoorva Sharma, Sushant Veer, Edward Schmerling, Carson Sobolewski, Mingxin Yu, Chuchu Fan, Marco Pavone
arXiv:2606. 31131v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To ensure safe on-road behavior, pre-deployment testing and failure discovery of Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) is crucial.
By Anjali Parashar, Chuchu Fan
arXiv:2606. 31844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A local-to-global context mismatch arises when autoregressive traffic simulators trained on ego-centric driving logs are deployed in globally observable closed-loop environments.
By Ziyan Wang, Tan Xiang, Peng Chen, Xintao Yan
arXiv:2607. 24577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents are increasingly deployed in safety-critical domains such as robotics, autonomous driving, and drone control, where unexpected behaviors may lead to severe real-world consequences.
By Zhibin Kang, Hanmo You, Dong Wang, Haiming Zheng, Junjie Chen
arXiv:2607. 23134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discovering rare safety-critical failures in autonomous and cyber-physical systems is a fundamental challenge in verification and validation.
By Tanmay Khandait, Preetom Biswas, Hideki Okamoto, Bardh Hoxha, Georgios Fainekos, Giulia Pedrielli
arXiv:2608. 13450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous vehicles depend on large safety-critical software stacks, where weaknesses reachable from adversarial inputs may affect steering, braking, or other control decisions.
By Md Wasiul Haque, Sagar Dasgupta, Mizanur Rahman, Md Rayhanur Rahman
arXiv:2607. 22697v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deployed AI systems are often trained from broad candidate data pools, necessitating data curation towards the deployment test distribution.
By Nadine Chang, Maying Shen, Shizhe Diao, Jialiang Wang, Jingde Chen, Thomas Breuel, Pavlo Molchanov, Rafid Mahmood, Jose M. Alvarez
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:2607. 22880v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have driven growing interest in using LLMs to automate test generation.
By Junda Zhao, Shurui Zhou, Eldan Cohen
arXiv:2511. 14592v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show great promise for autonomous driving, but their suitability for safety-critical scenarios is largely unexplored, raising safety concerns.
By Xianhui Meng, Yuchen Zhang, Zhijian Huang, Zheng Lu, Ziling Ji, Yandan Lin, Yaoyao Yin, Hongyuan Zhang, Wei Zhou, Guangfeng Jiang, Li Zhang, Long Chen, Hangjun Ye, Jun Liu, Xiaoshuai Hao
arXiv:2606. 04310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly being deployed in security-critical and safety-sensitive applications, which makes rigorous testing essential to identify and mitigate model weaknesses.
By Bin Duan, Matthew B. Dwyer, Guowei Yang
arXiv:2608. 14711v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI coding agent benchmarks rank agents with the Chen et al.
By Jiajun Jiang, Sharon Zheng, Natan Vidra, Spurthi Setty