The paper introduces Interaction-Constrained Drive Policy (ICDP), an offline reinforcement learning framework for autonomous driving that explicitly controls interaction-level distribution shift. ICDP decomposes joint-support degradation into ego-support and interaction-support components, estimating the latter via contrastive density-ratio estimation without requiring joint-density modeling or simulator rollouts. Experiments on nuPlan, Interplan, and real-world truck data demonstrate that ICDP reduces selection of high-value but interaction-unsupported trajectories and improves performance in interaction-critical driving scenarios.
By Mahmoud Selim, Cristina Cipriani, Karl Henrik Johansson
arXiv:2608. 06445v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Capturing the strategic decision-making inherent in competitive human driving is critical for autonomous vehicle safety and traffic simulation.
By Yu Song
arXiv:2606. 16558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Roundabouts challenge automated driving in mixed traffic, as heterogeneous and non-deterministic human behavior, unknown driving intentions, and high interaction complexity create uncertainty about whether the conflict zone will be blocked or available at the moment of entry.
By Anna-Lena Schlamp, Jeremias Gerner, Klaus Bogenberger, Werner Huber, Stefanie Schmidtner
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:2609.37098v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vehicle-infrastructure cooperation can complement onboard sensing with broader and more informative observations of the traffic environment, providin...
By Junwei You, Weizhe Tang, Can Wang, Yan Zhao, Jun Hua, Haotian Shi, Wei Zhang, Lin Wang, Bin Ran
The paper introduces Ctrl-CWM, a multi‑agent controllable crowd world model that merges crowd generation with run‑time control. It uses an encoder to learn human motion dynamics, an actor to propose pedestrian displacements, a critic to evaluate imagined trajectories, and a planner that selects actions based on critic scores and user‑defined costs. Experiments show that Ctrl‑CWM outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods in realism and collision metrics while allowing new control objectives to be added without retraining.
By JunGyu Lee, Jisu Shin, Seunghyun Shin, Hae-Gon Jeon
arXiv:2506. 12283v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modeling vehicle interactions at unsignalized intersections is a challenging task due to the complexity of the underlying game-theoretic processes.
By Kehua Chen, Ryan Feng Lin, Shucheng Zhang, Yinhai Wang
Traffic microsimulators rely on hand-crafted behavior models that reproduce aggregate flow but miss the heterogeneous interactions between vehicles at signalized intersections. Learned trajectory predictors capture richer interactions but are short-horizon and tend to be unstable when run in closed loop.
The paper presents Learn2Drive, a neural‑network‑based framework for socially compliant adaptive cruise control in automated vehicles. It incorporates social value orientation to let AVs consider their impact on human‑driven vehicles and overall traffic flow, aiming to reduce congestion and improve efficiency. Numerical experiments show that shifting the AV’s objective from personal energy savings to collective traffic flow can boost downstream vehicle speeds by over 38% and dampen traffic oscillations.
By Yuhui Liu, Samannita Halder, Shian Wang, Tianyi Li
arXiv:2608. 12198v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent research in machine and deep learning has shown the potential of learningbased motion planning approaches to improve the driving behavior of automated vehicles, especially in complex environments.
By Jean-Pierre Busch, Guido Linden, Jan Bergmann, Lutz Eckstein
arXiv:2607. 11964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving requires long-horizon closedloop decision making in dynamic traffic environments.
By Yongzhi Liu, Yang Xiao, Zhong Cao, Zeng Kang, Sunan Zhang, Zhaozhi Dong, Guojun Yu, Weichao Zhuang
Autonomous driving requires long-horizon closedloop decision making in dynamic traffic environments. Latent world models offer an effective framework for this problem by enabling imagination-based decision making in compact latent spaces.