The paper introduces heterogeneous kernel metrics for Deep Kernel Learning to predict uncertain opponent vehicle trajectories in autonomous racing. By aligning similar driving policies and separating dissimilar ones in an unsupervised way, the method improves prediction accuracy and enables safer overtaking. Experiments on a 1/10th scale racecar platform confirm the approach’s effectiveness and computational efficiency for onboard units.
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.
arXiv:2611. 06007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motorized Two-Wheelers (MTWs) dominate personal transport across much of the Global South, yet remain largely overlooked in predictive perception research for autonomous driving and ADAS.
The paper introduces NegWAM, a safety post‑training framework for unified world‑action models (WAMs) used in end‑to‑end autonomous driving. NegWAM generates negative trajectories that are close to expert paths but contain safety risks, using them as repulsive anchors to steer predictions away from dangerous behavior while encoding scene‑trajectory compatibility via rider tokens. The method achieves a 4.1% relative improvement on the NAVSIM v2 navhard benchmark and 93.3 EPDMS on navtest, demonstrating strong safety performance without sacrificing routine driving, and shows cross‑benchmark generalization in zero‑shot closed‑loop tests on HUGSIM.
arXiv:2606. 00857v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate and reliable vehicle trajectory prediction is essential for safe autonomous driving.
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.
arXiv:2510. 09041v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has demonstrated remarkable success in developing autonomous driving policies.
arXiv:2606. 06423v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety-critical traffic scenario generation is essential for evaluating autonomous driving systems under rare but high-risk interactions.
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.
arXiv:2606. 17362v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous driving has shifted towards end-to-end policy learning, where reliable, interpretable policy evaluation is a fundamental challenge as driving quality is highly context-dependent.
The paper introduces Closed-Loop Aware Planning for Autonomous Driving (CLAP‑AD), a new planning head that learns a driving path via imitation while independently scoring candidate speeds using a learned function guided by safety constraints. Unlike traditional open‑loop imitation learning, CLAP‑AD allows explicit test‑time control over speed selection without requiring speed‑conditioned training. Experiments on Bench2Drive‑Speed, Bench2Drive, and NAVSIM v2 demonstrate significant improvements in speed‑adherence and overall driving performance compared to state‑of‑the‑art baselines.
arXiv:2607. 00283v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous vehicles must safely navigate complex environments where planning-critical agents may be hidden from view.
arXiv:2610.08123v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end planners based on waypoint regression achieve strong open-loop accuracy, but they primarily learn to mimic expert geometry and remain diff...