Beyond the Leaderboard: Counterfactual Diagnosis of End-to-End and VLA Driving Policies Under Domain Shift
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arXiv:2609.37871v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Average performance on routine driving benchmarks does not establish planner reliability under rare, safety-critical hazards. We proposed ExceptionDr...
End-to-end autonomous driving models are now able to navigate complex road scenarios, mapping raw sensor observations directly to observed paths for open-loop evaluation and often effective driving in closed-loop evaluation. Yet the internal logic of these safety-critical systems remains largely opaque, due to the complexity of traffic scenes.
arXiv:2607. 16938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving models are now able to navigate complex road scenarios, mapping raw sensor observations directly to observed paths for open-loop evaluation and often effective driving in closed-loop evaluation.
TrafficImag is the first benchmark designed to evaluate counterfactual roadside traffic video generation, combining a large roadside dataset with an executable protocol that supports behavior reasoning, intervention-aware image editing, and conditional video generation. Each intervention is encoded as an actor-level program specifying target actor, intended behavior, legal route, interaction order, and temporal constraints, allowing a unified evaluation across diverse foundation models. The benchmark assesses four validity dimensions—initial-state correctness, route and behavior validity, interaction consistency, and non-target preservation—and reports that the best models achieve 80.4% macro F1 for reasoning and 55.0% end-to-end success when using a complete condition interface.
The paper introduces a dual‑judge evaluation protocol for vision‑language models in legally grounded tasks, pairing a 0‑10 quality judge with a strict binary semantic‑equivalence judge. Using a controlled UK traffic‑sign interpretation task, the authors analyze 4,680 evaluations across visibility and occlusion conditions, finding moderate association between judges and an asymmetric Type II error pattern that is most pronounced under heavy occlusion. The protocol requires only one additional LLM call and reveals quality‑trustworthiness signals that single‑judge methods miss.
arXiv:2609.13308v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A companion evaluation found that naming the target part in a manipulation prompt increased action accuracy by 0.32-0.63 across eight vision-language...