BridgeGuard: Explicit Safety Drift for Diffusion-based Autonomous Driving

BridgeGuard is a safety‑constrained diffusion planning method for autonomous driving that progressively strengthens a constraint term during denoising, guiding intermediate trajectories toward a scene‑dependent safety domain. It operates in a low‑dimensional curve space and uses a learned DistanceFieldNet to predict a time‑dependent distance field from bird’s‑eye‑view features, providing safety injection while keeping the perception backbone and planner frozen. Experiments on Bench2Drive show that BridgeGuard improves driving scores and success rates across two diffusion‑based models, demonstrating cross‑model generalization.

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• agents
• diffusion
• robotics
• safety