11 papers
World Models as Adversaries: Multi-Agent Self-Play Fine-Tuning for Robust Motion Planning
Tong Nie, Yuewen Mei, Junlin He +3
Robust motion planning in dense traffic requires autonomous vehicles to interact in rare and safety-critical scenarios that are underrepresented in naturalistic driving data. Altho…
From Attacks to Curricula: Learnability-Guided Adversarial Training for Safe Autonomous Driving
Yuewen Mei, Tong Nie, Jie Sun +3
Closed-loop adversarial training improves autonomous driving safety by exposing policies to rare safety-critical scenarios. Standard pipelines first generate adversarial scenarios…
EvoDrive: Pareto Evolution for Safety-Critical Autonomous Driving via Self-Improving LLM Agents
Tong Nie, Yuewen Mei, Yihong Tang +4
Generating safety-critical scenarios is essential for validating and improving autonomous driving systems, yet it inherently requires maximizing adversariality to expose failures w…
Reasoning-preserved Efficient Distillation of Large Language Models via Activation-aware Initialization
Junlin He, Yihong Tang, Tong Nie +5
Efficient Distillation (EDistill) compresses large language models (LLMs) by structured pruning parameters and tuning lightweight modules with high training efficiency. Although th…
ADV-0: Closed-Loop Min-Max Adversarial Training for Long-Tail Robustness in Autonomous Driving
Tong Nie, Yihong Tang, Junlin He +5
Deploying autonomous driving systems requires robustness against long-tail scenarios that are rare but safety-critical. While adversarial training offers a promising solution, exis…
Steerable Adversarial Scenario Generation through Test-Time Preference Alignment
Tong Nie, Yuewen Mei, Yihong Tang +5
Adversarial scenario generation is a cost-effective approach for safety assessment of autonomous driving systems. However, existing methods are often constrained to a single, fixed…