13 papers
Planning-Oriented End-to-End Autonomous Driving: Architectures, Evaluation, and Emerging Paradigms
Yanchen Guan, Xingcheng Liu, Bin Rao +7
End-to-end autonomous driving has evolved from camera-to-control regression toward planning-oriented systems that use structured representations, trajectory-level outputs, and incr…
SWIFT: A Small-World Interaction Framework for Flow-Aware Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving
Chengyue Wang, Bin Rao, Haicheng Liao +3
Accurate trajectory prediction in autonomous driving hinges on modeling dynamic and context-dependent interactions among traffic agents. However, most existing approaches are purel…
TRACER: Training-Free Closed-Loop Structured Inference for Traffic Accident Reconstruction
Yanchen Guan, Chengyue Wang, Bin Rao +5
Traffic accident reconstruction is a forensic inverse problem that requires recovering physically consistent motion from sparse and heterogeneous evidence. Existing learning-based…
CT: Captioning-Structure and LLM-Aligned Common-Sense Reward Learning for Traffic--Vehicle Coordination
Yuyang Chen, Kaiyan Zhao, Yiming Wang +3
State-of-the-art (SOTA) urban traffic control increasingly employs Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) to coordinate Traffic Light Controllers (TLCs) and Connected Autonomous…
SAIL: Scene-aware Adaptive Iterative Learning for Long-Tail Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Vehicles
Bin Rao, Haicheng Liao, Chengyue Wang +3
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely on accurate trajectory prediction for safe navigation in diverse traffic environments, yet existing models struggle with long-tail scenarios-rare but…
Map-World: Masked Action planning and Path-Integral World Model for Autonomous Driving
Bin Hu, Zijian Lu, Haicheng Liao +7
Motion planning for autonomous driving must handle multiple plausible futures while remaining computationally efficient. Recent end-to-end systems and world-model-based planners pr…
Predict and Resist: Long-Term Accident Anticipation under Sensor Noise
Xingcheng Liu, Bin Rao, Yanchen Guan +6
Accident anticipation is essential for proactive and safe autonomous driving, where even a brief advance warning can enable critical evasive actions. However, two key challenges hi…
Differentiable Semantic Meta-Learning Framework for Long-Tail Motion Forecasting in Autonomous Driving
Bin Rao, Chengyue Wang, Haicheng Liao +7
Long-tail motion forecasting is a core challenge for autonomous driving, where rare yet safety-critical events-such as abrupt maneuvers and dense multi-agent interactions-dominate…
Eyes on the Road, Mind Beyond Vision: Context-Aware Multi-modal Enhanced Risk Anticipation
Jiaxun Zhang, Haicheng Liao, Yumu Xie +4
Accurate accident anticipation remains challenging when driver cognition and dynamic road conditions are underrepresented in predictive models. In this paper, we propose CAMERA (Co…
AMD: Adaptive Momentum and Decoupled Contrastive Learning Framework for Robust Long-Tail Trajectory Prediction
Bin Rao, Haicheng Liao, Yanchen Guan +4
Accurately predicting the future trajectories of traffic agents is essential in autonomous driving. However, due to the inherent imbalance in trajectory distributions, tail data in…
Beyond Patterns: Harnessing Causal Logic for Autonomous Driving Trajectory Prediction
Bonan Wang, Haicheng Liao, Chengyue Wang +7
Accurate trajectory prediction has long been a major challenge for autonomous driving (AD). Traditional data-driven models predominantly rely on statistical correlations, often ove…
SafeCast: Risk-Responsive Motion Forecasting for Autonomous Vehicles
Haicheng Liao, Hanlin Kong, Bin Rao +7
Accurate motion forecasting is essential for the safety and reliability of autonomous driving (AD) systems. While existing methods have made significant progress, they often overlo…
NEST: A Neuromodulated Small-world Hypergraph Trajectory Prediction Model for Autonomous Driving
Chengyue Wang, Haicheng Liao, Bonan Wang +6
Accurate trajectory prediction is essential for the safety and efficiency of autonomous driving. Traditional models often struggle with real-time processing, capturing non-linearit…