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most citedSAFE-SIM: Safety-Critical Closed-Loop Traffic Simulation with Diffusion-Controllable Adversaries

1 citations · 1 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG2026

SHRED: Self-Play for Heterogeneous Road-Users without Expert Demonstrations

Wei-Jer Chang, Zhouchonghao Wu, Akshay Rangesh +3

Realistic traffic simulation and autonomous planning both depend on modeling interactions among heterogeneous road users whose dynamics, constraints, and behaviors differ fundament…

cs.LG2026

TerraZero: Procedural Driving Simulation for Zero-Demonstration Self-Play at Scale

Zhouchonghao Wu, Akshay Rangesh, Weixin Li +5

Training robust autonomous driving agents requires a simulator fast enough for reinforcement learning at scale, realistic enough to ground behavior in real-world map structure, and…

cs.CV2026

ECoSim: Data Efficient Fine-Tuning for Controllable Traffic Simulation

Yu-Hsiang Chen, Wei-Jer Chang, Yi-Ting Chen +1

Controllable traffic simulation is critical for testing autonomous driving systems, yet existing approaches often require retraining large generative models with extensive annotate…

cs.CV2026

Learning to Drive is a Free Gift: Large-Scale Label-Free Autonomy Pretraining from Unposed In-The-Wild Videos

Matthew Strong, Wei-Jer Chang, Quentin Herau +4

Ego-centric driving videos available online provide an abundant source of visual data for autonomous driving, yet their lack of annotations makes it difficult to learn representati…

cs.RO2026

HetroD: A High-Fidelity Drone Dataset and Benchmark for Autonomous Driving in Heterogeneous Traffic

Yu-Hsiang Chen, Wei-Jer Chang, Christian Kotulla +7

We present HetroD, a dataset and benchmark for developing autonomous driving systems in heterogeneous environments. HetroD targets the critical challenge of navi- gating real-world…

cs.LG2025

SPACeR: Self-Play Anchoring with Centralized Reference Models

Wei-Jer Chang, Akshay Rangesh, Kevin Joseph +4

Developing autonomous vehicles (AVs) requires not only safety and efficiency, but also realistic, human-like behaviors that are socially aware and predictable. Achieving this requi…

cs.LG2025

LANGTRAJ: Diffusion Model and Dataset for Language-Conditioned Trajectory Simulation

Wei-Jer Chang, Wei Zhan, Masayoshi Tomizuka +2

Evaluating autonomous vehicles with controllability enables scalable testing in counterfactual or structured settings, enhancing both efficiency and safety. We introduce LangTraj,…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

SAFE-SIM: Safety-Critical Closed-Loop Traffic Simulation with Diffusion-Controllable Adversaries

Wei-Jer Chang, Francesco Pittaluga, Masayoshi Tomizuka +2

Evaluating the performance of autonomous vehicle planning algorithms necessitates simulating long-tail safety-critical traffic scenarios. However, traditional methods for generatin…

cs.RO2023

Editing Driver Character: Socially-Controllable Behavior Generation for Interactive Traffic Simulation

Wei-Jer Chang, Chen Tang, Chenran Li +3

Traffic simulation plays a crucial role in evaluating and improving autonomous driving planning systems. After being deployed on public roads, autonomous vehicles need to interact…

cs.RO2022

Analyzing and Enhancing Closed-loop Stability in Reactive Simulation

Wei-Jer Chang, Yeping Hu, Chenran Li +2

Simulation has played an important role in efficiently evaluating self-driving vehicles in terms of scalability. Existing methods mostly rely on heuristic-based simulation, where t…