用测试时训练动态优化自动驾驶决策,无需预设规则即可提升安全性。
Centaur: Robust End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Test-Time Training
- 通过聚类熵衡量决策不确定性,动态更新模型参数
- 在navtest排行榜首,碰撞前时间显著提升
- 适合关注自动驾驶安全与鲁棒性的研究者
如何在部署阶段信赖端到端自动驾驶系统的复杂决策?传统方法依赖预设的‘回退层’或成本函数来修正轨迹,但这些规则无法随新数据学习,常导致过度保守。本文提出Centaur(基于不确定性聚类熵的测试时训练),通过测试时训练更新规划器行为,无需人工设计规则或成本函数。我们引入一种新的不确定性度量——聚类熵,该方法简单、可解释且兼容现有规划算法。利用先前测试时间步的数据,通过最小化聚类熵的梯度对模型参数进行更新。仅需一次推理前的参数调整,Centaur在navtest榜单排名第一,关键安全指标如碰撞前时间显著改善。此外,我们还提出了navsafe这一新基准,揭示了现有驾驶模型未被发现的失效模式。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
How can we rely on an end-to-end autonomous vehicle's complex decision-making system during deployment? One common solution is to have a ``fallback layer'' that checks the planned trajectory for rule violations and replaces it with a pre-defined safe action if necessary. Another approach involves adjusting the planner's decisions to minimize a pre-defined ``cost function'' using additional system predictions such as road layouts and detected obstacles. However, these pre-programmed rules or cost functions cannot learn and improve with new training data, often resulting in overly conservative behaviors. In this work, we propose Centaur (Cluster Entropy for Test-time trAining using Uncertainty) which updates a planner's behavior via test-time training, without relying on hand-engineered rules or cost functions. Instead, we measure and minimize the uncertainty in the planner's decisions. For this, we develop a novel uncertainty measure, called Cluster Entropy, which is simple, interpretable, and compatible with state-of-the-art planning algorithms. Using data collected at prior test-time time-steps, we perform an update to the model's parameters using a gradient that minimizes the Cluster Entropy. With only this sole gradient update prior to inference, Centaur exhibits significant improvements, ranking first on the navtest leaderboard with notable gains in safety-critical metrics such as time to collision. To provide detailed insights on a per-scenario basis, we also introduce navsafe, a challenging new benchmark, which highlights previously undiscovered failure modes of driving models.
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