让自动驾驶模型从自身错误中学习,持续提升驾驶能力。
Learning from Mistakes: Rollout-Retrieval Lifelong Policy Learning for Autonomous Driving

- 从自身运行中的可挽回错误中提取修正目标,转化为可学习知识。
- 仅用少量试运行和持续学习循环,显著提升模型在复杂场景表现。
- 适合需要长期迭代优化的自动驾驶系统开发者。
自动驾驶策略应能随着部署过程中遇到越来越多样、长尾化的交通场景而持续改进。然而,多数基于学习的策略仅通过专家示范训练或微调,主要依赖泛化能力应对复杂的闭环场景,缺乏明确机制来纠正并保留这些场景中的错误。本文从终身学习视角研究自动驾驶策略的改进:预训练策略能否通过积累自身错误产生的修正知识,同时保持已有驾驶能力?为此,提出滚动-检索终身策略学习(R²LPL)框架,从可挽回的策略诱发错误中检索修正目标,并通过终身学习保留知识。该方法解决持续改进的关键瓶颈:闭环错误揭示策略薄弱点,但不直接指明应学内容。通过筛选可挽回的错误状态并检索可行的修正目标,R²LPL将稀疏的失败证据转化为紧凑的监督知识,实现稳定且高效的策略改进。我们在大规模闭环nuPlan基准上评估R²LPL,仅需少数滚动和持续学习周期,即可将初始性能中等的学习型规划器提升至所评估基准上的顶尖水平,尤其在挑战性与长尾的Test14-hard子集上表现突出。结果证明了R²LPL在将可挽回的闭环错误转化为修正知识以实现持续策略改进方面的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Autonomous driving policies should be able to improve continually as deployment exposes them to increasingly diverse and long-tail traffic situations. However, most learning-based policies are trained or fine-tuned on expert demonstrations and then rely largely on generalization to handle challenging closed-loop scenarios, lacking an explicit mechanism to correct and retain the mistakes exposed in these scenarios. This paper studies autonomous driving policy improvement from a lifelong learning perspective: Can a pretrained policy improve continually by accumulating corrective knowledge derived from its own mistakes, while retaining previously acquired driving competence? To answer this question, we propose Rollout-Retrieval Lifelong Policy Learning (R$^2$LPL), a policy learning framework that retrieves corrective targets from recoverable policy-induced mistakes and retains the resulting knowledge through lifelong policy learning. R^2LPL addresses a key bottleneck in continual policy improvement: closed-loop mistakes reveal where the policy is weak, but do not directly specify what the policy should learn. By filtering recoverable mistake-related states and retrieving feasible corrective targets, R$^2$LPL turns sparse failure evidence into compact supervised knowledge for stable and sample-efficient policy improvement. We evaluate R$^2$LPL on large-scale closed-loop nuPlan benchmarks. With only a few rollout and continual-learning cycles, R$^2$LPL elevates a learning-based planner with moderate initial performance to state-of-the-art performance across the evaluated benchmarks, especially on the challenging and long-tail Test14-hard split. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of R$^2$LPL in converting recoverable closed-loop mistakes into corrective knowledge for sustained policy improvement.
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