arXiv:2609.04921cs.CVcs.AI2026-09

一个扩散模型同时实现自动驾驶规划与危险场景生成,提升系统可靠性。

One Diffusion Model, Two Roles: Guided Trajectory Planning and Safety-Critical Scenario Generation in Closed-Loop Simulation

论文配图:One Diffusion Model, Two Roles: Guided Trajectory Planning and Safety-Critical Scenario Generation in Closed-Loop Simulation
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  • 用联合注意力融合环境信息,改进闭环规划性能
  • 通过能量引导生成高风险驾驶行为,真实还原长尾场景
  • 适合评估规划器鲁棒性,尤其在复杂交互场景中

扩散概率模型能捕捉驾驶场景中多模态、高交互的联合未来轨迹分布。我们证明,一个预训练的扩散交通模型可在自动驾驶开发闭环中扮演双重互补角色:作为主车运动规划器,以及可控的安全关键场景生成器,用于压力测试规划器。在规划方面,提出单流双通路(SSDS)扩散-变压器解码器,通过联合注意力融合场景上下文,而非后期交叉注意力,在nuPlan上提升闭环表现。进一步提出解耦退火后验采样与能量(DAPSE)方案,无需训练即可在纯净样本层面注入任意能量函数,避免一阶近似误差且无需辅助网络。在规划之外,利用同一扩散模型作为可控场景生成器,生成真实感强的长尾驾驶交互行为,通过推理时引导使特定车辆朝向高危行为演化,如激进切入、前车急刹及纵向横向复合交互,同时保持整体交通行为合理性。在独立黑盒规划器的nuPlan闭环仿真中评估,生成场景揭示了标准基准下隐藏的失效模式。尽管基于SSDS的规划器在常规任务中表现更强,但在挑战性场景下退化更明显,表明基准优势不等于鲁棒性。结果表明,单一学习的交通先验可同时优化运动规划并提供系统性规划器鲁棒性评估框架。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Diffusion probabilistic models can capture the multi-modal, interaction-rich distribution of joint future trajectories in driving scenes. We show that a single pretrained diffusion traffic model can serve two complementary roles in the autonomous driving development loop: as an ego motion planner, and as a controllable generator of safety-critical scenarios for stress-testing the planners. On the planning side, we introduce a Single-Stream Dual-Stream (SSDS) diffusion-transformer decoder that fuses scene context via joint attention rather than late cross-attention, improving closed-loop performance on nuPlan. We further propose Decoupled Annealing Posterior Sampling with Energy (DAPSE), a training-free guidance scheme that injects arbitrary energy functions at the clean-sample level, avoiding the first-order approximation errors while requiring no auxiliary networks. Beyond planning, we leverage the same diffusion model as a controllable scenario generator to create realistic long-tail driving interactions for closed-loop evaluation. Through inference-time guidance, selected agents are steered toward safety-critical behaviors, including aggressive cut-ins, lead-vehicle braking, and combined longitudinal-lateral interactions, while preserving realistic traffic behaviors. Evaluated in closed-loop nuPlan simulations with independent black-box planners, the generated scenarios expose failure modes that remain hidden under standard benchmarks. Although the SSDS-based planner achieves stronger nominal performance, it experiences larger degradation under these challenging scenarios, demonstrating that benchmark superiority does not necessarily translate to robustness. These results demonstrate that a single learned traffic prior can simultaneously improve motion planning and provide a realistic framework for systematic planner robustness evaluation.

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