Symphony: Learning Realistic and Diverse Agents for Autonomous Driving Simulation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.03195v1
• Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 13:21:40 GMT
• Title: Symphony: Learning Realistic and Diverse Agents for Autonomous Driving Simulation
• Authors: Maximilian Igl, Daewoo Kim, Alex Kuefler, Paul Mougin, Punit Shah, Kyriacos Shiarlis, Dragomir Anguelov, Mark Palatucci, Brandyn White, Shimon Whiteson
• Abstract summary: We propose Symphony, which greatly improves realism by combining conventional policies with a parallel beam search. Symphony addresses this issue with a hierarchical approach, factoring agent behaviour into goal generation and goal conditioning. Experiments confirm that Symphony agents learn more realistic and diverse behaviour than several baselines.
• Score: 45.09881984441893
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Simulation is a crucial tool for accelerating the development of autonomous vehicles. Making simulation realistic requires models of the human road users who interact with such cars. Such models can be obtained by applying learning from demonstration (LfD) to trajectories observed by cars already on the road. However, existing LfD methods are typically insufficient, yielding policies that frequently collide or drive off the road. To address this problem, we propose Symphony, which greatly improves realism by combining conventional policies with a parallel beam search. The beam search refines these policies on the fly by pruning branches that are unfavourably evaluated by a discriminator. However, it can also harm diversity, i.e., how well the agents cover the entire distribution of realistic behaviour, as pruning can encourage mode collapse. Symphony addresses this issue with a hierarchical approach, factoring agent behaviour into goal generation and goal conditioning. The use of such goals ensures that agent diversity neither disappears during adversarial training nor is pruned away by the beam search. Experiments on both proprietary and open Waymo datasets confirm that Symphony agents learn more realistic and diverse behaviour than several baselines.

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