Exploring the Causality of End-to-End Autonomous Driving

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06546v2
• Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:52:15 GMT
• Title: Exploring the Causality of End-to-End Autonomous Driving
• Authors: Jiankun Li, Hao Li, Jiangjiang Liu, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Fan Wang, Jizhou Huang, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang,
• Abstract summary: We propose a comprehensive approach to explore and analyze the causality of end-to-end autonomous driving. Our work is the first to unveil the mystery of end-to-end autonomous driving and turn the black box into a white one.
• Score: 57.631400236930375
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Deep learning-based models are widely deployed in autonomous driving areas, especially the increasingly noticed end-to-end solutions. However, the black-box property of these models raises concerns about their trustworthiness and safety for autonomous driving, and how to debug the causality has become a pressing concern. Despite some existing research on the explainability of autonomous driving, there is currently no systematic solution to help researchers debug and identify the key factors that lead to the final predicted action of end-to-end autonomous driving. In this work, we propose a comprehensive approach to explore and analyze the causality of end-to-end autonomous driving. First, we validate the essential information that the final planning depends on by using controlled variables and counterfactual interventions for qualitative analysis. Then, we quantitatively assess the factors influencing model decisions by visualizing and statistically analyzing the response of key model inputs. Finally, based on the comprehensive study of the multi-factorial end-to-end autonomous driving system, we have developed a strong baseline and a tool for exploring causality in the close-loop simulator CARLA. It leverages the essential input sources to obtain a well-designed model, resulting in highly competitive capabilities. As far as we know, our work is the first to unveil the mystery of end-to-end autonomous driving and turn the black box into a white one. Thorough close-loop experiments demonstrate that our method can be applied to end-to-end autonomous driving solutions for causality debugging. Code will be available at https://github.com/bdvisl/DriveInsight.

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