Discrete Contrastive Learning for Diffusion Policies in Autonomous Driving

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05229v1
• Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2025 08:26:04 GMT
• Title: Discrete Contrastive Learning for Diffusion Policies in Autonomous Driving
• Authors: Kalle Kujanpää, Daulet Baimukashev, Farzeen Munir, Shoaib Azam, Tomasz Piotr Kucner, Joni Pajarinen, Ville Kyrki,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel approach that leverages contrastive learning to extract a dictionary of driving styles from pre-existing human driving data.<n>Our empirical evaluation confirms that the behaviors generated by our approach are both safer and more human-like than those of the machine-learning-based baseline methods.
• Score: 18.624545462468642
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Learning to perform accurate and rich simulations of human driving behaviors from data for autonomous vehicle testing remains challenging due to human driving styles' high diversity and variance. We address this challenge by proposing a novel approach that leverages contrastive learning to extract a dictionary of driving styles from pre-existing human driving data. We discretize these styles with quantization, and the styles are used to learn a conditional diffusion policy for simulating human drivers. Our empirical evaluation confirms that the behaviors generated by our approach are both safer and more human-like than those of the machine-learning-based baseline methods. We believe this has the potential to enable higher realism and more effective techniques for evaluating and improving the performance of autonomous vehicles.

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