InDRiVE: Intrinsic Disagreement based Reinforcement for Vehicle Exploration through Curiosity Driven Generalized World Model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05573v1
• Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2025 16:56:00 GMT
• Title: InDRiVE: Intrinsic Disagreement based Reinforcement for Vehicle Exploration through Curiosity Driven Generalized World Model
• Authors: Feeza Khan Khanzada, Jaerock Kwon,
• Abstract summary: In this paper, we propose InDRiVE (Intrinsic Disagreement based Reinforcement for Vehicle Exploration) as a model-based Reinforcement Learning framework.<n>By training an ensemble of world models, the agent actively explores high uncertainty regions of environments without task specific feedback.<n> Experimental results in both seen and unseen environments demonstrate that InDRiVE achieves higher success rates and fewer infractions compared to DreamerV2 and DreamerV3 baselines.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Model-based Reinforcement Learning (MBRL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for autonomous driving, where data efficiency and robustness are critical. Yet, existing solutions often rely on carefully crafted, task specific extrinsic rewards, limiting generalization to new tasks or environments. In this paper, we propose InDRiVE (Intrinsic Disagreement based Reinforcement for Vehicle Exploration), a method that leverages purely intrinsic, disagreement based rewards within a Dreamer based MBRL framework. By training an ensemble of world models, the agent actively explores high uncertainty regions of environments without any task specific feedback. This approach yields a task agnostic latent representation, allowing for rapid zero shot or few shot fine tuning on downstream driving tasks such as lane following and collision avoidance. Experimental results in both seen and unseen environments demonstrate that InDRiVE achieves higher success rates and fewer infractions compared to DreamerV2 and DreamerV3 baselines despite using significantly fewer training steps. Our findings highlight the effectiveness of purely intrinsic exploration for learning robust vehicle control behaviors, paving the way for more scalable and adaptable autonomous driving systems.

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