Scenario Dreamer: Vectorized Latent Diffusion for Generating Driving Simulation Environments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22496v1
• Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:03:41 GMT
• Title: Scenario Dreamer: Vectorized Latent Diffusion for Generating Driving Simulation Environments
• Authors: Luke Rowe, Roger Girgis, Anthony Gosselin, Liam Paull, Christopher Pal, Felix Heide,
• Abstract summary: We introduce Scenario Dreamer, a fully data-driven generative simulator for autonomous vehicle planning.<n>It generates both the initial traffic scene - comprising a lane graph and agent bounding boxes - and closed-loop agent behaviours.<n>Case study shows that Scenario Dreamer achieves superior generation quality with around 2x fewer parameters, 6x lower generation, and 10x training hours compared to the strongest baseline.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We introduce Scenario Dreamer, a fully data-driven generative simulator for autonomous vehicle planning that generates both the initial traffic scene - comprising a lane graph and agent bounding boxes - and closed-loop agent behaviours. Existing methods for generating driving simulation environments encode the initial traffic scene as a rasterized image and, as such, require parameter-heavy networks that perform unnecessary computation due to many empty pixels in the rasterized scene. Moreover, we find that existing methods that employ rule-based agent behaviours lack diversity and realism. Scenario Dreamer instead employs a novel vectorized latent diffusion model for initial scene generation that directly operates on the vectorized scene elements and an autoregressive Transformer for data-driven agent behaviour simulation. Scenario Dreamer additionally supports scene extrapolation via diffusion inpainting, enabling the generation of unbounded simulation environments. Extensive experiments show that Scenario Dreamer outperforms existing generative simulators in realism and efficiency: the vectorized scene-generation base model achieves superior generation quality with around 2x fewer parameters, 6x lower generation latency, and 10x fewer GPU training hours compared to the strongest baseline. We confirm its practical utility by showing that reinforcement learning planning agents are more challenged in Scenario Dreamer environments than traditional non-generative simulation environments, especially on long and adversarial driving environments.

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