BridgeDrive: Diffusion Bridge Policy for Closed-Loop Trajectory Planning in Autonomous Driving

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23589v1
• Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2025 02:47:12 GMT
• Title: BridgeDrive: Diffusion Bridge Policy for Closed-Loop Trajectory Planning in Autonomous Driving
• Authors: Shu Liu, Wenlin Chen, Weihao Li, Zheng Wang, Lijin Yang, Jianing Huang, Yipin Zhang, Zhongzhan Huang, Ze Cheng, Hao Yang,
• Abstract summary: BridgeDrive is a novel anchor-guided diffusion bridge policy for closed-loop trajectory planning.<n>We achieve state-of-the-art performance on the Bench2Drive benchmark, improving the success rate by 5% over prior arts.
• Score: 29.832781649644414
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Diffusion-based planners have shown great promise for autonomous driving due to their ability to capture multi-modal driving behaviors. However, guiding these models effectively in reactive, closed-loop environments remains a significant challenge. Simple conditioning often fails to provide sufficient guidance in complex and dynamic driving scenarios. Recent work attempts to use typical expert driving behaviors (i.e., anchors) to guide diffusion models but relies on a truncated schedule, which introduces theoretical inconsistencies and can compromise performance. To address this, we introduce BridgeDrive, a novel anchor-guided diffusion bridge policy for closed-loop trajectory planning. Our approach provides a principled diffusion framework that effectively translates anchors into fine-grained trajectory plans, appropriately responding to varying traffic conditions. Our planner is compatible with efficient ODE solvers, a critical factor for real-time autonomous driving deployment. We achieve state-of-the-art performance on the Bench2Drive benchmark, improving the success rate by 5% over prior arts.

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