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Robust Planning for Autonomous Driving via Mixed Adversarial Diffusion Predictions

Robotics 2025-05-20 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

We describe a robust planning method for autonomous driving that mixes normal and adversarial agent predictions output by a diffusion model trained for motion prediction. We first train a diffusion model to learn an unbiased distribution of normal agent behaviors. We then generate a distribution of adversarial predictions by biasing the diffusion model at test time to generate predictions that are likely to collide with a candidate plan. We score plans using expected cost with respect to a mixture distribution of normal and adversarial predictions, leading to a planner that is robust against adversarial behaviors but not overly conservative when agents behave normally. Unlike current approaches, we do not use risk measures that over-weight adversarial behaviors while placing little to no weight on low-cost normal behaviors or use hard safety constraints that may not be appropriate for all driving scenarios. We show the effectiveness of our method on single-agent and multi-agent jaywalking scenarios as well as a red light violation scenario.

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@article{arxiv.2505.12327,
  title  = {Robust Planning for Autonomous Driving via Mixed Adversarial Diffusion Predictions},
  author = {Albert Zhao and Stefano Soatto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.12327},
  year   = {2025}
}

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IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025

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