BehaviorGPT: Smart Agent Simulation for Autonomous Driving with Next-Patch Prediction

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Main Authors: Zhou, Zikang, Hu, Haibo, Chen, Xinhong, Wang, Jianping, Guan, Nan, Wu, Kui, Li, Yung-Hui, Huang, Yu-Kai, Xue, Chun Jason
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author Zhou, Zikang
Hu, Haibo
Chen, Xinhong
Wang, Jianping
Guan, Nan
Wu, Kui
Li, Yung-Hui
Huang, Yu-Kai
Xue, Chun Jason
author_facet Zhou, Zikang
Hu, Haibo
Chen, Xinhong
Wang, Jianping
Guan, Nan
Wu, Kui
Li, Yung-Hui
Huang, Yu-Kai
Xue, Chun Jason
contents Simulating realistic behaviors of traffic agents is pivotal for efficiently validating the safety of autonomous driving systems. Existing data-driven simulators primarily use an encoder-decoder architecture to encode the historical trajectories before decoding the future. However, the heterogeneity between encoders and decoders complicates the models, and the manual separation of historical and future trajectories leads to low data utilization. Given these limitations, we propose BehaviorGPT, a homogeneous and fully autoregressive Transformer designed to simulate the sequential behavior of multiple agents. Crucially, our approach discards the traditional separation between "history" and "future" by modeling each time step as the "current" one for motion generation, leading to a simpler, more parameter- and data-efficient agent simulator. We further introduce the Next-Patch Prediction Paradigm (NP3) to mitigate the negative effects of autoregressive modeling, in which models are trained to reason at the patch level of trajectories and capture long-range spatial-temporal interactions. Despite having merely 3M model parameters, BehaviorGPT won first place in the 2024 Waymo Open Sim Agents Challenge with a realism score of 0.7473 and a minADE score of 1.4147, demonstrating its exceptional performance in traffic agent simulation.
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spellingShingle BehaviorGPT: Smart Agent Simulation for Autonomous Driving with Next-Patch Prediction
Zhou, Zikang
Hu, Haibo
Chen, Xinhong
Wang, Jianping
Guan, Nan
Wu, Kui
Li, Yung-Hui
Huang, Yu-Kai
Xue, Chun Jason
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Robotics
Simulating realistic behaviors of traffic agents is pivotal for efficiently validating the safety of autonomous driving systems. Existing data-driven simulators primarily use an encoder-decoder architecture to encode the historical trajectories before decoding the future. However, the heterogeneity between encoders and decoders complicates the models, and the manual separation of historical and future trajectories leads to low data utilization. Given these limitations, we propose BehaviorGPT, a homogeneous and fully autoregressive Transformer designed to simulate the sequential behavior of multiple agents. Crucially, our approach discards the traditional separation between "history" and "future" by modeling each time step as the "current" one for motion generation, leading to a simpler, more parameter- and data-efficient agent simulator. We further introduce the Next-Patch Prediction Paradigm (NP3) to mitigate the negative effects of autoregressive modeling, in which models are trained to reason at the patch level of trajectories and capture long-range spatial-temporal interactions. Despite having merely 3M model parameters, BehaviorGPT won first place in the 2024 Waymo Open Sim Agents Challenge with a realism score of 0.7473 and a minADE score of 1.4147, demonstrating its exceptional performance in traffic agent simulation.
title BehaviorGPT: Smart Agent Simulation for Autonomous Driving with Next-Patch Prediction
topic Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17372