Incorporating System-level Safety Requirements in Perception Models via Reinforcement Learning

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Autores principales: Fan, Weisi, Lane, Jesse, Liu, Qisai, Sarkar, Soumik, Wongpiromsarn, Tichakorn
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author Fan, Weisi
Lane, Jesse
Liu, Qisai
Sarkar, Soumik
Wongpiromsarn, Tichakorn
author_facet Fan, Weisi
Lane, Jesse
Liu, Qisai
Sarkar, Soumik
Wongpiromsarn, Tichakorn
contents Perception components in autonomous systems are often developed and optimized independently of downstream decision-making and control components, relying on established performance metrics like accuracy, precision, and recall. Traditional loss functions, such as cross-entropy loss and negative log-likelihood, focus on reducing misclassification errors but fail to consider their impact on system-level safety, overlooking the varying severities of system-level failures caused by these errors. To address this limitation, we propose a novel training paradigm that augments the perception component with an understanding of system-level safety objectives. Central to our approach is the translation of system-level safety requirements, formally specified using the rulebook formalism, into safety scores. These scores are then incorporated into the reward function of a reinforcement learning framework for fine-tuning perception models with system-level safety objectives. Simulation results demonstrate that models trained with this approach outperform baseline perception models in terms of system-level safety.
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spellingShingle Incorporating System-level Safety Requirements in Perception Models via Reinforcement Learning
Fan, Weisi
Lane, Jesse
Liu, Qisai
Sarkar, Soumik
Wongpiromsarn, Tichakorn
Robotics
Machine Learning
Perception components in autonomous systems are often developed and optimized independently of downstream decision-making and control components, relying on established performance metrics like accuracy, precision, and recall. Traditional loss functions, such as cross-entropy loss and negative log-likelihood, focus on reducing misclassification errors but fail to consider their impact on system-level safety, overlooking the varying severities of system-level failures caused by these errors. To address this limitation, we propose a novel training paradigm that augments the perception component with an understanding of system-level safety objectives. Central to our approach is the translation of system-level safety requirements, formally specified using the rulebook formalism, into safety scores. These scores are then incorporated into the reward function of a reinforcement learning framework for fine-tuning perception models with system-level safety objectives. Simulation results demonstrate that models trained with this approach outperform baseline perception models in terms of system-level safety.
title Incorporating System-level Safety Requirements in Perception Models via Reinforcement Learning
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02951