Discrete Contrastive Learning for Diffusion Policies in Autonomous Driving

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Main Authors: Kujanpää, Kalle, Baimukashev, Daulet, Munir, Farzeen, Azam, Shoaib, Kucner, Tomasz Piotr, Pajarinen, Joni, Kyrki, Ville
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Published: 2025
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author Kujanpää, Kalle
Baimukashev, Daulet
Munir, Farzeen
Azam, Shoaib
Kucner, Tomasz Piotr
Pajarinen, Joni
Kyrki, Ville
author_facet Kujanpää, Kalle
Baimukashev, Daulet
Munir, Farzeen
Azam, Shoaib
Kucner, Tomasz Piotr
Pajarinen, Joni
Kyrki, Ville
contents Learning to perform accurate and rich simulations of human driving behaviors from data for autonomous vehicle testing remains challenging due to human driving styles' high diversity and variance. We address this challenge by proposing a novel approach that leverages contrastive learning to extract a dictionary of driving styles from pre-existing human driving data. We discretize these styles with quantization, and the styles are used to learn a conditional diffusion policy for simulating human drivers. Our empirical evaluation confirms that the behaviors generated by our approach are both safer and more human-like than those of the machine-learning-based baseline methods. We believe this has the potential to enable higher realism and more effective techniques for evaluating and improving the performance of autonomous vehicles.
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spellingShingle Discrete Contrastive Learning for Diffusion Policies in Autonomous Driving
Kujanpää, Kalle
Baimukashev, Daulet
Munir, Farzeen
Azam, Shoaib
Kucner, Tomasz Piotr
Pajarinen, Joni
Kyrki, Ville
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Learning to perform accurate and rich simulations of human driving behaviors from data for autonomous vehicle testing remains challenging due to human driving styles' high diversity and variance. We address this challenge by proposing a novel approach that leverages contrastive learning to extract a dictionary of driving styles from pre-existing human driving data. We discretize these styles with quantization, and the styles are used to learn a conditional diffusion policy for simulating human drivers. Our empirical evaluation confirms that the behaviors generated by our approach are both safer and more human-like than those of the machine-learning-based baseline methods. We believe this has the potential to enable higher realism and more effective techniques for evaluating and improving the performance of autonomous vehicles.
title Discrete Contrastive Learning for Diffusion Policies in Autonomous Driving
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05229