TrajEvo: Designing Trajectory Prediction Heuristics via LLM-driven Evolution

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Autores principales: Zhao, Zhikai, Hua, Chuanbo, Berto, Federico, Lee, Kanghoon, Ma, Zihan, Li, Jiachen, Park, Jinkyoo
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author Zhao, Zhikai
Hua, Chuanbo
Berto, Federico
Lee, Kanghoon
Ma, Zihan
Li, Jiachen
Park, Jinkyoo
author_facet Zhao, Zhikai
Hua, Chuanbo
Berto, Federico
Lee, Kanghoon
Ma, Zihan
Li, Jiachen
Park, Jinkyoo
contents Trajectory prediction is a crucial task in modeling human behavior, especially in fields as social robotics and autonomous vehicle navigation. Traditional heuristics based on handcrafted rules often lack accuracy, while recently proposed deep learning approaches suffer from computational cost, lack of explainability, and generalization issues that limit their practical adoption. In this paper, we introduce TrajEvo, a framework that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically design trajectory prediction heuristics. TrajEvo employs an evolutionary algorithm to generate and refine prediction heuristics from past trajectory data. We introduce a Cross-Generation Elite Sampling to promote population diversity and a Statistics Feedback Loop allowing the LLM to analyze alternative predictions. Our evaluations show TrajEvo outperforms previous heuristic methods on the ETH-UCY datasets, and remarkably outperforms both heuristics and deep learning methods when generalizing to the unseen SDD dataset. TrajEvo represents a first step toward automated design of fast, explainable, and generalizable trajectory prediction heuristics. We make our source code publicly available to foster future research at https://github.com/ai4co/trajevo.
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spellingShingle TrajEvo: Designing Trajectory Prediction Heuristics via LLM-driven Evolution
Zhao, Zhikai
Hua, Chuanbo
Berto, Federico
Lee, Kanghoon
Ma, Zihan
Li, Jiachen
Park, Jinkyoo
Artificial Intelligence
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Robotics
Trajectory prediction is a crucial task in modeling human behavior, especially in fields as social robotics and autonomous vehicle navigation. Traditional heuristics based on handcrafted rules often lack accuracy, while recently proposed deep learning approaches suffer from computational cost, lack of explainability, and generalization issues that limit their practical adoption. In this paper, we introduce TrajEvo, a framework that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically design trajectory prediction heuristics. TrajEvo employs an evolutionary algorithm to generate and refine prediction heuristics from past trajectory data. We introduce a Cross-Generation Elite Sampling to promote population diversity and a Statistics Feedback Loop allowing the LLM to analyze alternative predictions. Our evaluations show TrajEvo outperforms previous heuristic methods on the ETH-UCY datasets, and remarkably outperforms both heuristics and deep learning methods when generalizing to the unseen SDD dataset. TrajEvo represents a first step toward automated design of fast, explainable, and generalizable trajectory prediction heuristics. We make our source code publicly available to foster future research at https://github.com/ai4co/trajevo.
title TrajEvo: Designing Trajectory Prediction Heuristics via LLM-driven Evolution
topic Artificial Intelligence
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04480