TrajFlow: Multi-modal Motion Prediction via Flow Matching

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Main Authors: Yan, Qi, Zhang, Brian, Zhang, Yutong, Yang, Daniel, White, Joshua, Chen, Di, Liu, Jiachao, Liu, Langechuan, Zhuang, Binnan, Shi, Shaoshuai, Liao, Renjie
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author Yan, Qi
Zhang, Brian
Zhang, Yutong
Yang, Daniel
White, Joshua
Chen, Di
Liu, Jiachao
Liu, Langechuan
Zhuang, Binnan
Shi, Shaoshuai
Liao, Renjie
author_facet Yan, Qi
Zhang, Brian
Zhang, Yutong
Yang, Daniel
White, Joshua
Chen, Di
Liu, Jiachao
Liu, Langechuan
Zhuang, Binnan
Shi, Shaoshuai
Liao, Renjie
contents Efficient and accurate motion prediction is crucial for ensuring safety and informed decision-making in autonomous driving, particularly under dynamic real-world conditions that necessitate multi-modal forecasts. We introduce TrajFlow, a novel flow matching-based motion prediction framework that addresses the scalability and efficiency challenges of existing generative trajectory prediction methods. Unlike conventional generative approaches that employ i.i.d. sampling and require multiple inference passes to capture diverse outcomes, TrajFlow predicts multiple plausible future trajectories in a single pass, significantly reducing computational overhead while maintaining coherence across predictions. Moreover, we propose a ranking loss based on the Plackett-Luce distribution to improve uncertainty estimation of predicted trajectories. Additionally, we design a self-conditioning training technique that reuses the model's own predictions to construct noisy inputs during a second forward pass, thereby improving generalization and accelerating inference. Extensive experiments on the large-scale Waymo Open Motion Dataset (WOMD) demonstrate that TrajFlow achieves state-of-the-art performance across various key metrics, underscoring its effectiveness for safety-critical autonomous driving applications. The code and other details are available on the project website https://traj-flow.github.io/.
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spellingShingle TrajFlow: Multi-modal Motion Prediction via Flow Matching
Yan, Qi
Zhang, Brian
Zhang, Yutong
Yang, Daniel
White, Joshua
Chen, Di
Liu, Jiachao
Liu, Langechuan
Zhuang, Binnan
Shi, Shaoshuai
Liao, Renjie
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Efficient and accurate motion prediction is crucial for ensuring safety and informed decision-making in autonomous driving, particularly under dynamic real-world conditions that necessitate multi-modal forecasts. We introduce TrajFlow, a novel flow matching-based motion prediction framework that addresses the scalability and efficiency challenges of existing generative trajectory prediction methods. Unlike conventional generative approaches that employ i.i.d. sampling and require multiple inference passes to capture diverse outcomes, TrajFlow predicts multiple plausible future trajectories in a single pass, significantly reducing computational overhead while maintaining coherence across predictions. Moreover, we propose a ranking loss based on the Plackett-Luce distribution to improve uncertainty estimation of predicted trajectories. Additionally, we design a self-conditioning training technique that reuses the model's own predictions to construct noisy inputs during a second forward pass, thereby improving generalization and accelerating inference. Extensive experiments on the large-scale Waymo Open Motion Dataset (WOMD) demonstrate that TrajFlow achieves state-of-the-art performance across various key metrics, underscoring its effectiveness for safety-critical autonomous driving applications. The code and other details are available on the project website https://traj-flow.github.io/.
title TrajFlow: Multi-modal Motion Prediction via Flow Matching
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08541