Differentiable Semantic Meta-Learning Framework for Long-Tail Motion Forecasting in Autonomous Driving
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| author | Rao, Bin Wang, Chengyue Liao, Haicheng Wang, Qianfang Guan, Yanchen Zhang, Jiaxun Liu, Xingcheng Zhu, Meixin Wang, Kanye Ye Li, Zhenning |
| author_facet | Rao, Bin Wang, Chengyue Liao, Haicheng Wang, Qianfang Guan, Yanchen Zhang, Jiaxun Liu, Xingcheng Zhu, Meixin Wang, Kanye Ye Li, Zhenning |
| contents | Long-tail motion forecasting is a core challenge for autonomous driving, where rare yet safety-critical events-such as abrupt maneuvers and dense multi-agent interactions-dominate real-world risk. Existing approaches struggle in these scenarios because they rely on either non-interpretable clustering or model-dependent error heuristics, providing neither a differentiable notion of "tailness" nor a mechanism for rapid adaptation. We propose SAML, a Semantic-Aware Meta-Learning framework that introduces the first differentiable definition of tailness for motion forecasting. SAML quantifies motion rarity via semantically meaningful intrinsic (kinematic, geometric, temporal) and interactive (local and global risk) properties, which are fused by a Bayesian Tail Perceiver into a continuous, uncertainty-aware Tail Index. This Tail Index drives a meta-memory adaptation module that couples a dynamic prototype memory with an MAML-based cognitive set mechanism, enabling fast adaptation to rare or evolving patterns. Experiments on nuScenes, NGSIM, and HighD show that SAML achieves state-of-the-art overall accuracy and substantial gains on top 1-5% worst-case events, while maintaining high efficiency. Our findings highlight semantic meta-learning as a pathway toward robust and safety-critical motion forecasting. |
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| spellingShingle | Differentiable Semantic Meta-Learning Framework for Long-Tail Motion Forecasting in Autonomous Driving Rao, Bin Wang, Chengyue Liao, Haicheng Wang, Qianfang Guan, Yanchen Zhang, Jiaxun Liu, Xingcheng Zhu, Meixin Wang, Kanye Ye Li, Zhenning Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science Long-tail motion forecasting is a core challenge for autonomous driving, where rare yet safety-critical events-such as abrupt maneuvers and dense multi-agent interactions-dominate real-world risk. Existing approaches struggle in these scenarios because they rely on either non-interpretable clustering or model-dependent error heuristics, providing neither a differentiable notion of "tailness" nor a mechanism for rapid adaptation. We propose SAML, a Semantic-Aware Meta-Learning framework that introduces the first differentiable definition of tailness for motion forecasting. SAML quantifies motion rarity via semantically meaningful intrinsic (kinematic, geometric, temporal) and interactive (local and global risk) properties, which are fused by a Bayesian Tail Perceiver into a continuous, uncertainty-aware Tail Index. This Tail Index drives a meta-memory adaptation module that couples a dynamic prototype memory with an MAML-based cognitive set mechanism, enabling fast adaptation to rare or evolving patterns. Experiments on nuScenes, NGSIM, and HighD show that SAML achieves state-of-the-art overall accuracy and substantial gains on top 1-5% worst-case events, while maintaining high efficiency. Our findings highlight semantic meta-learning as a pathway toward robust and safety-critical motion forecasting. |
| title | Differentiable Semantic Meta-Learning Framework for Long-Tail Motion Forecasting in Autonomous Driving |
| topic | Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06649 |