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Main Authors: Li, Shihao, Ye, Naisheng, Li, Tianyu, Chitta, Kashyap, An, Tuo, Su, Peng, Wang, Boyang, Liu, Haiou, Lv, Chen, Li, Hongyang
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07661
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author Li, Shihao
Ye, Naisheng
Li, Tianyu
Chitta, Kashyap
An, Tuo
Su, Peng
Wang, Boyang
Liu, Haiou
Lv, Chen
Li, Hongyang
author_facet Li, Shihao
Ye, Naisheng
Li, Tianyu
Chitta, Kashyap
An, Tuo
Su, Peng
Wang, Boyang
Liu, Haiou
Lv, Chen
Li, Hongyang
contents Realistic and diverse multi-agent driving scenes are crucial for evaluating autonomous vehicles, but safety-critical events which are essential for this task are rare and underrepresented in driving datasets. Data-driven scene generation offers a low-cost alternative by synthesizing complex traffic behaviors from existing driving logs. However, existing models often lack controllability or yield samples that violate physical or social constraints, limiting their usability. We present OMEGA, an optimization-guided, training-free framework that enforces structural consistency and interaction awareness during diffusion-based sampling from a scene generation model. OMEGA re-anchors each reverse diffusion step via constrained optimization, steering the generation towards physically plausible and behaviorally coherent trajectories. Building on this framework, we formulate ego-attacker interactions as a game-theoretic optimization in the distribution space, approximating Nash equilibria to generate realistic, safety-critical adversarial scenarios. Experiments on nuPlan and Waymo show that OMEGA improves generation realism, consistency, and controllability, increasing the ratio of physically and behaviorally valid scenes from 32.35% to 72.27% for free exploration capabilities, and from 11% to 80% for controllability-focused generation. Our approach can also generate $5\times$ more near-collision frames with a time-to-collision under three seconds while maintaining the overall scene realism.
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spellingShingle Optimization-Guided Diffusion for Interactive Scene Generation
Li, Shihao
Ye, Naisheng
Li, Tianyu
Chitta, Kashyap
An, Tuo
Su, Peng
Wang, Boyang
Liu, Haiou
Lv, Chen
Li, Hongyang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Realistic and diverse multi-agent driving scenes are crucial for evaluating autonomous vehicles, but safety-critical events which are essential for this task are rare and underrepresented in driving datasets. Data-driven scene generation offers a low-cost alternative by synthesizing complex traffic behaviors from existing driving logs. However, existing models often lack controllability or yield samples that violate physical or social constraints, limiting their usability. We present OMEGA, an optimization-guided, training-free framework that enforces structural consistency and interaction awareness during diffusion-based sampling from a scene generation model. OMEGA re-anchors each reverse diffusion step via constrained optimization, steering the generation towards physically plausible and behaviorally coherent trajectories. Building on this framework, we formulate ego-attacker interactions as a game-theoretic optimization in the distribution space, approximating Nash equilibria to generate realistic, safety-critical adversarial scenarios. Experiments on nuPlan and Waymo show that OMEGA improves generation realism, consistency, and controllability, increasing the ratio of physically and behaviorally valid scenes from 32.35% to 72.27% for free exploration capabilities, and from 11% to 80% for controllability-focused generation. Our approach can also generate $5\times$ more near-collision frames with a time-to-collision under three seconds while maintaining the overall scene realism.
title Optimization-Guided Diffusion for Interactive Scene Generation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07661