Deconfounded Lifelong Learning for Autonomous Driving via Dynamic Knowledge Spaces
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| author | Du, Jiayuan Song, Yuebing Zhao, Yiming Pan, Xianghui Lian, Jiawei Lu, Yuchu Wang, Liuyi Liu, Chengju Chen, Qijun |
| author_facet | Du, Jiayuan Song, Yuebing Zhao, Yiming Pan, Xianghui Lian, Jiawei Lu, Yuchu Wang, Liuyi Liu, Chengju Chen, Qijun |
| contents | End-to-End autonomous driving (E2E-AD) systems face challenges in lifelong learning, including catastrophic forgetting, difficulty in knowledge transfer across diverse scenarios, and spurious correlations between unobservable confounders and true driving intents. To address these issues, we propose DeLL, a Deconfounded Lifelong Learning framework that integrates a Dirichlet process mixture model (DPMM) with the front-door adjustment mechanism from causal inference. The DPMM is employed to construct two dynamic knowledge spaces: a trajectory knowledge space for clustering explicit driving behaviors and an implicit feature knowledge space for discovering latent driving abilities. Leveraging the non-parametric Bayesian nature of DPMM, our framework enables adaptive expansion and incremental updating of knowledge without predefining the number of clusters, thereby mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Meanwhile, the front-door adjustment mechanism utilizes the DPMM-derived knowledge as valid mediators to deconfound spurious correlations, such as those induced by sensor noise or environmental changes, and enhances the causal expressiveness of the learned representations. Additionally, we introduce an evolutionary trajectory decoder that enables non-autoregressive planning. To evaluate the lifelong learning performance of E2E-AD, we propose new evaluation protocols and metrics based on Bench2Drive. Extensive evaluations in the closed-loop CARLA simulator demonstrate that our framework significantly improves adaptability to new driving scenarios and overall driving performance, while effectively retaining previous acquired knowledge. |
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| spellingShingle | Deconfounded Lifelong Learning for Autonomous Driving via Dynamic Knowledge Spaces Du, Jiayuan Song, Yuebing Zhao, Yiming Pan, Xianghui Lian, Jiawei Lu, Yuchu Wang, Liuyi Liu, Chengju Chen, Qijun Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Robotics End-to-End autonomous driving (E2E-AD) systems face challenges in lifelong learning, including catastrophic forgetting, difficulty in knowledge transfer across diverse scenarios, and spurious correlations between unobservable confounders and true driving intents. To address these issues, we propose DeLL, a Deconfounded Lifelong Learning framework that integrates a Dirichlet process mixture model (DPMM) with the front-door adjustment mechanism from causal inference. The DPMM is employed to construct two dynamic knowledge spaces: a trajectory knowledge space for clustering explicit driving behaviors and an implicit feature knowledge space for discovering latent driving abilities. Leveraging the non-parametric Bayesian nature of DPMM, our framework enables adaptive expansion and incremental updating of knowledge without predefining the number of clusters, thereby mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Meanwhile, the front-door adjustment mechanism utilizes the DPMM-derived knowledge as valid mediators to deconfound spurious correlations, such as those induced by sensor noise or environmental changes, and enhances the causal expressiveness of the learned representations. Additionally, we introduce an evolutionary trajectory decoder that enables non-autoregressive planning. To evaluate the lifelong learning performance of E2E-AD, we propose new evaluation protocols and metrics based on Bench2Drive. Extensive evaluations in the closed-loop CARLA simulator demonstrate that our framework significantly improves adaptability to new driving scenarios and overall driving performance, while effectively retaining previous acquired knowledge. |
| title | Deconfounded Lifelong Learning for Autonomous Driving via Dynamic Knowledge Spaces |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14354 |