A survey on safety-critical driving scenario generation—A methodological perspective

W Ding, C Xu, M Arief, H Lin, B Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous driving systems have witnessed significant development during the past years
thanks to the advance in machine learning-enabled sensing and decision-making …

Dataset interfaces: Diagnosing model failures using controllable counterfactual generation

J Vendrow, S Jain, L Engstrom, A Madry - arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.07865, 2023 - arxiv.org
Distribution shift is a major source of failure for machine learning models. However,
evaluating model reliability under distribution shift can be challenging, especially since it …

3db: A framework for debugging computer vision models

G Leclerc, H Salman, A Ilyas… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We introduce 3DB: an extendable, unified framework for testing and debugging vision
models using photorealistic simulation. We demonstrate, through a wide range of use cases …

Causalaf: Causal autoregressive flow for safety-critical driving scenario generation

W Ding, H Lin, B Li, D Zhao - Conference on robot learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Generating safety-critical scenarios, which are crucial yet difficult to collect, provides an
effective way to evaluate the robustness of autonomous driving systems. However, the …

SoK: Machine learning governance

V Chandrasekaran, H Jia, A Thudi, A Travers… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The application of machine learning (ML) in computer systems introduces not only many
benefits but also risks to society. In this paper, we develop the concept of ML governance to …

Enhancing Autonomous Vehicle Training with Language Model Integration and Critical Scenario Generation

H Tian, K Reddy, Y Feng, M Quddus, Y Demiris… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper introduces CRITICAL, a novel closed-loop framework for autonomous vehicle
(AV) training and testing. CRITICAL stands out for its ability to generate diverse scenarios …

[PDF][PDF] Semantically adversarial driving scenario generation with explicit knowledge integration

W Ding, H Lin, B Li, KJ Eun, D Zhao - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - openreview.net
Generating adversarial scenarios, which have the potential to fail autonomous driving
systems, provides an effective way to improve the robustness. Extending purely data-driven …

-DkNN: Out-of-Distribution Detection Through Statistical Testing of Deep Representations

A Dziedzic, S Rabanser, M Yaghini, A Ale… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The lack of well-calibrated confidence estimates makes neural networks inadequate in
safety-critical domains such as autonomous driving or healthcare. In these settings, having …

A3d: Studying pretrained representations with programmable datasets

Y Wang, N Mu, D Grandi, N Savva… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Rendered images have been used to debug models, study inductive biases, and
understand transfer learning. To scale up rendered datasets, we construct a pipeline with 40 …

RADIUM: Predicting and Repairing End-to-End Robot Failures using Gradient-Accelerated Sampling

C Dawson, A Parashar, C Fan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.03412, 2024 - arxiv.org
Before autonomous systems can be deployed in safety-critical applications, we must be able
to understand and verify the safety of these systems. For cases where the risk or cost of real …