自動運転のための視覚言語モデルを用いた局所適合安全モニタリング
Localized Conformal Safety Monitoring with Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving
凍結した視覚言語モデルの予測を、シーンに応じた局所的な適合予測で確率的に校正し、衝突を引き起こす軌道の検出率を大幅に向上させた。
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著者: Luís Marques, Rong Fang, Disha Kamale, Dmitry Berenson
分類: cs.RO, cs.LG
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Monitoring planned driving trajectories requires accurately estimating the collision likelihood with actors whose motion is itself impacted by the ego motion. Existing classical approaches are often limited by the quality of their forecasting model. Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown promise in reasoning about the consequences of high-level actions, yet their approximate predictions are unsuitable for safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving. Conformal prediction (CP) has emerged as a data-driven framework for quantifying the uncertainty of black-box model predictions. We propose Split Label-Localized Conformal Prediction (SLLCP), a post-hoc calibration layer over frozen VLMs that transforms their unreliable predictions into probabilistically calibrated safety prediction sets. We consider how the ability to estimate safety can depend on the observed driving scene and introduce a localized procedure that upweights relevant past experience when calculating uncertainty thresholds. We provide label-conditional finite-sample distribution-free coverage under exchangeability. Evaluated over 15k CARLA trajectories from unseen scenarios, SLLCP correctly flags 89.6% of collision-causing trajectories with a Qwen backbone and 88.4% with a Cosmos backbone, while the base VLMs only flagged 4.6% and 39.1% of the collision-causing trajectories, respectively. These results indicate that local, label-conditional calibration can reduce missed unsafe trajectories.