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Data-Driven Risk Fields for Safer End-to-End Autonomous Driving

arxiv.org/abs/2609.10377

Updated 50 min ago · first seen 11 Sept 2026

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11 Sept 2026
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arXiv
2609.10377
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cs.RO
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Abstract

-cross Abstract: Safety is a fundamental requirement for autonomous driving, yet existing end-to-end driving models still lack explicit risk-aware learning capacities. Existing rule-based risk models provide interpretable safety priors, yet their absolute risk scores depend on handcrafted functions, coefficients, and thresholds. Learning-based risk representations reduce part of this manual design, but their supervision often relies on occupancy-derived labels or heuristic cost values, which may not capture ego-conditioned planning risk. In this paper, we propose DRiF, a data-driven risk-field framework for safer end-to-end autonomous driving. DRiF learns a shared BEV feature with static map segmentation, dynamic risk prediction, and vehicle planning. For dynamic risk learning, DRiF converts rule-based safety priors into pairwise risk labels, and trains the risk field to preserve relative risk ordering instead of regressing handcrafted absolute scores. Experiments on Bench2Drive show that DRiF achieves competitive overall performance, with consistent improvements in driving score, success rate, and collision-related metrics. These results establish relative risk supervision as an effective way to connect explicit safety structure with end-to-end planning. The data and code will be publicly available.

Authors 12

Yuanxin Tian, Zhiyuan Liu, Jinhao Li, Liangfan Zhu, Shuai Wang, Heye Huang, Qingwen Meng, Fang Zhang, Liuzhu Tong, Zhenhua Xu, Wenhao Yu, Jianqiang Wang

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2609.10377

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cs.RO, cs.CV

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cs.RO

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Published
11 Sept 2026

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