Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving

4th March 2025, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, United States


About

Welcome to the 2025 Workshop on Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving at AAAI.

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) offer a rich source of high-impact research problems for the machine learning (ML) community; including perception, state estimation, probabilistic modeling, time series forecasting, gesture recognition, robustness guarantees, real-time constraints, user-machine communication, multi-agent planning, and intelligent infrastructure. Further, the interaction between ML subfields towards a common goal of autonomous driving can catalyze interesting inter-field discussions that spark new avenues of research, which this symposium aims to promote. As an application of ML, autonomous driving has the potential to greatly improve society by reducing road accidents, giving independence to those unable to drive, and even inspiring younger generations with tangible examples of ML-based technology clearly visible on local streets. All are welcome to attend! This will be the 8th event in this series. Previous events in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 enjoyed wide participation from both academia and industry.

Attending:
• Attend in person: please register here
• Attend virtually: (TBD if possible)

Speakers

Morning speakers


  • Guy Rosman

    Guy Rosman

    Senior Manager
    Toyota Research Institute

  • Wei Zhan

    Wei Zhan

    Co-Director of Berkeley DeepDrive and Chief Scientist of Applied Intuition

Afternoon speakers


Schedule

Tuesday 4th March 2025. All times are in Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5). Current time is

Time Event Title
09:00 Welcome Welcoming Remarks: Paul Tylkin
09:15 Guy Rosman Guy Rosman Toyota Research Institute Machine Learning for Interactive Driving
09:45 Lightning Talks Lightning Talks: 5 minutes per paper
10:15 Posters and Social Break
11:45 Lunch
13:30 Wei Zhan Wei Zhan Scalable and Generalizable Neural Simulation
14:00 Somil Bansal Somil Bansal Stanford University
14:30 Posters and Social Break
15:15 Ahmed Sadek Ahmed Sadek Qualcomm
15:45 Awards Award Ceremony: Alex Petiushko
16:15 Panel Panel discussion: Guy Rosman, Somil Bansal, Ahmed Sadek, Alex Petiushko, Paul Tylkin (moderator)
17:00 Close Closing Remarks: Paul Tylkin

Papers


Rolling Ahead Diffusion for Traffic Scene Simulation
Yunpeng Liu, Matthew Niedoba, William Harvey, Adam Ścibior, Berend Zwartsenberg, Frank Wood

Teacher-guided Off-road Autonomous Driving
Vedant Mundheda*, Zhouchonghao Wu*, Jeff Schneider

CRASH: Challenging Reinforcement-Learning Based Adversarial Scenarios For Safety Hardening
Amar Kulkarni, Shangtong Zhang, Madhur Behl

From One to the Power of Many: Invariance to Multi-LiDAR Perception from Single-Sensor Datasets
Marc Uecker, J. Marius Zöllner

From Dashcam Videos to Driving Simulations: Stress Testing Automated Vehicles against Rare Events
Yan Miao, Georgios Fainekos, Bardh Hoxha, Hideki Okamoto, Danil Prokhorov, Sayan Mitra

A Spatiotemporal Approach to Tri-Perspective Representation for 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction
Sathira Silva*, Savindu Wannigama*, Gihan Jayatilaka, Muhammad Haris Khan, Roshan Ragel

Location

Room 116
Pennsylvania Convention Center
1101 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19107, United States


Organizers


  • Paul Tylkin

    Paul Tylkin    paul.tylkin@tri.global

    is a Senior Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute.


  • Maximilian Naumann

    Maximilian Naumann    Maximilian.Naumann@de.bosch.com

    is a research engineer and project lead at Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence.


  • Madhumitha Sakth

    Madhumitha Sakth    msakthi@qti.qualcomm.com

    is a senior engineer at Qualcomm.


  • Jiachen Li

    Jiachen Li    jiachen.li@ucr.edu

    is an assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside.


  • Aman Sinha

    Aman Sinha    thisisaman@waymo.com

    is a research scientist at Waymo.


  • Marco Pavone

    Marco Pavone    pavone@stanford.edu

    is an Associate Professor at Stanford University and a Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA.


  • Rowan McAllister

    Rowan McAllister    mcallister@waymo.com

    is a staff research scientist at Waymo.

Program Committee

   We thank those who help make this workshop possible!

 •  Reinis Cimurs, Bosch
 •  Nemanja Djuric, Aurora
 •  Andreas Look, Bosch
 •  Alexander Meade, Waymo
 •  Aleksandr Petiushko, Gatik AI
 •  Toan Tran, Emory University
 •  Akos Utasi, Continental Corporation
 •  Yuping Wang, Waymo
 •  Amir Yazdani, Gatik AI
 •  Chengyuan Zhang, McGill University

Sponsors

We thank Toyota Research Institute and Gatik for generously sponsoring this event.