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Sifa Zheng

7 accepted papers

2026

ForSim: Stepwise Forward Simulation for Traffic Policy Fine-Tuning

ICRA 2026poster

As the foundation of closed-loop training and evaluation in autonomous driving, traffic simulation still faces two fundamental challenges: covariate shift introduced by open-loop imitation learning and limited capacity to reflect the multimodal behaviors observed in real-world traffic. Although rece…

2025

SparseDrive: End-to-End Autonomous Driving via Sparse Scene Representation

ICRA 2025

The well-established modular autonomous driving system is decoupled into different standalone tasks, e.g. perception, prediction and planning, suffering from information loss and error accumulation across modules. In contrast, end-to-end paradigms unify multi-tasks into a fully differentiable framew

Cited by 187SourcecodeScholar
2024

FREA: Feasibility-Guided Generation of Safety-Critical Scenarios with Reasonable Adversariality

CoRL 2024poster

Generating safety-critical scenarios, which are essential yet difficult to collect at scale, offers an effective method to evaluate the robustness of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Existing methods focus on optimizing adversariality while preserving the naturalness of scenarios, aiming to achieve a bala…

Cited by 3SourceScholar
2024

Synthesize Efficient Safety Certificates for Learning-Based Safe Control using Magnitude Regularization

ICRA 2024poster

Safety certificates based on energy functions can provide demonstrable safety for complex robotic systems. However, all recent studies on learning-based energy function synthesis only consider the feasibility of the control policy, which might cause over-conservativeness and even fail to achieve the…

Cited by 2SourceScholar
2023

What Truly Matters in Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Driving?

NeurIPS 2023poster

Trajectory prediction plays a vital role in the performance of autonomous driving systems, and prediction accuracy, such as average displacement error (ADE) or final displacement error (FDE), is widely used as a performance metric. However, a significant disparity exists between the accuracy of pred…

2022

Cola-HRL: Continuous-Lattice Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving

IROS 2022poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising performance in autonomous driving applications in recent years. The early end-to-end RL method is usually unexplainable and fails to generate stable actions, while the hierarchical RL (HRL) method can tackle the above issues by dividing complex problem…

Cited by 17SourceScholar
2021

Model-based Constrained Reinforcement Learning using Generalized Control Barrier Function

IROS 2021poster

Model information can be used to predict future trajectories, so it has huge potential to avoid dangerous regions when applying reinforcement learning (RL) on real-world tasks, like autonomous driving. However, existing studies mostly use model-free constrained RL, which causes inevitable constraint…

Cited by 86SourcecodeScholar