Evaluation as Evolution: Transforming Adversarial Diffusion into Closed-Loop Curricula for Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2604.07378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous vehicles in interactive traffic environments are often limited by the scarcity of safety-critical tail events in static datasets, which biases learned policies toward average-case behaviors and reduces robustness. Existing evaluation methods attempt to address this through adversarial stress testing, but are predominantly open-loop and post-hoc, making it difficult to incorporate discovered failures back into the training process. We introduce Evaluation as Evolution ($E^2$), a closed-loop framework that transforms adversarial generation from a […]