Sbof: An end-to-end framework for simulative black-box optimization of hybrid perceptive functions

S Roos, J Schmidt, W Stork - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The adaptation of perceptive functions to new tasks or new domains is currently a major
challenge in the field of autonomous driving. Since the creation of manually labeled datasets …

CornerSim: A Virtualization Framework to Generate Realistic Corner-Case Scenarios for Autonomous Driving Perception Testing

A Daoud, C Bunel, M Guériau - Procedia Computer Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Autonomous driving development requires rigorous testing in real-world scenarios,
including adverse weather, unpredictable events, object variations, and sensor limitations …

End-to-end autonomous driving perception with sequential latent representation learning

J Chen, Z Xu, M Tomizuka - 2020 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current autonomous driving systems are composed of a perception system and a decision
system. Both of them are divided into multiple subsystems built up with lots of human …

Global optimization for noisy expensive black-box multi-modal functions via radial basis function surrogate

Y Shen, CA Shoemaker - 2020 Winter Simulation Conference …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study proposes a new surrogate global optimization algorithm that solves problems with
expensive black-box multi-modal objective functions subject to homogeneous evaluation …

Exploring dimensionality reduction techniques for efficient surrogate-assisted optimization

S Ullah, DA Nguyen, H Wang, S Menzel… - 2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Constructing surrogate models of high dimensional optimization problems is challenging
due to the computational complexity involved. This paper empirically investigates the …

PyBADS: Fast and robust black-box optimization in Python

GS Singh, L Acerbi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.15576, 2023 - arxiv.org
PyBADS is a Python implementation of the Bayesian Adaptive Direct Search (BADS)
algorithm for fast and robust black-box optimization (Acerbi and Ma 2017). BADS is an …

Efficient bayesian optimization with deep kernel learning and transformer pre-trained on multiple heterogeneous datasets

W Lyu, S Hu, J Chuai, Z Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.04660, 2023 - arxiv.org
Bayesian optimization (BO) is widely adopted in black-box optimization problems and it
relies on a surrogate model to approximate the black-box response function. With the …

Multi-Fidelity Bayesian Optimization With Across-Task Transferable Max-Value Entropy Search

Y Zhang, S Park, O Simeone - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.09570, 2024 - arxiv.org
In many applications, ranging from logistics to engineering, a designer is faced with a
sequence of optimization tasks for which the objectives are in the form of black-box functions …

Towards Scenario-and Capability-Driven Dataset Development and Evaluation: An Approach in the Context of Mapless Automated Driving

F Grün, M Nolte, M Maurer - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.19656, 2024 - arxiv.org
The foundational role of datasets in defining the capabilities of deep learning models has
led to their rapid proliferation. At the same time, published research focusing on the process …

Evaluating validity of synthetic data in perception tasks for autonomous vehicles

D Talwar, S Guruswamy, N Ravipati… - 2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicles have the potential to completely upend the way we transport today,
however deploying them safely at scale is not an easy task. Any autonomous driving system …