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This research addresses critical bottlenecks in federated learning for autonomous driving by introducing active client selection strategies that account for scene uncertainty and topological complexity. By prioritizing informative clients from diverse environments, the proposed methods accelerate convergence and enhance generalization across heterogeneous datasets like Argoverse. The work demonstrates a significant step forward in making distributed training of trajectory prediction models more robust and efficient without relying on centralized data aggregation.
Active Client Selection in Federated Trajectory Prediction with Uncertainty-Awareness and Heterogeneous Complexity
arXiv:2609.29600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training sequence models such as transformers is now standard for autonomous vehicle trajectory prediction, yet assembling high-quality centralized datasets remains challenging because real-world trajectories are fragmented across regions and vehicles. Federated Learning (FL) offers a natural alternative, but faces two distinctive challenges: high scene uncertainty arising from trajectory or map ambiguity, and cross-scene complexity heterogeneity caused by diverse map topology, traffic density, agent composition, and driving behaviors. We propose a family of active client selection methods that progressively incorporate awareness of scene uncertainty and complexity to prioritize informative clients. Our uncertainty-aware selectors use per-client negative log-likelihood under an uncertainty-aware global objective and estimated aleatoric uncertainty. We further develop a selector that jointly considers scene complexity and uncertainty, motivated by the intuition that knowledge from complex scenes can transfer to easier ones. Experiments on Argoverse show that federated trajectory prediction outperforms locally trained models. Uncertainty-aware selection accelerates convergence and improves minADE, minFDE, and MR. Under strong scene-complexity heterogeneity, our joint complexity- and uncertainty-aware selector achieves the best generalization and further accelerates convergence, demonstrating the benefit of prioritizing complex and informative scenes.
Abstract:Training sequence models such as transformers is now standard for autonomous vehicle trajectory prediction, yet assembling high-quality centralized datasets remains challenging because real-world trajectories are fragmented across regions and vehicles. Federated Learning (FL) offers a natural alternative, but faces two distinctive challenges: high scene uncertainty arising from trajectory or map ambiguity, and cross-scene complexity heterogeneity caused by diverse map topology, traffic density, agent composition, and driving behaviors. We propose a family of active client selection methods that progressively incorporate awareness of scene uncertainty and complexity to prioritize informative clients. Our uncertainty-aware selectors use per-client negative log-likelihood under an uncertainty-aware global objective and estimated aleatoric uncertainty. We further develop a selector that jointly considers scene complexity and uncertainty, motivated by the intuition that knowledge from complex scenes can transfer to easier ones. Experiments on Argoverse show that federated trajectory prediction outperforms locally trained models. Uncertainty-aware selection accelerates convergence and improves minADE, minFDE, and MR. Under strong scene-complexity heterogeneity, our joint complexity- and uncertainty-aware selector achieves the best generalization and further accelerates convergence, demonstrating the benefit of prioritizing complex and informative scenes.
Machine Learning (cs.LG)
arXiv:2609.29600 [cs.LG]
(or arXiv:2609.29600v1 [cs.LG] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.29600 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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