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 Yang, Huiwen


SimADFuzz: Simulation-Feedback Fuzz Testing for Autonomous Driving Systems

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Autonomous driving systems (ADS) have achieved remarkable progress in recent years. However, ensuring their safety and reliability remains a critical challenge due to the complexity and uncertainty of driving scenarios. In this paper, we focus on simulation testing for ADS, where generating diverse and effective testing scenarios is a central task. Existing fuzz testing methods face limitations, such as overlooking the temporal and spatial dynamics of scenarios and failing to leverage simulation feedback (e.g., speed, acceleration and heading) to guide scenario selection and mutation. To address these issues, we propose SimADFuzz, a novel framework designed to generate high-quality scenarios that reveal violations in ADS behavior. Specifically, SimADFuzz employs violation prediction models, which evaluate the likelihood of ADS violations, to optimize scenario selection. Moreover, SimADFuzz proposes distance-guided mutation strategies to enhance interactions among vehicles in offspring scenarios, thereby triggering more edge-case behaviors of vehicles. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that SimADFuzz outperforms state-of-the-art fuzzers by identifying 32 more unique violations, including 4 reproducible cases of vehicle-vehicle and vehicle-pedestrian collisions. These results demonstrate SimADFuzz's effectiveness in enhancing the robustness and safety of autonomous driving systems.


Over-the-air Federated Policy Gradient

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In recent years, over-the-air aggregation has been widely considered in large-scale distributed learning, optimization, and sensing. In this paper, we propose the over-the-air federated policy gradient algorithm, where all agents simultaneously broadcast an analog signal carrying local information to a common wireless channel, and a central controller uses the received aggregated waveform to update the policy parameters. We investigate the effect of noise and channel distortion on the convergence of the proposed algorithm, and establish the complexities of communication and sampling for finding an $\epsilon$-approximate stationary point. Finally, we present some simulation results to show the effectiveness of the algorithm.