Improving Agent Behaviors with RL Fine-tuning for Autonomous Driving

Zhenghao Peng, Wenjie Luo, Yiren Lu, Tianyi Shen, Cole Gulino +2 more
2/14/2026

No confident code implementation found for this paper. 6 possible matches can be shown below.

Abstract

A major challenge in autonomous vehicle research is modeling agent behaviors, which has critical applications including constructing realistic and reliable simulations for off-board evaluation and forecasting traffic agents motion for onboard planning. While supervised learning has shown success in modeling agents across various domains, these models can suffer from distribution shift when deployed at test-time. In this work, we improve the reliability of agent behaviors by closed-loop fine-tuning of behavior models with reinforcement learning. Our method demonstrates improved overall performance, as well as improved targeted metrics such as collision rate, on the Waymo Open Sim Agents challenge. Additionally, we present a novel policy evaluation benchmark to directly assess the ability of simulated agents to measure the quality of autonomous vehicle planners and demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on this new benchmark.

View on arXivView PDF

Code Implementations

No confident code match yet

We couldn't find an author-owned or strongly-evidenced community implementation for this paper. 6 weaker matches are hidden by default — verify before relying on them.

No code implementations found yet.

Know of an implementation? Let us know in the comments below!

Similar Papers

Cite this paper

@article{peng2026improving,
  title  = {Improving Agent Behaviors with RL Fine-tuning for Autonomous Driving},
  author = {Zhenghao Peng and Wenjie Luo and Yiren Lu and Tianyi Shen and Cole Gulino and Ari Seff and Justin Fu},
  year   = {2026},
  eprint = {2409.18343},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18343},
  journal = {ECCV 2024 2024}
}

Add a badge to your README

Shows whether official code is linked for this paper.

Code of Paper badge
[![Code of Paper](https://codeofpaper.com/badge/2409.18343.svg)](https://codeofpaper.com/paper/2409.18343)

Discussion