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Record W4411183293 · doi:10.1016/j.commtr.2025.100183

A multiagent social interaction model for autonomous vehicle testing

2025· article· en· W4411183293 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueCommunications in Transportation Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicAutonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
Canadian institutionsMinistry of Education and Child Care
FundersFundamental Research Funds for the Central UniversitiesNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsComputer science

Abstract

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Social interaction capability (SIC) is essential for autonomous vehicles (AVs) when they interact with surrounding vehicles, as the ability of understanding and reacting to the behaviors of other road users can significantly enhance AVs’ rapid deployment. Virtual simulation testing is a core approach for evaluating AVs, including their SIC, on the basis of traffic simulation models. However, existing simulation models focus mainly on generating accurate vehicle trajectories and do not explicitly model the high-level sociality nature of interaction decisions that guide specific movements. This study aims to address this gap by developing a multiagent simulation model for the social interaction of human driving behavior on the basis of the multiagent imitation learning (MAIL) approach, which is referred to as the Social-MAIL model. Specifically, to quantify the sociality of decisions, we introduce social value orientation into the reward function to quantify cooperation or competition intent and guide the generation of social driving behaviors. Furthermore, to fully depict the complex interaction environment, we develop a heterogeneous policy network with temporal‒spatial attention mechanisms to describe the impact of multiple interactive objects and historical states on driving behavior. Through training and validation on the SinD dataset, we demonstrate that, compared with a set of baseline models, the proposed Social-MAIL model can accurately capture complex and time-varying social intent and reproduce the most realistic vehicle trajectories and macroscopic traffic flow characteristics at intersections. Moreover, we apply the Social-MAIL model for evaluating the SIC of AVs via comparison experiments.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.492
Threshold uncertainty score0.372

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.187
GPT teacher head0.428
Teacher spread0.241 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it