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Computer Science > Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition arXiv:2609.04921v1 (cs) [Submitted on 4 Sep 2026] Title:One Diffusion Model, Two Roles: Guided Trajectory Planning and Safety-Critical Scenario Generation in Closed-Loop Simulation Authors:Arka Pal, Rajesh Kumar, Hannes Eriksson, Rémi Lacombe, Arvid Laveno Ling, Ankit Gupta, Maciej Wozniak View a PDF of the paper titled One Diffusion Model, Two Roles: Guided Trajectory Planning and Safety-Critical Scenario Generation in Closed-Loop Simulation, by Arka Pal and 6 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Diffusion probabilistic models can capture the multi-modal, interaction-rich distribution of joint future trajectories in driving scenes. We show that a single pretrained diffusion traffic model can serve two complementary roles in the autonomous driving development loop: as an ego motion planner, and as a controllable generator of safety-critical scenarios for stress-testing the planners. On the planning side, we introduce a Single-Stream Dual-Stream (SSDS) diffusion-transformer decoder that fuses scene context via joint attention rather than late cross-attention, improving closed-loop performance on nuPlan. We further propose Decoupled Annealing Posterior Sampling with Energy (DAPSE), a training-free guidance scheme that injects arbitrary energy functions at the clean-sample level, avoiding the first-order approximation errors while requiring no auxiliary networks. Beyond planning, we leverage the same diffusion model as a controllable scenario generator to create realistic long-tail driving interactions for closed-loop evaluation. Through inference-time guidance, selected agents are steered toward safety-critical behaviors, including aggressive cut-ins, lead-vehicle braking, and combined longitudinal-lateral interactions, while preserving realistic traffic behaviors. Evaluated in closed-loop nuPlan simulations with independent black-box planners, the generated scenarios expose failure modes that remain hidden under standard benchmarks. Although the SSDS-based planner achieves stronger nominal performance, it experiences larger degradation under these challenging scenarios, demonstrating that benchmark superiority does not necessarily translate to robustness. These results demonstrate that a single learned traffic prior can simultaneously improve motion planning and provide a realistic framework for systematic planner robustness evaluation. Comments: Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Robotics (cs.RO) Cite as: arXiv:2609.04921 [cs.CV] (or arXiv:2609.04921v1 [cs.CV] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.04921 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Arka Pal [view email] [v1] Fri, 4 Sep 2026 09:22:54 UTC (641 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled One Diffusion Model, Two Roles: Guided Trajectory Planning and Safety-Critical Scenario Generation in Closed-Loop Simulation, by Arka Pal and 6 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.CV new | recent | 2026-09 Change to browse by: cs cs.AI cs.LG cs.RO References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... 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