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XAI-Guided Framework Enhances Sim-to-Real Transfer for Autonomous Driving

Researchers have developed a novel framework called XFD, which uses explainable AI (XAI) to improve the transfer of deep reinforcement learning policies from simulation to the real world for autonomous driving. This method focuses on perturbing appearance-sensitive spectral components in the Fourier domain while preserving task-critical spatial structures, creating more robust visual domains entirely within simulation. Experiments show that XFD enhances policy performance and reward compared to standard methods, particularly in complex, unseen environments, and maintains consistent attention to task-relevant features across simulation and real-world observations. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more reliable autonomous driving systems by improving the transfer of AI models from simulation to real-world conditions.

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XAI-Guided Framework Enhances Sim-to-Real Transfer for Autonomous Driving

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Wei Yao, Chuyao Wang, Ziwei Wang, Nabil Aouf ·

    XAI-Guided Fourier Domain Generalisation for Pure-Simulation Sim-to-Real Deep Reinforcement Learning

    arXiv:2610.16478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning has shown strong potential for vision-based autonomous driving, but policies trained in simulation often suffer severe performance degradation when deployed in the real world. Existing sim-to-real methods…