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Hierarchical Light Transformer Ensembles for Multimodal Trajectory Forecasting

26 Mar 2024arXiv:2403.17678archive 2025-07-28

Adrien Lafage, Mathieu Barbier, Gianni Franchi, David Filliat

Accurate trajectory forecasting is crucial for the performance of various systems, such as advanced driver-assistance systems and self-driving vehicles. These forecasts allow us to anticipate events that lead to collisions and, therefore, to mitigate them. Deep Neural Networks have excelled in motion forecasting, but overconfidence and weak uncertainty quantification persist. Deep Ensembles address these concerns, yet applying them to multimodal distributions remains challenging. In this paper, we propose a novel approach named Hierarchical Light Transformer Ensembles (HLT-Ens) aimed at efficiently training an ensemble of Transformer architectures using a novel hierarchical loss function. HLT-Ens leverages grouped fully connected layers, inspired by grouped convolution techniques, to capture multimodal distributions effectively. We demonstrate that HLT-Ens achieves state-of-the-art performance levels through extensive experimentation, offering a promising avenue for improving trajectory forecasting techniques.

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Motion ForecastingTrajectory ForecastingUncertainty Quantification

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1x1 ConvolutionAbsolute Position EncodingsAdamAttentionBPEConvolutionDeep EnsemblesDense ConnectionsDropoutGrouped ConvolutionLabel SmoothingLayer NormalizationLinear LayerMulti-Head AttentionPosition-Wise Feed-Forward LayerResidual ConnectionSoftmaxTransformer

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