TreeIRL system architecture

TreeIRL: Safe Urban Driving with Tree Search and Inverse Reinforcement Learning

How can we combine search with ML for safe and human-like autonomous driving?

September 2025 · Momchil S. Tomov, Sang Uk Lee, Hansford Hendrago, Jinwook Huh, Teawon Han, Forbes Howington, Rafael da Silva, Gianmarco Bernasconi, Marc Heim, Samuel Findler, Xiaonan Ji, Alexander Boule, Michael Napoli, Kuo Chen, Jesse Miller, Boaz Floor, Yunqing Hu
DriveIRL system architecture

DriveIRL: Drive in Real Life with Inverse Reinforcement Learning

What is the intrinsic reward function of human drivers? How can we infer it and use it to drive an actual autonomous vehicle?

June 2023 · Tung Phan-Minh, Forbes Howington, Ting-Sheng Chu, Momchil S. Tomov, Robert E. Beaudoin, Sang Uk Lee, Nanxiang Li, Caglayan Dicle, Samuel Findler, Francisco Suarez-Ruiz, Bo Yang, Sammy Omari, Eric M. Wolff