Fine-tuning is Not Enough: A Parallel Framework for Collaborative Imitation and Reinforcement Learning in End-to-end Autonomous Driving
Researchers propose PaIR-Drive, a new parallel framework that combines imitation learning and reinforcement learning for autonomous driving, achieving 91.2 PDMS performance on NAVSIMv1 benchmark. The approach addresses limitations of sequential fine-tuning by running IL and RL in parallel branches, enabling better performance than existing methods.