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arxiv: 2410.07191 · v2 · pith:DZI7HRW3new · submitted 2024-09-23 · 💻 cs.RO · cs.LG· stat.ME

Curb Your Attention: Causal Attention Gating for Robust Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Driving

Ehsan Ahmadi , Ray Mercurius , Soheil Alizadeh , Kasra Rezaee , Amir Rasouli This is my paper

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keywords trajectory predictionautonomous drivingcausal discoveryattention gatingtransformerrobustnessdomain generalization
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Causal attention gating in trajectory models filters non-causal agent signals to raise robustness by up to 54 percent.

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The paper introduces a trajectory prediction model that first runs a causal discovery network over past observations to find which surrounding agents actually influence the ego vehicle. It then inserts a causal attention gating step inside a transformer so that attention weights ignore agents whose actions lack causal links. This design targets the problem of predictions being thrown off by irrelevant agents whose behavior should not matter. If the gating works as intended, predictions stay stable under added noise from non-causal agents while accuracy on normal cases holds steady. Experiments on standard driving datasets also show the same architecture transfers better to new domains.

Core claim

The model CRiTIC identifies inter-agent causal relations over a window of past time steps with a Causal Discovery Network, then applies a Causal Attention Gating mechanism inside its transformer encoder to pass only causally relevant information forward; this yields up to 54 percent higher robustness against non-causal perturbations with little loss in prediction accuracy and up to 29 percent better performance when tested across different driving datasets.

What carries the argument

Causal Attention Gating, which multiplies standard attention scores by a binary or soft mask derived from the output of the Causal Discovery Network so that only agents with identified causal influence contribute to the prediction.

If this is right

  • Trajectory forecasts become less sensitive to the movements of agents whose actions have no causal bearing on the ego vehicle.
  • Prediction accuracy on standard benchmarks stays comparable while robustness metrics rise.
  • The same architecture produces higher accuracy when the test distribution shifts to a different driving dataset or city.
  • Downstream planning modules receive more stable inputs because fewer spurious correlations reach the output.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same discovery-plus-gating pattern could be inserted into other multi-agent forecasting settings such as pedestrian crowd modeling.
  • Running causal discovery on longer histories or with uncertainty estimates might further tighten the mask and reduce residual errors.
  • Directly feeding the discovered causal graph into a planner could let the vehicle plan around only the agents that truly matter.
  • Replacing the discovery network with a learned module trained end-to-end might relax the requirement for an accurate separate causal estimator.

Load-bearing premise

The causal discovery network must correctly label which agents exert causal influence on the ego-agent over the observed time window.

What would settle it

A controlled test set in which non-causal agents are deliberately injected into scenes but the discovery network still assigns them high causal scores would remove the reported robustness gains if the gating step is the source of improvement.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2410.07191 by Amir Rasouli, Ehsan Ahmadi, Kasra Rezaee, Ray Mercurius, Soheil Alizadeh.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Robustness qualitative samples. The AV is shown in green. In CRiTIC’s [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: An overview of CRiTIC. In this architecture, Causal Discovery Network receives the agent representations and generates a causality adjacency matrix. The [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Precision, recall, and the robustness against RemoveNonCausal [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Trajectory prediction models in autonomous driving are vulnerable to perturbations from non-causal agents whose actions should not affect the ego-agent's behavior. Such perturbations can lead to incorrect predictions of other agents' trajectories, potentially compromising the safety and efficiency of the ego-vehicle's decision-making process. Motivated by this challenge, we propose $\textit{Causal tRajecTory predICtion}$ $\textbf{(CRiTIC)}$, a novel model that utilizes a $\textit{Causal Discovery Network}$ to identify inter-agent causal relations over a window of past time steps. To incorporate discovered causal relationships, we propose a novel $\textit{Causal Attention Gating}$ mechanism to selectively filter information in the proposed Transformer-based architecture. We conduct extensive experiments on two autonomous driving benchmark datasets to evaluate the robustness of our model against non-causal perturbations and its generalization capacity. Our results indicate that the robustness of predictions can be improved by up to $\textbf{54%}$ without a significant detriment to prediction accuracy. Lastly, we demonstrate the superior domain generalizability of the proposed model, which achieves up to $\textbf{29%}$ improvement in cross-domain performance. These results underscore the potential of our model to enhance both robustness and generalization capacity for trajectory prediction in diverse autonomous driving domains. Further details can be found on our project page: https://ehsan-ami.github.io/critic.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper proposes CRiTIC, a Transformer-based trajectory prediction model for autonomous driving. It introduces a Causal Discovery Network to identify inter-agent causal relations from past trajectories and a Causal Attention Gating mechanism to selectively filter non-causal information. The central empirical claims are up to 54% improvement in robustness against non-causal perturbations and up to 29% better cross-domain performance on two public benchmarks, with no significant loss in nominal prediction accuracy.

Significance. If the reported robustness and generalization gains are shown to stem specifically from accurate causal discovery rather than architectural side-effects or dataset artifacts, the approach could meaningfully improve safety margins in autonomous driving by reducing sensitivity to irrelevant agents. The work evaluates on standard public datasets and provides a project page, which supports reproducibility of the empirical protocol.

major comments (2)
  1. [Method description (Causal Discovery Network)] The 54% robustness and 29% cross-domain claims rest on the Causal Discovery Network correctly recovering inter-agent causal edges. No section reports an independent validation metric (e.g., edge F1, intervention test, or synthetic-graph recovery) that quantifies discovery precision on either benchmark; the method description only states that the network “identifies” relations without reporting its own error rate or ablation against a non-causal baseline using the same architecture but random or correlation-based masks.
  2. [Abstract and Experiments] Abstract and experimental claims provide no information on perturbation generation procedure, choice of baseline models, statistical significance testing, or ablation controls that isolate the contribution of the gating mechanism. These omissions make it impossible to evaluate whether the quantitative gains are load-bearing evidence for the causal-attention hypothesis.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The acronym construction “Causal tRajecTory predICtion (CRiTIC)” is unconventional and may confuse readers; a standard descriptive name would improve clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 1 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. The comments identify areas where additional clarity and controls would strengthen the presentation of the causal discovery and gating components. We respond to each major comment below and outline the corresponding revisions.

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  1. Referee: [Method description (Causal Discovery Network)] The 54% robustness and 29% cross-domain claims rest on the Causal Discovery Network correctly recovering inter-agent causal edges. No section reports an independent validation metric (e.g., edge F1, intervention test, or synthetic-graph recovery) that quantifies discovery precision on either benchmark; the method description only states that the network “identifies” relations without reporting its own error rate or ablation against a non-causal baseline using the same architecture but random or correlation-based masks.

    Authors: We agree that the manuscript does not provide direct validation metrics (such as edge F1 or synthetic-graph recovery) for the Causal Discovery Network, as the real-world benchmarks lack ground-truth causal edges. The reported robustness gains are shown via end-to-end performance under controlled perturbations rather than explicit causal accuracy metrics. To address the concern, we will add an ablation study comparing the full model against variants that replace the discovered relations with random masks and with correlation-based masks, using the identical Transformer architecture. We will also add a limitations paragraph discussing the absence of ground-truth causal labels in public driving datasets. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Abstract and Experiments] Abstract and experimental claims provide no information on perturbation generation procedure, choice of baseline models, statistical significance testing, or ablation controls that isolate the contribution of the gating mechanism. These omissions make it impossible to evaluate whether the quantitative gains are load-bearing evidence for the causal-attention hypothesis.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the current abstract and experimental sections omit these procedural and control details. In the revised version we will (i) expand the abstract to briefly note the perturbation protocol and evaluation protocol, (ii) add a dedicated subsection describing how non-causal perturbations are generated, (iii) list all baseline models with citations, (iv) report statistical significance (e.g., mean and standard deviation over multiple seeds together with paired statistical tests), and (v) include an explicit ablation that isolates the Causal Attention Gating by comparing the full model to an ablated version without the gating mechanism. revision: yes

standing simulated objections not resolved
  • Direct edge-level validation metrics (e.g., edge F1) for the Causal Discovery Network cannot be reported on the public benchmarks because those datasets do not contain ground-truth causal relations between agents.

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical architecture evaluated on external benchmarks

full rationale

The paper introduces CRiTIC as a Transformer-based model augmented by a Causal Discovery Network and Causal Attention Gating. All performance claims (54% robustness, 29% cross-domain) are obtained by direct measurement against baselines on two public autonomous-driving datasets. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are shown to reduce the reported metrics to the model's own inputs by construction; the derivation chain consists of standard architectural choices followed by empirical validation, rendering the results externally falsifiable.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 1 invented entities

The abstract does not enumerate free parameters or background axioms; the model introduces a new gating mechanism whose correctness rests on the empirical performance of the causal discovery component.

invented entities (1)
  • Causal Attention Gating mechanism no independent evidence
    purpose: Selectively filter transformer attention based on discovered causal relations
    Newly proposed component whose independent evidence is the reported robustness gains.

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