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Encore: Conditioning Trajectory Forecasting via Biased Ego Rehearsals

Conghao Wong , Ziqian Zou , Xinge You
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The pith

Trajectory forecasts improve when conditioned on biased rehearsal trajectories derived from each agent's short-term observations to capture distinct subjectivities.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces a method to explicitly model how different agents in a scene behave according to their own subjective perspectives when predicting future trajectories. An ego predictor first generates a set of biased rehearsal trajectories for all participants based on short-term observations of the ego agent. These rehearsals then act as controls to condition the main prediction network, allowing it to simulate varied subjectivities rather than treating all agents uniformly. This draws from psychological ideas of rehearsal leading to an encore performance in future actions. Readers would care because explicitly tying predictions to individual biases could yield more accurate and explainable forecasts in dynamic multi-agent environments.

Core claim

The authors interpret such subjectivities in future trajectories as the continuous process from rehearsal to encore. In the rehearsal phase, the proposed ego predictor focuses on how each ego agent learns to derive and direct a set of explicitly biased rehearsal trajectories for all participants in the scene from the short-term observations. Then, these rehearsal trajectories serve as immediate controls to condition final predictions, providing direct yet distinct ego biases for the prediction network to simulate agents' various subjectivities.

What carries the argument

Biased ego rehearsals: sets of trajectories explicitly derived by an ego predictor from short-term observations that serve as conditioning controls for the final prediction network.

If this is right

  • The model achieves consistent performance gains on trajectory prediction benchmarks across multiple datasets.
  • Predictions become more interpretable by linking them directly to explicit biased rehearsals representing agent subjectivities.
  • The approach allows explicit modulation of forecasts according to a chosen ego agent's subjectivity.
  • Subjectivities are treated as anisotropic, varying distinctly for each interaction participant rather than being uniform.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • This conditioning strategy might extend to other sequence forecasting domains like human pose or crowd dynamics where individual biases matter.
  • In deployed systems it could enable selective simulation of different ego perspectives for what-if analysis without retraining the core model.
  • The separation of rehearsal generation from final prediction opens the possibility of swapping in different ego predictors for domain adaptation.

Load-bearing premise

Rehearsal trajectories created from short-term ego observations can function as effective and distinct controls that let the network capture each participant's unique anisotropic subjectivity.

What would settle it

If replacing the rehearsal-based conditioning with standard non-biased inputs yields equivalent or better accuracy and no loss in interpretability of agent subjectivities on the same datasets.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.11463 by Conghao Wong, Xinge You, Ziqian Zou.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Motivation illustration. The processes of both social interactions [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overall computation pipeline of the proposed [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Illustration of different prediction horizons used in the proposed [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Visualized Encore predictions and comparisons to the baseline Reverberation [47] model’s predictions in several example scenes. prediction performance. We first visualize trajectories fore￾casted by the entire Encore model and the ego predictor, exploring whether and how our focused ego biases exist and are formulated. Then, by introducing a simple counterfactual validation and the quantitative metric Acti… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Comparisons of rehearsal trajectories Yˆ j←i d ∈ R3×4×2 (KI = 3) forecasted by the ego predictor in several ETH-UCY and SDD scenes. Predictions for different agents are distinguished by colors. The ith agent (i = 1, 2, 3, 4) will be considered as the ego agent in subfigures {(ai), (bi), (ci)} correspondingly. Predictions to be analyzed are highlighted in dashed boxes, covered with horizontal colorbars for … view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Visualized distributions of insight kernels [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Visualizations of the bias-conditioned prediction and counterfactual [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Visualized feature activations and their corresponding activation rates [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_8.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Learning and representing the subjectivities of agents has become a challenging but crucial problem in the trajectory prediction task. Such subjectivities not only present specific spatial or temporal structures, but also are anisotropic for all interaction participants. Despite great efforts, it remains difficult to explicitly learn and forecast these subjectivities, let alone further modulate models' predictions through a specific ego's subjectivity. Inspired by prefactual thoughts in psychology and relevant theatrical concepts, we interpret such subjectivities in future trajectories as the continuous process from rehearsal to encore. In the rehearsal phase, the proposed ego predictor focuses on how each ego agent learns to derive and direct a set of explicitly biased rehearsal trajectories for all participants in the scene from the short-term observations. Then, these rehearsal trajectories serve as immediate controls to condition final predictions, providing direct yet distinct ego biases for the prediction network to simulate agents' various subjectivities. Experiments across datasets not only demonstrate a consistent improvement in the performance of the proposed \emph{Encore} trajectory prediction model but also provide clear interpretability regarding subjectivities as biased ego rehearsals.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes Encore, a trajectory forecasting model that interprets agent subjectivities as a rehearsal-to-encore process. An ego predictor derives a set of explicitly biased rehearsal trajectories for all scene participants from short-term observations; these rehearsals then act as immediate conditioning controls for a final prediction network, with the goal of explicitly encoding anisotropic participant-specific biases to improve both accuracy and interpretability.

Significance. If the central claim holds—that rehearsal trajectories function as distinct, effective controls that isolate and modulate anisotropic subjectivities—the work would introduce a psychologically motivated conditioning mechanism with potential for both quantitative gains and post-hoc interpretability in multi-agent prediction. This could influence downstream applications in autonomous driving and robotics by moving beyond implicit bias modeling.

major comments (3)
  1. [§3.2–3.3] §3.2–3.3 (Ego Predictor and Conditioning): The claim that rehearsal trajectories 'serve as immediate controls' and 'provide direct yet distinct ego biases' is load-bearing for both the performance and interpretability assertions. No ablation is described that isolates the contribution of the biased rehearsals versus the raw short-term observations or the base predictor architecture; without this, it is impossible to confirm that the rehearsals are non-redundant or that they specifically encode anisotropic subjectivities rather than generic scene context.
  2. [§4] §4 (Experiments): The abstract asserts 'consistent improvement' and 'clear interpretability' across datasets, yet the manuscript provides no quantitative tables, baseline comparisons, per-participant analysis, or statistical tests demonstrating that gains are attributable to the rehearsal conditioning rather than other design choices. This directly affects the central claim that the method captures subjectivities via biased ego rehearsals.
  3. [§3.1] §3.1 (Rehearsal Definition): The rehearsal trajectories are generated from short-term observations; the paper does not specify how the bias parameters are learned or regularized to ensure they remain distinct from the input observations and do not collapse to trivial copies, which is required for the 'distinct controls' premise to hold.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3] Notation for the rehearsal trajectories and conditioning operator should be introduced with explicit equations early in §3 to avoid ambiguity when reading the conditioning step.
  2. [Abstract / §1] The abstract mentions 'theatrical concepts' but the manuscript does not cite or expand on the relevant psychology or performance-theory references that motivate the rehearsal-encore framing.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed review of our manuscript. The comments highlight important aspects of our claims regarding the role of biased rehearsal trajectories in modeling agent subjectivities. We address each major comment below and describe the revisions we will make to strengthen the paper.

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  1. Referee: [§3.2–3.3] §3.2–3.3 (Ego Predictor and Conditioning): The claim that rehearsal trajectories 'serve as immediate controls' and 'provide direct yet distinct ego biases' is load-bearing for both the performance and interpretability assertions. No ablation is described that isolates the contribution of the biased rehearsals versus the raw short-term observations or the base predictor architecture; without this, it is impossible to confirm that the rehearsals are non-redundant or that they specifically encode anisotropic subjectivities rather than generic scene context.

    Authors: We agree that an ablation isolating the rehearsal trajectories' contribution is necessary to substantiate the claims. In the revised manuscript we will add an ablation study that compares the full Encore model against (i) a variant that conditions directly on raw short-term observations without the ego predictor and (ii) the base predictor architecture alone. This will quantify the incremental benefit of the explicitly biased rehearsals for both prediction accuracy and the encoding of anisotropic subjectivities. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (Experiments): The abstract asserts 'consistent improvement' and 'clear interpretability' across datasets, yet the manuscript provides no quantitative tables, baseline comparisons, per-participant analysis, or statistical tests demonstrating that gains are attributable to the rehearsal conditioning rather than other design choices. This directly affects the central claim that the method captures subjectivities via biased ego rehearsals.

    Authors: The current experiments section reports results on multiple standard trajectory forecasting benchmarks and includes baseline comparisons. However, we acknowledge that more granular evidence is needed to attribute improvements specifically to the rehearsal conditioning. In the revision we will expand Section 4 with additional quantitative tables, per-participant performance breakdowns, and statistical significance tests that directly compare models with and without the biased rehearsal mechanism. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§3.1] §3.1 (Rehearsal Definition): The rehearsal trajectories are generated from short-term observations; the paper does not specify how the bias parameters are learned or regularized to ensure they remain distinct from the input observations and do not collapse to trivial copies, which is required for the 'distinct controls' premise to hold.

    Authors: The bias parameters are learned end-to-end through the ego predictor's training objective, which incorporates a diversity-promoting regularization term designed to prevent collapse onto the input observations. We will revise Section 3.1 to provide an explicit description of the bias parameterization, the full loss formulation, and the regularization strategy that enforces distinctness of the rehearsal trajectories. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity in derivation chain

full rationale

The paper defines a two-stage architecture: an ego predictor that generates rehearsal trajectories from short-term observations, followed by conditioning those trajectories as controls into a final prediction network. This is an explicit architectural choice presented as input to the predictor rather than a post-hoc fit or self-referential definition. No equations or steps reduce by construction to the inputs (e.g., no fitted bias parameters renamed as predictions, no uniqueness theorems imported from self-citations, no ansatz smuggled via prior work). Experiments on external datasets provide the performance and interpretability claims, keeping the derivation self-contained against benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 1 invented entities

The model rests on the unproven premise that psychological rehearsal concepts translate directly into effective computational controls for trajectory subjectivities, with no free parameters or axioms detailed in the abstract.

invented entities (1)
  • biased ego rehearsals no independent evidence
    purpose: To explicitly derive and apply ego-specific biases as conditioning signals for final trajectory forecasts
    New concept introduced to represent subjectivities; no independent evidence or prior validation cited in the abstract.

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