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arxiv: 2606.11019 · v1 · pith:YYREZ6FTnew · submitted 2026-06-09 · 💻 cs.RO · cs.AI

Diffusion Forcing Planner: History-Annealed Planning with Time-Dependent Guidance for Autonomous Driving

Zehan Zhang , Neng Zhang , Yaoyi Li , Jia Cai , Zhiling Wang This is my paper

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DFP decomposes trajectories into independently noised segments and uses annealed history guidance to generate stable driving plans.

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

The paper aims to fix temporal inconsistency in learning-based motion planners for autonomous driving. Small changes across frames can build up into shaky trajectories that hurt comfort and safety. Existing fixes that add history as a fixed signal often make the planner just repeat past moves instead of responding to new situations. DFP breaks the trajectory into history, current, and future parts, gives each its own noise level, and denoises them together. This lets the model use history to guide the future in a flexible way through time-dependent control at inference.

Core claim

By decomposing the trajectory into history, current and future segments with independent noise levels and jointly denoising them under a heterogeneous diffusion process, while applying classifier-free guidance with annealed history, DFP produces continuous, stable, and controllable motion plans that adapt to context rather than copy history.

What carries the argument

Heterogeneous joint diffusion on trajectory segments with time-dependent noise and annealed classifier-free guidance.

If this is right

  • Closed-loop performance on nuPlan matches or exceeds prior methods.
  • Trajectories remain continuous and stable without accumulating perturbations.
  • Plans adapt to environment changes instead of repeating historical patterns.
  • Controllability is achieved through the guidance mechanism.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • Similar segment-wise noise scheduling could apply to other long-horizon sequence generation tasks like video or speech.
  • Testing on real-world driving data beyond nuPlan would check if the boundary stability holds in varied conditions.
  • The approach might reduce the need for post-processing smoothing in planning pipelines.

Load-bearing premise

Decomposing the trajectory into independently noised segments and jointly denoising them will force adaptation to new contexts without creating instabilities at the segment boundaries.

What would settle it

Closed-loop simulations on nuPlan where DFP shows either accumulating jitter across frames or repeated copying of past trajectories at rates similar to baselines.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.11019 by Jia Cai, Neng Zhang, Yaoyi Li, Zehan Zhang, Zhiling Wang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the Diffusion Forcing Planner framework. ing remarkable long-term coherence. Our key insight is that motion planning shares the same causal structure, but the history must be modulated in the presence of strong scene context, requiring controllable guidance strength. Unlike [23] which uses history only for initialization, or [30] which only selects among samples, we integrate history into the d… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: DP vs. DFP qualitative comparison. The figure visualizes trajectory predictions over four consecutive frames in two scenarios. Yellow trajectories denote expert (log-replay) trajectories and blue trajectories denote model predictions. Compared to DP, DFP maintains smoother and more temporally consistent trajectories across frames. evaluated without any additional post-processing. We di￾rectly use the raw m… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Effect of history guidance weights. training stability. A5 introduces history guidance without action chunking. In this setting, the gains over the baseline are modest, sug￾gesting that simply injecting history guidance into a non￾chunked decoder is insufficient to fully exploit historical in￾formation. A6 combines action chunking with clean history guid￾ance and yields gains in planning quality, indicatin… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Annealed history CFG. Lighter points indicate earlier diffusion timesteps. Algorithms 1 and 2 are presented in the Method sec￾tion as pseudocode, and together they provide the com￾plete pipelines of the two components of DFP: Algorithm 1 — Training with Diffusion Forcing, and Algorithm 2 — History-annealed CFG Inference. Figure4 visualizes the an￾nealed history CFG procedure. Algorithm 1 Diffusion-Forcing … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: nuPlan scene visualization and ego kinematic profiles. From left to right: scene view, jerk, longitudinal acceleration, and yaw [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Frame-level comparison. [14] Kashyap Chitta, Aditya Prakash, Bernhard Jaeger, Zehao Yu, Katrin Renz, and Andreas Geiger. Transfuser: Imitation with transformer-based sensor fusion for autonomous driv￾ing. IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine in￾telligence, 45(11):12878–12895, 2022. 2 [15] Daniel Dauner, Marcel Hallgarten, Andreas Geiger, and Kashyap Chitta. Parting with misconceptions about le… view at source ↗
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Learning-based motion planners, despite recent progress, often suffer from temporal inconsistency. Small perturbations across frames can accumulate into unstable trajectories, degrading comfort and safety in closed-loop driving. Several methods attempt to inject history as a static conditioning signal to stabilize outputs, only to induce the planner to copy historical patterns instead of adapting to environment contexts. To address this limitation, we propose Diffusion Forcing Planner (DFP), a diffusion-based planning framework driven by history-guided control. Specifically, DFP decomposes the full trajectory into history, current and future segments, and assign independent noise levels to each segment. The model jointly denoises the historical and the future segments, enforcing a heterogeneous joint diffusion process. At inference, classifier-free guidance (CFG) is applied to steer future sampling using annealed history in a controllable manner. Closed-loop evaluation and comprehensive ablations on nuPlan show that DFP achieves competitive performance while producing continuous, stable, and controllable motion plans in complex driving scenarios.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes Diffusion Forcing Planner (DFP), a diffusion-based motion planning method for autonomous driving. It decomposes trajectories into history/current/future segments assigned independent noise levels, performs joint denoising under a heterogeneous diffusion process, and applies classifier-free guidance with annealed history at inference to produce continuous, stable, and context-adaptive plans. Closed-loop nuPlan evaluations and ablations are reported to show competitive performance without historical pattern copying.

Significance. If the central stability and adaptability claims hold under rigorous verification, the approach would offer a concrete mechanism for injecting history without inducing copying in diffusion planners, which is a recurring failure mode in learning-based autonomous driving. The use of per-segment noise schedules and annealed CFG is a potentially reusable idea for other sequential generation tasks.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: No quantitative metrics, baseline names, or error bars are supplied for the claimed 'competitive performance' on nuPlan closed-loop evaluation. Without these, the central empirical claim cannot be assessed for soundness or compared to prior work.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: The heterogeneous joint diffusion process (independent noise on history/current/future segments, jointly denoised) is described at a high level only. No equations, noise schedule definitions, boundary conditioning details, or continuity regularizer are given, leaving open whether the process actually prevents pattern copying or introduces junction artifacts as hypothesized in the stress-test note.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the detailed feedback. We agree that the abstract can be strengthened with additional concrete details and will revise it in the next version. Below we respond point-by-point to the major comments.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: No quantitative metrics, baseline names, or error bars are supplied for the claimed 'competitive performance' on nuPlan closed-loop evaluation. Without these, the central empirical claim cannot be assessed for soundness or compared to prior work.

    Authors: We agree the abstract would benefit from explicit metrics. The manuscript body (Table 1, Figure 4, and associated text) reports closed-loop nuPlan results with specific baselines (e.g., PlanTF, GC-PGP), success/collision rates, and error bars across multiple seeds. In the revision we will incorporate the most salient quantitative results and baseline names into the abstract while respecting length limits. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The heterogeneous joint diffusion process (independent noise on history/current/future segments, jointly denoised) is described at a high level only. No equations, noise schedule definitions, boundary conditioning details, or continuity regularizer are given, leaving open whether the process actually prevents pattern copying or introduces junction artifacts as hypothesized in the stress-test note.

    Authors: The abstract is intentionally concise. Section 3 of the manuscript supplies the full formulation: independent noise schedules per segment (Eq. 3), the joint denoising objective, boundary conditioning at segment junctions, and the continuity regularizer. The stress-test note and ablations (Section 4.3) demonstrate that the heterogeneous schedule plus annealed CFG reduces historical copying relative to standard conditioning without introducing measurable junction artifacts. We will add a single sentence referencing the key equations to the revised abstract. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity; claims rest on external nuPlan evaluation

full rationale

The paper introduces DFP by decomposing trajectories into segments with independent noise levels and applying joint denoising plus annealed CFG. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are shown that reduce the stability/adaptability claims to inputs by construction. Performance is asserted via closed-loop nuPlan metrics, which are external and falsifiable, rendering the derivation self-contained.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract provides no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; assessment limited by lack of full text.

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