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arxiv: 2605.21372 · v1 · pith:MIT34CK2new · submitted 2026-05-20 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI· cs.LG· cs.RO

Closed Loop Dynamic Driving Data Mixture for Real-Synthetic Co-Training

Hongzhi Ruan , Pei Liu , Weiliang Ma , Zhengning Li , Xueyang Zhang , Jun Ma , Dan Xu , Kun Zhan This is my paper

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keywords autonomous drivingreal-synthetic co-trainingdata mixture optimizationclosed-loop evaluationsynthetic data selectionscene representationend-to-end learning
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Closed-loop simulation feedback dynamically optimizes real-synthetic data mixtures for better autonomous driving performance with fewer samples.

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

The paper aims to show that mixing real and synthetic driving data for end-to-end models works best when treated as an iterative optimization guided by how the model performs in closed-loop simulation. Real data is costly and biased toward common scenes, so the method clusters scenes, scores their value from evaluation feedback, and pulls in only the most useful synthetic examples. This matters because simply adding more synthetic data often creates harmful distribution shifts or wastes compute under tight training budgets. A sympathetic reader would care because it offers a concrete way to scale learning without collecting ever-larger real-world datasets.

Core claim

AutoScale formulates data mixture as a dynamic optimization process that iteratively adjusts scene types and quantities to maximize model performance using closed-loop evaluation feedback. It uses Graph Regularized AutoEncoder to represent driving scenes, Cluster-aware Gradient Ascent to estimate cluster importance and reweighting, and cluster-guided vector retrieval to select high-value synthetic samples. Experiments on NavSim show this outperforms vanilla co-training and cross-domain baselines while delivering better results with fewer synthetic samples under constrained budgets.

What carries the argument

The closed-loop data engine that unifies scene representation, cluster-wise importance estimation from evaluation feedback, and retrieval to dynamically adjust the real-synthetic training mixture.

Load-bearing premise

That signals from running the model in simulation reliably identify which scene clusters are most worth supplementing with synthetic data and that those choices improve performance on real data without creating new mismatches.

What would settle it

Training a model with the AutoScale mixture and then measuring its performance on a large set of real-world driving logs; if accuracy or robustness falls below that of a model trained with a fixed or random synthetic mixture, the central claim is falsified.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.21372 by Dan Xu, Hongzhi Ruan, Jun Ma, Kun Zhan, Pei Liu, Weiliang Ma, Xueyang Zhang, Zhengning Li.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Scheme Comparison. (a) Existing scaling for real-synthetic co-training adopts vanilla [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of the proposed AutoScale with three core modules. (a) Scene representation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Qualitative results of clustering. (a) t-SNE of clusters on the training set. (b) Visualization [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative results of retrieval. The green dotted curve, red dotted curve, and dark yellow [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Clustering Visualization of Common and Long-Tail Driving Scenes in the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Additional Visualization of Underperforming Scenes, Scene Retrieval, and Performance [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_6.png] view at source ↗
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Data scaling is fundamental to modern deep learning, and grows increasingly critical as autonomous driving shifts to end-to-end learning. Real-world driving data is expensive to annotate and scene-biased, making real-synthetic co-training with near-infinite synthetic data a promising direction. However, naively incorporating all available synthetic data is inefficient and leads to distribution shifts, and optimizing data mixture under practical training budgets remains a critical yet under-explored problem. In this sense, we claim that the mixture of training data requires clear guidance in terms of scene types and quantities. Particularly in this work, we conceptualize the data mixture approximately as a dynamic optimization process that iteratively adjusts the training data mixture to maximize model performance, guided by closed-loop evaluation feedback, and propose AutoScale, a fully automated closed-loop data engine unifying scene representation, data mixture optimization and retrieval, as well as model training and evaluation. Specifically, we propose Graph Regularized AutoEncoder (Graph-RAE) for driving scene representations, introduce Cluster-aware Gradient Ascent (Cluster-GA) for cluster-wise importance estimation and reweighting, and perform cluster-guided vector retrieval to select high-value samples. Experiments on NavSim demonstrate that AutoScale outperforms vanilla co-training and cross-domain baselines, achieving better performance with fewer synthetic samples under constrained budgets.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes AutoScale, a closed-loop data engine for real-synthetic co-training in autonomous driving. It introduces Graph Regularized AutoEncoder (Graph-RAE) for scene representations, Cluster-aware Gradient Ascent (Cluster-GA) for cluster-wise importance estimation and reweighting, and cluster-guided vector retrieval to select high-value samples. The central claim is that this dynamic optimization of data mixtures, guided by closed-loop NavSim feedback, outperforms vanilla co-training and cross-domain baselines while achieving better performance with fewer synthetic samples under constrained budgets.

Significance. If the results hold under rigorous validation, the work could meaningfully advance efficient data scaling for end-to-end driving models by automating mixture optimization. The unification of representation learning, gradient-based reweighting, and retrieval into a closed-loop engine addresses a practical bottleneck in real-synthetic co-training, with potential for broader impact in data-efficient training regimes.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and Experimental Results] Abstract and Experimental Results: the reported gains on NavSim lack details on statistical significance testing, exact baseline implementations, data exclusion rules, error bars, or number of runs. Without these, it is difficult to assess whether the improvements with fewer samples are robust or could be explained by variance in training or evaluation.
  2. [Method (Cluster-GA and retrieval)] Method section on Cluster-GA: cluster importance weights and retrieval criteria appear derived from the same data distribution being optimized, and both gradient ascent steps and final performance measurement occur inside NavSim. This raises a load-bearing concern that reported gains may reflect fitting to simulator-specific artifacts rather than transferable improvements; an external hold-out (real data or alternate simulator) is needed to break potential circularity.
  3. [Experimental Results] Experimental Results: cluster definitions and the number of gradient ascent steps are described without ablation on their sensitivity or post-hoc selection criteria. If these choices were tuned on the evaluation distribution, the cross-domain and budget-constrained claims require re-validation with fixed, pre-specified hyperparameters.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Method] Notation for Graph-RAE loss terms and the precise formulation of the closed-loop objective could be clarified with an explicit equation relating importance weights to the performance feedback signal.
  2. [Figures] Figure captions and axis labels in the NavSim results plots should explicitly state the metric (e.g., success rate, collision rate) and the exact synthetic sample budget used for each curve.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment point by point below, providing clarifications from the manuscript and indicating planned revisions where appropriate to improve rigor and transparency.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and Experimental Results] Abstract and Experimental Results: the reported gains on NavSim lack details on statistical significance testing, exact baseline implementations, data exclusion rules, error bars, or number of runs. Without these, it is difficult to assess whether the improvements with fewer samples are robust or could be explained by variance in training or evaluation.

    Authors: We agree that additional statistical details would strengthen the presentation of results. In the revised manuscript we will report error bars computed over multiple independent training runs (specifying the exact number of runs and random seeds), include statistical significance tests (such as paired t-tests or Wilcoxon signed-rank tests) between AutoScale and the baselines, and expand the experimental section to describe exact baseline implementations, data exclusion criteria, and evaluation protocols. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Method (Cluster-GA and retrieval)] Method section on Cluster-GA: cluster importance weights and retrieval criteria appear derived from the same data distribution being optimized, and both gradient ascent steps and final performance measurement occur inside NavSim. This raises a load-bearing concern that reported gains may reflect fitting to simulator-specific artifacts rather than transferable improvements; an external hold-out (real data or alternate simulator) is needed to break potential circularity.

    Authors: We acknowledge the validity of the circularity concern. The closed-loop design intentionally uses NavSim feedback to guide data mixture optimization for the real-synthetic co-training task, and cross-domain baselines are already included to probe generalization. To further mitigate simulator-specific artifacts, the revision will add an explicit discussion of potential biases together with results on an external hold-out (either a real-world driving dataset or an alternate simulator) to demonstrate that the selected mixtures transfer beyond the optimization loop. revision: partial

  3. Referee: [Experimental Results] Experimental Results: cluster definitions and the number of gradient ascent steps are described without ablation on their sensitivity or post-hoc selection criteria. If these choices were tuned on the evaluation distribution, the cross-domain and budget-constrained claims require re-validation with fixed, pre-specified hyperparameters.

    Authors: We clarify that cluster definitions are derived directly from the Graph-RAE latent space on the training distribution and that the number of gradient ascent steps was chosen according to convergence behavior observed in preliminary runs, not tuned on the final evaluation set. In the revision we will add sensitivity ablations on both the number of clusters and the number of ascent steps, performed with fixed, pre-specified hyperparameters, and will re-validate the budget-constrained and cross-domain claims under these fixed settings. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; closed-loop optimization uses external simulator feedback as objective

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain conceptualizes data mixture as an iterative optimization guided by closed-loop NavSim evaluation feedback, then introduces Graph-RAE for scene representation, Cluster-GA for importance estimation, and vector retrieval for sample selection. These steps are algorithmic proposals whose outputs (mixture weights, selected samples) are not equivalent to their inputs by construction; the performance signal is generated by running the trained model in simulation, which is an independent measurement step rather than a renaming or self-definition. No self-citations are invoked as load-bearing uniqueness theorems, no ansatz is smuggled, and no fitted parameter is relabeled as a prediction. Experiments compare against vanilla co-training and cross-domain baselines on the NavSim benchmark, providing an external anchor for the reported gains. The derivation remains self-contained; concerns about simulator-specific artifacts belong to generalization risk, not circularity.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The method rests on domain assumptions about scene clustering and the value of gradient-based importance signals; no explicit free parameters or invented entities are named in the abstract, but the optimization implicitly fits cluster weights to performance feedback.

free parameters (1)
  • cluster importance weights
    Derived via Cluster-GA from training feedback and used to reweight scene clusters
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Driving scenes admit useful low-dimensional representations via graph-regularized autoencoders that preserve structural relationships
    Invoked when introducing Graph-RAE for scene representation
  • domain assumption Closed-loop simulation feedback provides reliable guidance for selecting training data that improves real-world generalization
    Central to the dynamic optimization process described

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