Wenhao Ding

Wenhao Ding (丁文浩)

Email: wenhaod AT nvidia DOT com

My research centers on enhancing the safety and robustness of physical autonomous systems, with a current emphasis on autonomous vehicles. I work to improve the reasoning capabilities of learning-based models by using multi-modal large language models, reinforcement learning, and causal discovery.

             2024 -
I am a Research Scientist at the Autonomous Vehicle Group of NVIDIA Research. I work on the closed-loop simulation and safety for autonomous systems.
2019 - 2024
My Ph.D. research focused on safety-critical scenarios generation. My thesis title is ''Generative AI for Critical Digital Twins''.
2023 - 2023
I was a Research Intern in the Autonomous Vehicle Group led by Prof. Marco Pavone. I collaborated with Chaowei Xiao and Yulong Cao on a scenario generation project.
2022 - 2022
I was an Applied Scientist Intern of the Astro team at Lab126, where I collaborated with Nathalie Majcherczyk and Mohit Deshpande on the active perception project.
2021 - 2021
I was a Machine Learning Research Intern at Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, where I worked on traffic flow analysis and clustering.
2014 - 2018
I received my Bachelor degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University. I was a member of the Spark Program and a former leader of Skyworks.
BECAUSE: Bilinear Causal Representation for Generalizable Offline Model-based Reinforcement Learning

Haohong Lin, Wenhao Ding, Jian Chen, Laixi Shi, Jiacheng Zhu, Bo Li, Ding Zhao
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024

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OASIS: Conditional Distribution Shaping for Offline Safe Reinforcement Learning

Yihang Yao*, Zhepeng Cen*, Wenhao Ding, Haohong Lin, Shiqi Liu, Tingnan Zhang, Wenhao Yu, Ding Zhao
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024

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RealGen: Retrieval Augmented Generation for Controllable Traffic Scenarios

Wenhao Ding*, Yulong Cao*, Ding Zhao, Chaowei Xiao, Marco Pavone
(Oral) European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024

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Safety-aware Causal Representation for Trustworthy Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Driving

Haohong Lin, Wenhao Ding, Zuxin Liu, Yaru Niu, Jiacheng Zhu, Yuming Niu, Ding Zhao
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2024

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Seeing is not Believing: Robust Reinforcement Learning against Spurious Correlation

Wenhao Ding*, Laixi Shi*, Yuejie Chi, Ding Zhao
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023, New Orleans

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Your Room is not Private: Gradient Inversion Attack for Deep Q-Learning

Miao Li, Wenhao Ding, Ding Zhao
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024, Japan

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Bayesian Reparameterization of Reward-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning with Energy-based Models

Wenhao Ding*, Tong Che*, Ding Zhao, Marco Pavone
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2023, Hawaii

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What Went Wrong? Closing the Sim-to-Real Gap via Differentiable Causal Discovery

Peide Huang, Xilun Zhang*, Ziang Cao*, Shiqi Liu*, Mengdi Xu, Wenhao Ding, Jonathan Francis, Bingqing Chen, Ding Zhao
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2023, Atlanta

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Semantically Adversarial Driving Scenario Generation with Explicit Knowledge Integration

Wenhao Ding, Haohong Lin, Bo Li, Kim Ji Eun, Ding Zhao
Workshop on Environment Generation for Generalizable Robots (EGG) at RSS 2023
Workshop on Knowledge and Logical Reasoning in the Era of Data-driven Learning at ICML 2023

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Learning to View: Decision Transformers for Active Object Detection

Wenhao Ding, Nathalie Majcherczyk, Mohit Deshpande, Xuewei Qi, Ding Zhao, Rajasimman Madhivanan, Arnie Sen
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023, London

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A Survey on Safety-Critical Driving Scenario Generation -- A Methodological Perspective

Wenhao Ding, Chejian Xu, Mansur Arief, Haohong Lin, Bo Li, Ding Zhao
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), March, 2023

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Generalizing Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning with Variational Causal Reasoning

Wenhao Ding, Haohong Lin, Bo Li, Ding Zhao
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2022, New Orleans

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SafeBench: A Benchmarking Platform for Safety Evaluation of Autonomous Vehicles

Chejian Xu*, Wenhao Ding*, Weijie Lyu, Zuxin Liu, Shuai Wang, Yihan He, Hanjiang Hu, Ding Zhao, Bo Li
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2022, New Orleans

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CausalAF: Causal Autoregressive Flow for Safety-Critical Driving Scenario Generation

Wenhao Ding, Haohong Lin, Bo Li, Ding Zhao
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2022, New Zealand
Abridged in ICML 2022 Workshop on Safe Learning for Autonomous Driving

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Multimodal Safety-Critical Scenarios Generation for Decision-Making Algorithms Evaluation

Wenhao Ding, Baiming Chen, Bo Li, Kim Ji Eun, Ding Zhao
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) with ICRA 2021, Xi'an

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Task-Agnostic Online Reinforcement Learning with an Infinite Mixture of Gaussian Processes

Mengdi Xu, Wenhao Ding, Jiacheng Zhu, Zuxin Liu, Baiming Chen, Ding Zhao
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2020, Vancouver

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Learning to Collide: An Adaptive Safety-Critical Scenarios Generating Method

Wenhao Ding, Baiming Chen, Minjun Xu, Ding Zhao
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2020, Las Vegas

arXiv / code / video / bibtex

CMTS: Conditional Multiple Trajectory Synthesizer for Generating Safety-critical Driving Scenarios

Wenhao Ding, Mengdi Xu, Ding Zhao
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2020, Paris

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Conference Reviewer: ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, AISTATS, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, CoRL, ICRA, IROS, IJCAI, ICASSP, ITSC, ICME

Journal Reviewer: TMLR, IEEE RA-L, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE T-ITS, IEEE T-IV, IEEE Access, IEEE TII, IEEE MM, Scientific Report


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