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2025

  1. Preprint
    CurricuVLM: Towards Safe Autonomous Driving via Personalized Safety-Critical Curriculum Learning with Vision-Language Models
    Zihao Sheng+, Zilin Huang+, Yansong Qu, Yue Leng, Sruthi Bhavanam, and Sikai Chen*
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.15119 (Preprint) , 2025
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2024

  1. Preprint
    VLM-RL: A Unified Vision Language Models and Reinforcement Learning Framework for Safe Autonomous Driving
    Zilin Huang+, Zihao Sheng+, Yansong Qu+, Junwei You, and Sikai Chen*
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.15544 (Preprint) , 2024
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  2. Preprint
    Trustworthy Human-AI Collaboration: Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback and Physics Knowledge for Safe Autonomous Driving
    Zilin Huang, Zihao Sheng, and Sikai Chen*
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.00858 (Preprint) , 2024
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  3. COMMTR
    Human as AI mentor: Enhanced human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning for safe and efficient autonomous driving
    Zilin Huang, Zihao Sheng, Chengyuan Ma, and Sikai Chen*
    Communications in Transportation Research (COMMTR) , 2024
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  4. COMMTR
    Traffic expertise meets residual RL: Knowledge-informed model-based residual reinforcement learning for CAV trajectory control
    Zihao Sheng, Zilin Huang, and Sikai Chen
    Communications in Transportation Research (COMMTR) , 2024
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  5. IEEE-TITS
    Toward C-V2X Enabled Connected Transportation System: RSU-Based Cooperative Localization Framework for Autonomous Vehicles
    Zilin Huang, Sikai Chen*, Yuzhuang Pian, Zihao Sheng, Soyoung Ahn, and David A Noyce
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE-TITS) , 2024
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  6. CACIE
    Ego-planning-guided multi-graph convolutional network for heterogeneous agent trajectory prediction
    Zihao Sheng, Zilin Huang, and Sikai Chen*
    Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (CACIE) , 2024
  7. JICV
    Kinematics-aware multigraph attention network with residual learning for heterogeneous trajectory prediction
    Zihao Sheng, Zilin Huang, and Sikai Chen*
    Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles (JICV) , 2024