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Agents of Disruption: How LLMs Became Adversarial Testers for Autonomous Driving

The promise of fully autonomous vehicles hinges on their ability to handle not just the average drive—but the unexpected. Yet, creating rare, safety-critical scenarios for testing autonomous driving (AD) systems has long been a bottleneck. Manual scene creation doesn’t scale. Generative models often drift away from real-world distributions. And collecting edge cases on the road? Too dangerous, too slow. Enter AGENTS-LLM, a deceptively simple yet powerful framework that uses Large Language Models (LLMs) not to solve traffic scenes, but to break them. The twist? These aren’t just static prompts or synthetic scripts. AGENTS-LLM organizes LLMs into a multi-agent, modular system that modifies real traffic scenarios with surgical precision—making them trickier, nastier, and far more useful for evaluating planning systems. ...

July 21, 2025 · 3 min · Zelina