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Driving Like Yourself: A Benchmark for Closed-Loop Personalized End-to-End Autonomous Driving

arXiv 2602.18757 ↗First posted 21 Feb 2026cs.CVcited by 1

On the map: End-to-end autonomous driving → Imitation-learning end-to-end planners

Abstract (arXiv)

Human driving behavior is inherently diverse, yet most end-to-end autonomous driving (E2E-AD) systems learn a single average driving style, neglecting individual differences. Achieving personalized E2E-AD faces challenges across three levels: limited real-world datasets with individual-level annotations, a lack of quantitative metrics for evaluating personal driving styles, and the absence of algorithms that can learn stylized representations from users' trajectories. To address these gaps, we propose Person2Drive, a comprehensive personalized E2E-AD platform and benchmark. It includes an open-source, flexible data collection system that simulates realistic scenarios to generate scalable, diverse personalized driving datasets; style vector-based evaluation metrics with Maximum Mean Discrepancy and KL divergence to comprehensively quantify individual driving behaviors; and a personalized E2E-AD framework with a style reward model that efficiently adapts E2E models for safe and individualized driving. Crucially, our framework enables plug-and-play personalization by fine-tuning only the trajectory prediction head, preserving the pretrained base model and ensuring safety. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Person2Drive enables fine-grained analysis and effective personalization, while preserving driving performance and success rate even in challenging scenarios.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Imitation-learning end-to-end planners, one of 9 directions in End-to-end autonomous driving. Builds on 21 of its 34 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 21 Feb 2026.

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  1. 2025StyleDrive: Towards Driving-Style Aware Benchmarking of End-To-End Autonomous Driving30 Jun
  2. 2024DiffusionDrive: Truncated Diffusion Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving22 Nov

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  2. 2026STAGE: STyle-controllable Action GEneration for personalized autonomous driving
  3. 2026PersonaDrive: Human-Style Retrieval-Augmented VLA Agents for Closed-Loop Driving Simulation
  4. 2024From Words to Wheels: Automated Style-Customized Policy Generation for Autonomous Driving
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