Aurora Operations, Inc.

Deere & Company

Carnegie Mellon University

Uatc, LLC

Carl Wellington

Herman Herman

Scott Klaus Boehmke

David Patrick Rice

Aaron J Bruns

James Joseph Phelan

John M Hageman

Michael Bode

Arun Venkatraman

Micol Marchetti-Bowick

J Andrew Bagnell

Eric Meyhofer

Cristian Dima

Venkatraman Narayanan

Joan Campoy

Sumit Kumar

Victor S Sierra

Yuhang Ma

Pengju Jin

Hanke Boesch

Sanjiban Choudry

Carlos Vallespi

Cason Male

Zach Pezzementi

The present disclosure provides an example method that includes: (a) obtaining context data descriptive of an environment surrounding an autonomous vehicle, the context data based on map data and perception data; (b) generating, by a proposer and based on the context data: (i) a plurality of candidate trajectories, and (ii) a plurality of actor forecasts for a plurality of actors in the environment; (c) generating, by a ranker and based on the context data, the plurality of candidate trajectories, and the plurality of actor forecasts, a ranking of the plurality of candidate trajectories; and (d) controlling a motion of the autonomous vehicle based on a candidate trajectory selected based on the ranking of the plurality of candidate trajectories, wherein the proposer comprises a first machine-learned model and the ranker comprises a second machine-learned model, and wherein the first machine-learned model and the second machine-learned model use a common backbone architecture.

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