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This research introduces an innovative adaptive model crafted to amplify nighttime driving detection precision. The model integrates a specially conceived Confidence Iterative Generative Adversarial Network (CI-GAN) with Adaptive Fine-Tuning, ensuring persistent model enhancement. While safeguarding the foundational features of the initial model, our strategy optimally acclimatizes the model to multifarious nighttime nuances. In daylight conditions, CI-GAN deploys a confidence iterative learning tactic to aptly steer the generative network, subsequently boosting its generative velocity. In tandem, during nocturnal periods, it ceaselessly refines its discriminator, prompting CI-GAN to produce images that bear a closer resemblance to authentic nighttime vistas. Adaptive Fine-Tuning incorporates a differential optimization technique grounded in transfer learning. This obviates the traditionally tedious manual layer selection process, instead harnessing the algorithm's expansive search potential to pinpoint the most effective fine-tuning methodology. Empirical analyses affirm that our refined model progressively elevates nighttime detection capabilities, all while maintaining the original model's inference velocity and dimensions. This advancement diverges from conventional methods that preprocess nighttime imagery prior to detection. Instead, it equips the model to dynamically evolve within nighttime environments, offering fresh insights and techniques for enhancing nighttime driving detection. Nighttime Detection GAN Transfer Learning Fine-Tuning Autonomous Driving Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. 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