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48 results for traffic signal control

Paper proposes a deep RL approach for traffic signal control balancing efficiency and equity.

problem Inefficient and inflexible traffic signal controllers.
method Deep reinforcement learning with a novel reward function combining efficiency and equity.
result The proposed algorithm achieves state-of-the-art performance on various traffic scenarios.

Novel Bayesian meta-reinforcement learning framework improves traffic signal control robustness.

problem Lack of robustness and stability in adaptation for traffic signal control.
method Value-based Bayesian meta-reinforcement learning framework BM-DQN with fast-adaptation variation and DQN fast-update advantage.
result Framework adapts more quickly and robustly to new scenarios than previous methods.

IG-RL learns adaptive traffic signals for any network, outperforming existing methods.

problem Adaptive traffic signal control for large networks with combinatorial state and action spaces.
method Graph-Convolutional Networks for decentralized, flexible control.
result IG-RL generalizes to new networks and traffic conditions without additional training.

Traffic signal control is an important and challenging real-world problem, which aims to minimize the travel time of vehicles by coordinating their movements at the road intersections. Current traffic signal control systems in use still rely heavily on oversimplified information and rule-based methods, although we now …

2019-04-17abs ↗pdf ↗

MuJAM learns traffic signal control policies that generalize to unseen intersections and traffic conditions.

problem Lack of transferability in reinforcement learning methods for traffic signal control.
method Model-based graph reinforcement learning with explicit coordination and generalization to both cyclic and acyclic constraints.
result MuJAM outperforms existing methods in zero-shot and larger transfer settings.

GeneraLight improves traffic signal control models' generalization ability.

problem Overfitting and lack of generalization ability in RL TSC models.
method GeneraLight uses a meta-RL framework with a traffic flow generator based on GANs.
result GeneraLight significantly boosts generalization performance across different traffic flows.

Paper optimizes traffic signal control for better traffic flow.

problem Optimizing traffic signal control to reduce congestion and improve safety.
method Value-based reinforcement learning with interpretable policy functions (polynomial functions).
result Deep Regulatable Hardmax Q-learning variant reduces vehicle delay by up to 19.4%.

Increasingly available city data and advanced learning techniques have empowered people to improve the efficiency of our city functions. Among them, improving the urban transportation efficiency is one of the most prominent topics. Recent studies have proposed to use reinforcement learning (RL) for traffic signal contr…

2019-05-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a new model for controllable and realistic traffic simulation.

problem Lack of models that offer both controllability and realism in traffic simulation.
method Guided Conditional Diffusion (CTG) model using diffusion modeling and differentiable logic.
result Improves controllability-realism tradeoff over strong baselines.

The goal of this project is to introduce and present a machine learning application that aims to improve the quality of life of people in Singapore. In particular, we investigate the use of machine learning solutions to tackle the problem of traffic congestion in Singapore. In layman's terms, we seek to make Singapore …

2018-09-05abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper improves MARL for networked systems through new protocols and discount factors.

problem Improving control in networked systems using multi-agent reinforcement learning.
method Formulated as a spatiotemporal Markov decision process, introduced a spatial discount factor, and proposed NeurComm.
result Appropriate spatial discount factor enhances learning curves of non-communicative MARL algorithms.

This paper proposes a real-time signal plan recommendation system for traffic incidents.

problem Limited effectiveness of traffic incident management due to late response and workload.
method Decomposes recommendation task into real-time traffic prediction and plan association, learning from historical data and metric learning.
result Precision score of 96.75% and recall of 87.5% on testing plan, with 22.5 minutes lead time ahead of Waze alerts.

Survey of deep RL in intelligent transportation systems.

problem Optimizing traffic signals and autonomous driving using deep RL.
method Comprehensive review of deep RL applications in traffic control and autonomous driving.
result Summarizes existing works in deep RL-based transportation applications.

Reinforcement learning (RL) methods learn optimal decisions in the presence of a stationary environment. However, the stationary assumption on the environment is very restrictive. In many real world problems like traffic signal control, robotic applications, one often encounters situations with non-stationary environme…

2019-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Backdoor attacks on DRL-based traffic controllers cause stop-and-go waves or crashes.

problem Vulnerability of DRL-based traffic controllers to machine learning attacks.
method Developed a trigger design methodology based on traffic physics principles.
result Backdoored models can cause stop-and-go traffic waves or AV crashes when triggered.

We analyze the accuracy of traffic simulations metamodels based on neural networks and gradient boosting models (LightGBM), applied to traffic optimization as fitness functions of genetic algorithms. Our metamodels approximate outcomes of traffic simulations (the total time of waiting on a red signal) taking as an inpu…

2018-12-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep RL mimics human driving for collision avoidance in self-driving cars.

problem Developing human-like driving policies for autonomous vehicles in mixed traffic environments.
method Model-free, deep reinforcement learning approach using a combination of rule-based and expert-driven data.
result Demonstrated human-like driving policies through Gaussian process modeling of track position and speed distributions.

H-STGCN predicts traffic using navigation data and improves accuracy.

problem Limited accuracy in traffic forecasting due to lack of contextual information.
method Proposes H-STGCN, a hybrid spatio-temporal graph convolutional network.
result H-STGCN outperforms state-of-the-art methods in various metrics, especially for non-recurring congestion.

A new framework uses deep reinforcement learning to improve aircraft separation in busy airspace.

problem Improving aircraft separation in high-density, dynamic airspace constrained by human controllers.
method Proximal Policy Optimization with an attention network for distributed vehicle autonomy.
result The framework significantly reduces offline training time and increases performance.

BiCB combines traffic prediction and bidding optimization for live advertising.

problem Real-time bidding in live advertising with unknown future traffic.
method Binary Constrained Bidding (BiCB) that merges mathematical analysis and statistical traffic estimation.
result BiCB achieves good approximation to optimal bidding results with low complexity.

Bayesian model improves traffic prediction with uncertainty estimates.

problem Lack of uncertainty estimates in deep-learning traffic models.
method Proposes a Bayesian recurrent neural network with spectral normalization.
result Spectral normalization improves uncertainty estimates and generalizability.

Accurate and real-time traffic forecasting plays an important role in the Intelligent Traffic System and is of great significance for urban traffic planning, traffic management, and traffic control. However, traffic forecasting has always been considered an open scientific issue, owing to the constraints of urban road …

2018-11-12abs ↗pdf ↗

NCPF model improves traffic data imputation with neural and tensor methods.

problem Pervasive missing data in traffic analysis due to sensor failures and gaps.
method Neural Canonical Polyadic Factorization (NCPF) integrating CP decomposition and deep learning.
result NCPF outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in urban traffic datasets.

Paper proposes a new model for imputing missing spatiotemporal traffic data.

problem Missing data and sparsity in spatiotemporal traffic data.
method Low-rank tensor completion (LRTC) framework with truncated nuclear norm (TNN).
result The proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art imputation models in various scenarios.

This paper proposes MM-DAGs for analyzing traffic congestion, learning multiple DAGs jointly.

problem Analyzing multi-modal traffic data with overlapping and distinct variables.
method Developed MM-DAGs for multi-task, multi-modal DAG learning, using multi-modal regression and CD measure.
result Proved the effectiveness of MM-DAGs in traffic congestion analysis.

Deep learning model predicts traffic flows across entire network for multiple steps ahead.

problem Accurately forecasting future traffic flows across all network links.
method Spatial-Temporal Sequence to Sequence (STSeq2Seq) model combining seq2seq and graph convolution.
result STSeq2Seq achieves state-of-the-art performance in traffic forecasting.

This paper tackles traffic volume estimation challenges with a deep learning method.

problem Underdetermined and non-equilibrium traffic flows.
method Graph-based deep learning method with adaptive attention mechanisms.
result The proposed model achieves high accuracy even with low sensor coverage.

Traffic classification has various applications in today's Internet, from resource allocation, billing and QoS purposes in ISPs to firewall and malware detection in clients. Classical machine learning algorithms and deep learning models have been widely used to solve the traffic classification task. However, training s…

2019-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

A novel spatio-temporal graph neural network with a learnable Tweedie head improves vessel traffic flow prediction in sparse maritime data.

problem Accurate vessel traffic flow prediction in sparse maritime data.
method A model-agnostic learnable Tweedie head attached to ST-GNN backbones.
result The proposed head consistently improves RMSE across multiple ST-GNN backbones, especially on non-zero events.

Improves data efficiency in multi-agent control tasks using model-based reinforcement learning.

problem Limited data efficiency in reinforcement learning for multi-agent tasks.
method Decentralized model-based policy optimization (DMPO) framework.
result DMPO achieves superior data efficiency and matches model-free methods using true models.