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Recent advancements in Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated notable promise in the realm of intelligent traffic signal control, facilitating the coordination across multiple intersections.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zhen Lei , Zhishu Shen , Kang Wang , Zhenwei Wang , Tiehua Zhang

Recently, deep learning methods have made great progress in traffic prediction, but their performance depends on a large amount of historical data. In reality, we may face the data scarcity issue. In this case, deep learning models fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Xueyan Yin , Feifan Li , Yanming Shen , Heng Qi , Baocai Yin

With the development of foundation models such as large language models, zero-shot transfer learning has become increasingly significant. This is highlighted by the generative capabilities of NLP models like GPT-4, and the retrieval-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yuhan Li , Peisong Wang , Zhixun Li , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Jia Li

Smart and decentralized control systems have recently been proposed to handle the growing traffic congestion in urban cities. Proposed smart traffic light solutions based on Wireless Sensor Network and Vehicular Ad-hoc NETwork are either…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Willy Carlos Tchuitcheu , Christophe Bobda , Md Jubaer Hossain Pantho

Urban traffic control is a system-level coordination problem spanning heterogeneous subsystems, including traffic signals, freeways, public transit, and taxi services. Existing optimization-based, reinforcement learning (RL), and emerging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Siqi Lai , Pan Zhang , Yuping Zhou , Jindong Han , Yansong Ning , Hao Liu

We propose AttendLight, an end-to-end Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm for the problem of traffic signal control. Previous approaches for this problem have the shortcoming that they require training for each new intersection with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Afshin Oroojlooy , Mohammadreza Nazari , Davood Hajinezhad , Jorge Silva

Efficient traffic control (TSC) is essential for urban mobility, but traditional systems struggle to handle the complexity of real-world traffic. Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) offers adaptive solutions, but online MARL requires…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Rohit Bokade , Xiaoning Jin

Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning (MADRL) based traffic signal control becomes a popular research topic in recent years. To alleviate the scalability issue of completely centralized RL techniques and the non-stationarity issue of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Hankang Gu , Shangbo Wang , Xiaoguang Ma , Dongyao Jia , Guoqiang Mao , Eng Gee Lim , Cheuk Pong Ryan Wong

How to coordinate the communication among intersections effectively in real complex traffic scenarios with multi-intersection is challenging. Existing approaches only enable the communication in a heuristic manner without considering the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Qize Jiang , Minhao Qin , Shengmin Shi , Weiwei Sun , Baihua Zheng

In this paper, hypernetworks are trained to generate behaviors across a range of unseen task conditions, via a novel TD-based training objective and data from a set of near-optimal RL solutions for training tasks. This work relates to meta…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Sahand Rezaei-Shoshtari , Charlotte Morissette , Francois Robert Hogan , Gregory Dudek , David Meger

Urban traffic is subject to disruptions that cause extended waiting time and safety issues at signalized intersections. While numerous studies have addressed the issue of intelligent traffic systems in the context of various disturbances,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Qinchen Yang , Zejun Xie , Hua Wei , Desheng Zhang , Yu Yang

Traffic signal controllers play an essential role in today's traffic system. However, the majority of them currently is not sufficiently flexible or adaptive to generate optimal traffic schedules. In this paper we present an approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Shengchao Yan , Jingwei Zhang , Daniel Büscher , Wolfram Burgard

Single occupancy vehicles are the most attractive transportation alternative for many commuters, leading to increased traffic congestion and air pollution. Advancements in information technologies create opportunities for smart solutions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Dimitris M. Vlachogiannis , Hua Wei , Scott Moura , Jane Macfarlane

Given a resource-rich source graph and a resource-scarce target graph, how can we effectively transfer knowledge across graphs and ensure a good generalization performance? In many high-impact domains (e.g., brain networks and molecular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Yuzhen Mao , Jianhui Sun , Dawei Zhou

Reinforcement learning (RL) is gaining popularity as an effective approach for traffic signal control (TSC) and is increasingly applied in this domain. However, most existing RL methodologies are confined to a single-stage TSC framework,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Liang Zhang , Yutong Zhang , Shubin Xie , Jianming Deng , Chen Li

This paper considers optimal traffic signal control in smart cities, which has been taken as a complex networked system control problem. Given the interacting dynamics among traffic lights and road networks, attaining controller adaptivity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Yao Zhang , Zhiwen Yu , Jun Zhang , Liang Wang , Tom H. Luan , Bin Guo , Chau Yuen

A macroscopic model is proposed to depict the traffic dynamics involved in urban traffic systems. The link dynamics are described based on the cell-transmission model and bounded by the link capacities, while the flow dynamics are proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Yicheng Zhang

Traffic accidents result in millions of injuries and fatalities globally, with a significant number occurring at intersections each year. Traffic Signal Control (TSC) is an effective strategy for enhancing safety at these urban junctures.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Mingyuan Li , Chunyu Liu , Zhuojun Li , Xiao Liu , Guangsheng Yu , Bo Du , Jun Shen , Qiang Wu

The intelligent control of the traffic signal is critical to the optimization of transportation systems. To achieve global optimal traffic efficiency in large-scale road networks, recent works have focused on coordination among…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Junjia Liu , Huimin Zhang , Zhuang Fu , Yao Wang

Sub-optimal control policies in transportation systems negatively impact mobility, the environment and human health. Developing optimal transportation control systems at the appropriate scale can be difficult as cities' transportation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Wade Genders , Saiedeh Razavi