Summary of Mtlight: Efficient Multi-task Reinforcement Learning For Traffic Signal Control, by Liwen Zhu et al.
MTLight: Efficient Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Signal Control
by Liwen Zhu, Peixi Peng, Zongqing Lu, Yonghong Tian
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising results in traffic signal control, but faces challenges such as limited performances and sample inefficiency. To address these issues, the proposed MTLight enhances the agent observation by incorporating a latent state learned from various traffic indicators. The latent state is learned through multiple auxiliary and supervisory tasks, utilizing task-specific features and task-shared features to increase its abundance. Experimental results on CityFlow demonstrate MTLight’s leading convergence speed and asymptotic performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Traffic signal control is important for reducing congestion in cities. Researchers used deep reinforcement learning (RL) to control signals, but had some problems like not doing well or using too many examples. To fix these issues, they created a new system called MTLight that adds more information about traffic to the agent’s observations. They used lots of different tasks to learn this new information and it helped them do better. The results were tested on a city traffic dataset and showed that MTLight was fast and did well even when things got harder. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Reinforcement learning
