Summary of Lasil: Learner-aware Supervised Imitation Learning For Long-term Microscopic Traffic Simulation, by Ke Guo et al.
LASIL: Learner-Aware Supervised Imitation Learning For Long-term Microscopic Traffic Simulation
by Ke Guo, Zhenwei Miao, Wei Jing, Weiwei Liu, Weizi Li, Dayang Hao, Jia Pan
First submitted to arxiv on: 26 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel approach called learner-aware supervised imitation learning to improve microscopic traffic simulation. The traditional simulators rely on heuristic models, which often fail to deliver accurate simulations due to the complexity of real-world traffic environments. The covariate shift issue also affects existing imitation learning-based simulators, leading to unstable long-term simulations. To address this, the authors propose a variational autoencoder that simultaneously models the expert and learner state distribution, augmenting expert states with awareness of learner state distribution. The method is applied to urban traffic simulation, demonstrating significant improvements over existing baselines in both short-term microscopic and long-term macroscopic realism when evaluated on the real-world dataset pNEUMA. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Microscopic traffic simulation helps us understand how individual vehicles behave and how traffic flows. But creating a simulator that accurately replicates human driving behaviors is hard. Traditional simulators often fail because they don’t account for the complexity of real-world traffic. This paper proposes a new way to make simulators better by using imitation learning, which means training computers to act like humans. The authors want to solve the problem of “covariate shift,” where existing simulators can’t generate stable long-term simulations. They suggest using a special kind of computer program called a variational autoencoder to model expert and learner states. This helps improve the accuracy of their simulator when applied to urban traffic simulation. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Supervised * Variational autoencoder
