Summary of An Offline Meta Black-box Optimization Framework For Adaptive Design Of Urban Traffic Light Management Systems, by Taeyoung Yun et al.
An Offline Meta Black-box Optimization Framework for Adaptive Design of Urban Traffic Light Management Systems
by Taeyoung Yun, Kanghoon Lee, Sujin Yun, Ilmyung Kim, Won-Woo Jung, Min-Cheol Kwon, Kyujin Choi, Yoohyeon Lee, Jinkyoo Park
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a novel framework for optimizing traffic light management systems in complex urban road networks with high vehicle occupancy. Current systems rely on human-crafted decisions, which may not adapt well to diverse traffic patterns. The proposed framework formulates the optimization of phase combination and phase time allocation using offline meta black-box optimization. It collects an offline meta dataset of design choices and corresponding congestion measures from various traffic patterns and employs the Attentive Neural Process (ANP) to predict the impact of the proposed design on congestion. Bayesian optimization is then used to find an optimal design for unseen traffic patterns through limited online simulations. The experiment results show that the method outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on complex road networks in terms of the number of waiting vehicles. The deployment of the method into a real-world traffic system improves traffic throughput by 4.80% compared to the original strategy. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making traffic lights work better in big cities with lots of cars. Right now, people make decisions about when to change the traffic lights based on what they think will help traffic move smoothly. But this system isn’t very good at handling different traffic patterns. The authors came up with a new way to optimize traffic light management using computer algorithms. They tested it and found that it works better than other methods in complex road networks, reducing congestion and making traffic move more efficiently. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Optimization
