Multi-agent Reinforcement Traffic Signal Control based on Interpretable Influence Mechanism and Biased ReLU Approximation

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Autori principali: Luo, Zhiyue, Xu, Jun, Chen, Fanglin
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author Luo, Zhiyue
Xu, Jun
Chen, Fanglin
author_facet Luo, Zhiyue
Xu, Jun
Chen, Fanglin
contents Traffic signal control is important in intelligent transportation system, of which cooperative control is difficult to realize but yet vital. Many methods model multi-intersection traffic networks as grids and address the problem using multi-agent reinforcement learning (RL). Despite these existing studies, there is an opportunity to further enhance our understanding of the connectivity and globality of the traffic networks by capturing the spatiotemporal traffic information with efficient neural networks in deep RL. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-agent actor-critic framework based on an interpretable influence mechanism with a centralized learning and decentralized execution method. Specifically, we first construct an actor-critic framework, for which the piecewise linear neural network (PWLNN), named biased ReLU (BReLU), is used as the function approximator to obtain a more accurate and theoretically grounded approximation. Finally, our proposed framework is validated on two synthetic traffic networks to coordinate signal control between intersections, achieving lower traffic delays across the entire traffic network compared to state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance.
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spellingShingle Multi-agent Reinforcement Traffic Signal Control based on Interpretable Influence Mechanism and Biased ReLU Approximation
Luo, Zhiyue
Xu, Jun
Chen, Fanglin
Multiagent Systems
Traffic signal control is important in intelligent transportation system, of which cooperative control is difficult to realize but yet vital. Many methods model multi-intersection traffic networks as grids and address the problem using multi-agent reinforcement learning (RL). Despite these existing studies, there is an opportunity to further enhance our understanding of the connectivity and globality of the traffic networks by capturing the spatiotemporal traffic information with efficient neural networks in deep RL. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-agent actor-critic framework based on an interpretable influence mechanism with a centralized learning and decentralized execution method. Specifically, we first construct an actor-critic framework, for which the piecewise linear neural network (PWLNN), named biased ReLU (BReLU), is used as the function approximator to obtain a more accurate and theoretically grounded approximation. Finally, our proposed framework is validated on two synthetic traffic networks to coordinate signal control between intersections, achieving lower traffic delays across the entire traffic network compared to state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance.
title Multi-agent Reinforcement Traffic Signal Control based on Interpretable Influence Mechanism and Biased ReLU Approximation
topic Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13639