Optimizing Traffic Signal Control using High-Dimensional State Representation and Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning

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Main Authors: Francis, Lawrence, Guda, Blessed, Biyabani, Ahmed
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author Francis, Lawrence
Guda, Blessed
Biyabani, Ahmed
author_facet Francis, Lawrence
Guda, Blessed
Biyabani, Ahmed
contents In reinforcement learning-based (RL-based) traffic signal control (TSC), decisions on the signal timing are made based on the available information on vehicles at a road intersection. This forms the state representation for the RL environment which can either be high-dimensional containing several variables or a low-dimensional vector. Current studies suggest that using high dimensional state representations does not lead to improved performance on TSC. However, we argue, with experimental results, that the use of high dimensional state representations can, in fact, lead to improved TSC performance with improvements up to 17.9% of the average waiting time. This high-dimensional representation is obtainable using the cost-effective vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication, encouraging its adoption for TSC. Additionally, given the large size of the state, we identified the need to have computational efficient models and explored model compression via pruning.
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spellingShingle Optimizing Traffic Signal Control using High-Dimensional State Representation and Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning
Francis, Lawrence
Guda, Blessed
Biyabani, Ahmed
Systems and Control
Artificial Intelligence
In reinforcement learning-based (RL-based) traffic signal control (TSC), decisions on the signal timing are made based on the available information on vehicles at a road intersection. This forms the state representation for the RL environment which can either be high-dimensional containing several variables or a low-dimensional vector. Current studies suggest that using high dimensional state representations does not lead to improved performance on TSC. However, we argue, with experimental results, that the use of high dimensional state representations can, in fact, lead to improved TSC performance with improvements up to 17.9% of the average waiting time. This high-dimensional representation is obtainable using the cost-effective vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication, encouraging its adoption for TSC. Additionally, given the large size of the state, we identified the need to have computational efficient models and explored model compression via pruning.
title Optimizing Traffic Signal Control using High-Dimensional State Representation and Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning
topic Systems and Control
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07759