ReasonLight: A Multimodal Foundation Model-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning Framework for Zero-Shot Traffic Signal Control
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| author | Pang, Aoyu Wang, Maonan Xie, Yuejiao Chen, Chung Shue Yang, Zhiwei Pun, Man-On |
| author_facet | Pang, Aoyu Wang, Maonan Xie, Yuejiao Chen, Chung Shue Yang, Zhiwei Pun, Man-On |
| contents | Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promise in traffic signal control (TSC). However, its reliance on predefined states limits responsiveness to observable open-world events that are absent from training data. IoT-enabled intersections provide heterogeneous observations from roadside sensors and cameras, creating opportunities to improve RL adaptability to such events. To this end, we propose ReasonLight, a multimodal foundation model-enhanced RL framework for zero-shot TSC. ReasonLight integrates three sources of information: structured traffic measurements, multi-view camera observations, and candidate phase decisions from a pre-trained RL controller. Given an RL-proposed phase, ReasonLight extracts visual semantics from multi-view images and aligns them with compact sensor-derived scene descriptions. This alignment enables a semantic-guided refinement module to either preserve or adjust the proposed action according to traffic rules and event semantics. To ensure operational reliability, refined actions are constrained by the set of available phases. Any invalid decision is rejected, and the system falls back to the original RL action. We evaluate ReasonLight on two types of rare events not seen during RL training: emergency vehicle priority and temporary traffic regulation. Experimental results show that ReasonLight achieves zero-shot adaptation without retraining. It reduces emergency vehicle waiting time by up to 88.7% compared with the RL-only backbone while preserving comparable routine traffic performance. |
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| spellingShingle | ReasonLight: A Multimodal Foundation Model-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning Framework for Zero-Shot Traffic Signal Control Pang, Aoyu Wang, Maonan Xie, Yuejiao Chen, Chung Shue Yang, Zhiwei Pun, Man-On Artificial Intelligence Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promise in traffic signal control (TSC). However, its reliance on predefined states limits responsiveness to observable open-world events that are absent from training data. IoT-enabled intersections provide heterogeneous observations from roadside sensors and cameras, creating opportunities to improve RL adaptability to such events. To this end, we propose ReasonLight, a multimodal foundation model-enhanced RL framework for zero-shot TSC. ReasonLight integrates three sources of information: structured traffic measurements, multi-view camera observations, and candidate phase decisions from a pre-trained RL controller. Given an RL-proposed phase, ReasonLight extracts visual semantics from multi-view images and aligns them with compact sensor-derived scene descriptions. This alignment enables a semantic-guided refinement module to either preserve or adjust the proposed action according to traffic rules and event semantics. To ensure operational reliability, refined actions are constrained by the set of available phases. Any invalid decision is rejected, and the system falls back to the original RL action. We evaluate ReasonLight on two types of rare events not seen during RL training: emergency vehicle priority and temporary traffic regulation. Experimental results show that ReasonLight achieves zero-shot adaptation without retraining. It reduces emergency vehicle waiting time by up to 88.7% compared with the RL-only backbone while preserving comparable routine traffic performance. |
| title | ReasonLight: A Multimodal Foundation Model-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning Framework for Zero-Shot Traffic Signal Control |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29425 |