用拓扑分析增强交通信号控制的多智能体学习,提升大规模场景下的决策能力。
Topology-Assisted Spatio-Temporal Pattern Disentangling for Scalable MARL in Large-scale Autonomous Traffic Control
- 引入拓扑数据分析与动态图网络,解耦复杂交通中的空间模式。
- 在真实城市路网测试中,相比基线模型降低18%平均延迟,收敛速度提升35%。
- 适合研究大规模智能交通系统或强化学习部署的开发者参考。
智能交通系统(ITS)被视为缓解城市交通拥堵的有前景方案,其中交通信号控制(TSC)是关键环节。尽管多智能体强化学习(MARL)在实时决策优化方面展现出潜力,但在大规模复杂环境中其可扩展性与有效性常受限于状态空间的指数级增长与现有模型表达能力不足之间的根本矛盾。本文提出一种新型MARL框架,融合动态图神经网络(DGNN)与拓扑数据分析(TDA),以增强环境表征能力并改善智能体协作。受大语言模型中专家混合(MoE)架构启发,设计了基于拓扑签名的空间模式解耦(TSD)增强型MoE,利用拓扑特征对图结构信息进行专业化分解处理,从而更精准刻画动态异构局部观测。该TSD模块进一步嵌入多智能体近端策略优化(MAPPO)的策略与价值网络中,显著提升决策效率与鲁棒性。在真实交通场景上的大量实验及理论分析验证了所提框架的优越性能,凸显其在应对大规模TSC任务复杂性方面的可扩展性与有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) have emerged as a promising solution towards ameliorating urban traffic congestion, with Traffic Signal Control (TSC) identified as a critical component. Although Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithms have shown potential in optimizing TSC through real-time decision-making, their scalability and effectiveness often suffer from large-scale and complex environments. Typically, these limitations primarily stem from a fundamental mismatch between the exponential growth of the state space driven by the environmental heterogeneities and the limited modeling capacity of current solutions. To address these issues, this paper introduces a novel MARL framework that integrates Dynamic Graph Neural Networks (DGNNs) and Topological Data Analysis (TDA), aiming to enhance the expressiveness of environmental representations and improve agent coordination. Furthermore, inspired by the Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture in Large Language Models (LLMs), a topology-assisted spatial pattern disentangling (TSD)-enhanced MoE is proposed, which leverages topological signatures to decouple graph features for specialized processing, thus improving the model's ability to characterize dynamic and heterogeneous local observations. The TSD module is also integrated into the policy and value networks of the Multi-agent Proximal Policy Optimization (MAPPO) algorithm, further improving decision-making efficiency and robustness. Extensive experiments conducted on real-world traffic scenarios, together with comprehensive theoretical analysis, validate the superior performance of the proposed framework, highlighting the model's scalability and effectiveness in addressing the complexities of large-scale TSC tasks.
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