A Simplified Building Controls Environment with a Reinforcement Learning Application
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper has two contributions: (1) it describes the design and implementation of a thermal network based building zone emulator environment suitable for control applications with inputs and outputs matching those of the OpenAI Gym environments; and (2) the use of the environment to train a proximal policy optimization (PPO) reinforcement learning (RL) agent to maintain comfort for a house while minimizing the HVAC system energy consumption. The building controls environment can be extended to many other cases including training agents that can be mass-applied, studying the behaviour of communities and studying occupant behaviour and comfort. The trained RL agent was compared to conventional bang-bang and proportional-integral controllers. Given the penalty weights, the RL agent was more adept at minimizing equipment cycling thus improving equipment longevity and efficiency.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it