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Parameterized-action based deep reinforcement learning for intelligent traffic signal control

2025· article· en· W4412073741 on OpenAlexaff
Salah Bouktif, Abderraouf Cheniki, Ali Ouni, Hesham El‐Sayed

Bibliographic record

VenueEngineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicTraffic control and management
Canadian institutionsÉcole de Technologie SupérieureUniversité du Québec à Montréal
FundersDepartment of Education and KnowledgeUnited Arab Emirates UniversityAdvanced Technology Research Council
KeywordsComputer scienceReinforcement learningParameterized complexitySIGNAL (programming language)Artificial intelligenceAction (physics)Control (management)Error-driven learningTraffic signalHuman–computer interactionMachine learningReal-time computingAlgorithmProgramming language

Abstract

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Traffic Signal Control (TSC) is a crucial component in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) for optimizing traffic flow. Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) techniques have emerged as leading approaches for TSC due to their promising performance. Most existing DRL-based approaches typically use discrete action spaces to predict the next action phase, without specifying the signal duration. In contrast, some studies employ continuous action spaces to determine signal phase timing within a fixed light cycle. To address the limitations of both approaches, we propose a flexible framework that predicts both the appropriate traffic light phase along with its associated duration. Our approach utilizes a Parameterized-action based deep reinforcement learning architecture to handle the combination of discrete-continuous actions. We evaluate our method using the Simulation of Urban MObility (SUMO) environment, comparing its efficiency against state-of-the-art techniques. Results demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms traditional and learning-based methods.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.023

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.253
Teacher spread0.236 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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