arXiv AI

Explainable Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Traffic Signal Control

arXiv:2607. 03703v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for adaptive traffic signal control.

arXiv AI
Jun 29

OverFlowLight: Real-Time Gridlock Prevention and Traffic Signal Optimization for Urban Intersections

arXiv:2606. 27381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Queue overflow, a severe consequence of urban traffic congestion, occurs when vehicle queues exceed intersection capacity, obstructing upstream traffic and triggering cascading gridlocks.

By Mingyuan Li, Boyang Huang, Tianqi Jiang, Chenpu Li, Chunyu Liu, Yang Li, Ruimin Li, Qiang Wu
arXiv Machine Learning
6d ago

Language-Structured Relational Q-Learning for Threat-Aware Control in Safety-Critical Driving

arXiv:2608. 11498v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural-language-based scenario generation offers an intuitive means of describing rare and complex driving interactions, yet it is still uncertain whether training with language-structured data leads to truly adaptive control policies.

By Aditya Humnabadkar, Huaizhong Zhang, Ardhendu Behera
arXiv AI
Jun 2

TrafficClaw: A Generalizable LLM Agent in the Unified Physical Environment for Urban Traffic Control

arXiv:2604. 17456v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents have shown strong capabilities in long-horizon reasoning, tool use, and decision-making in digital environments, yet extending them to physically grounded systems remains challenging.

By Siqi Lai, Pan Zhang, Yuping Zhou, Jindong Han, Yansong Ning, Hao Liu
arXiv AI
Jul 3

DriveVLM-RL: Neuroscience-Inspired Reinforcement Learning with Vision-Language Models for Safe and Deployable Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2603. 18315v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Traditional reinforcement learning (RL) methods rely on manually engineered rewards or sparse collision signals, which fail to capture the rich contextual understanding required for safe driving and make unsafe exploration unavoidable in real-world settings.

By Zilin Huang, Zihao Sheng, Zhengyang Wan, Yansong Qu, Junwei You, Sicong Jiang, Sikai Chen
arXiv AI
Jun 29

hia-gat: A Heterogeneous Interaction-Aware Graph Attention Network For Frame-Level Traffic Conflict Risk Prediction On Freeways

arXiv:2606. 27577v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper formulates frame-level freeway risk assessment as a multi-agent scene graph-level binary classification problem, where each video or trajectory frame is labeled risky if any TTC- or PET-based conflict violates a specified severity threshold.

By Mahshid Malazizi, Seyedmehdi Khaleghian, Mina Sartipi, Toru Hirano, Yunfei Xu, Hoang H. Nguyen
arXiv AI
Jun 16

OmniTraffic: A Controllable Generation Pipeline and Benchmark for Spatio-Temporal Traffic Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 15749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traffic scene understanding requires models to reason beyond object recognition, including lane topology, multi-view geometry, temporal evolution, and signal-phase semantics.

By Maonan Wang, Zhengyan Huang, Kemou Jiang, Yuhang Fu, Jiayue Zhu, Yuxin Cai, Xingchen Zou, Qiaosheng Zhang, Yi Yu, Ding Wang, Xi Chen, Ben M. Chen, Yuxuan Liang, Zhiyong Cui, Man On Pun, Yirong Chen
arXiv AI
Aug 12

Threat-guided Policy-aware Scene Perturbation for Safe Autonomous Driving with Online Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608. 10403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising performance in autonomous driving, yet ensuring the safety of online RL policies remains challenging due to insufficient exposure to safety-critical driving scenes.

By Xincong Hu (Nanjing University), Lei Ou (Nanjing University), Maosen Li (Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd), Jingtao Zhang (Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd), Liguo Hou (Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd), Zongzhang Zhang (Nanjing University)
arXiv AI
Jun 16

ROSA-RL: Uncertainty-Aware Roundabout Optimized Speed Advisory with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 16558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Roundabouts challenge automated driving in mixed traffic, as heterogeneous and non-deterministic human behavior, unknown driving intentions, and high interaction complexity create uncertainty about whether the conflict zone will be blocked or available at the moment of entry.

By Anna-Lena Schlamp, Jeremias Gerner, Klaus Bogenberger, Werner Huber, Stefanie Schmidtner