The paper proposes a deployment‑focused framework for deadline‑constrained network control, introducing the Effective Congestion (EC) metric family and Uniform Path Grouping (UPG) heuristic to better capture traffic urgency and balance load. It integrates these with a Multi‑Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning architecture (MADRL EC (p*)) that combines a distributed scheduler and a centralized RL router. A unified training objective merges live‑reward, pre‑collected‑reward, and policy‑imitation terms, leading to the Model‑Guided Annealed Reinforcement Learning (MGA‑RL) protocol built on DDPG, which generalizes offline‑to‑online learning for demonstration‑driven training.
By Vincenzo Norman Vitale, Mohammad Solki, Antonia Maria Tulino, Andreas F. Molisch, Jaime Llorca
arXiv:2606. 03664v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ultra Reliable and Low Latency Communications (URLLC) was one of the main motivations behind 5G, with 3GPP advertising 1-10 ms latency targets for applications such as industrial automation, Vehicle-To-Everything (V2X), tactical edge networking, and unmanned-system control.
By Maxime Elkael, Michele Polese, Yunseong Lee, Koichiro Furueda, Tommaso Melodia
arXiv:2607. 03703v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for adaptive traffic signal control.
By Dickens Kwesiga, Nishu Choudhary, Angshuman Guin, Michael Hunter
SIGMA is a reinforcement‑learning framework for traffic signal control that incorporates a large language model to adaptively tune multiple objectives based on natural‑language emergency commands. It uses rotational data augmentation to learn orientation‑invariant policies and an offline‑to‑online training pipeline to ensure stable deployment. Experiments in SUMO on four Kolkata intersections show that SIGMA reduces waiting times, queue lengths, and improves throughput compared to fixed‑time, actuated, and DQN baselines, with ablation studies confirming robustness to component failures and geometric rotations.
By Pratham Payra, Jagadish B, Tanmay Sen, Tanujit Chakraborty
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:2503. 24183v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The expansion of ride-sourcing services such as Uber and Lyft has reshaped urban transportation by offering flexible, on-demand mobility via mobile applications.
By Matej Jusup, Kenan Zhang, Zhiyuan Hu, Barna P\'asztor, Andreas Krause, Francesco Corman
arXiv:2601. 18783v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Balancing safety, efficiency, and operational costs in highway driving poses a challenging decision-making problem for heavy-duty vehicles.
By Deepthi Pathare, Leo Laine, Morteza Haghir Chehreghani
arXiv:2501. 12942v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Effective multi-user delay-constrained scheduling is crucial in various real-world applications, including embodied AI, instant messaging, live streaming, and data center management, where efficient resource allocation is required among users with diverse delay sensitivities.
By Zhuoran Li, Ruishuo Chen, Hai Zhong, Longbo Huang
arXiv:2608.20858v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Transportation networks, in particular multi-class transportation networks (i.e., networks with mixed vehicle types), are complex systems that are ch...
By Giray Onur, Azita Dabiri, Bart De Schutter
arXiv:2607. 11725v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prefabricated prefinished volumetric construction moves most building work into module factories, whose production floor operates as a flexible job shop.
By Ziheng Zhang, Wei Zhang
The paper introduces Task Specialization Fine-Tuning (TSFT), an online framework that allocates a limited fine‑tuning budget across multiple task regions in Contextual Reinforcement Learning. TSFT predicts fine‑tuning performance with a simple parametric model and solves the budget allocation problem exactly using integer linear programming. Experiments on combinatorial optimization, continuous control, and LLM fine‑tuning show that TSFT outperforms baselines in task coverage and approaches oracle performance.
By Jianan Zhou, Jung-Hoon Cho, Tianyue Zhou, Han Zheng, Jie Zhang, Roy Dong, Yining Ma, Cathy Wu
arXiv:2608. 10207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bus bunching degrades service regularity and increases passenger waiting in high-frequency transit.
By Xin Dong, Vikash V. Gayah