arXiv AI By Xi Cheng, Ke Liu, Siyuan Feng, Jane Lin, H. Oliver Gao

Cost-Optimal Foundation Model Deployment Portfolio for Transportation Management

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arXiv:2607. 13239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models, including large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs), are increasingly used for transportation management center (TMC) tasks such as anomaly detection, incident reporting, and traveler information.

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