arXiv AI By Judah Goldfeder, Ayush Rai, Philippe M. Wyder, Na Li, Victoria Dean, Donna Vakalis, Jiong Lin, Bing Dong, Michael Rossetti, Nathan Kutz, Sohei Arisaka, John Sipple, Hod Lipson, Yoshua Bengio

The Smart Buildings Challenge: Learning Foundation Models for Real-World Optimization at Scale

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arXiv AI
Jul 21

Building2Building: A Large Scale Benchmark for Generalizable Real-World Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607. 16534v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved strong results in control, yet learned policies remain brittle to changes in dynamics, action spaces, observation spaces, or goals, a critical limitation for real-world deployment.

By Vincent Taboga, Justin Veilleux, Doseok Jang, Anushree Rankawat, Pierre-Luc Bacon
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

Very Exciting: Zero-Shot Model Predictive Control of Buildings via Excitation-Based Generalized Transfer Learning Models

The paper presents a zero‑shot model predictive control (MPC) approach for buildings that uses excitation‑based generalized transfer learning models. By pretraining on purposefully probed operational data from multiple source buildings, the authors demonstrate that these models achieve superior control performance in 32 simulated target buildings, outperforming both an online linear MPC and a PI controller. This method eliminates the need for target‑specific data, reducing setup cost and facilitating broader deployment of energy‑efficient MPC in the building sector.

By Fabian Raisch, Felix Koch, Zack Xuereb Conti, Christoph Goebel, Benjamin Tischler