LLMLight: Large Language Models as Traffic Signal Control Agents

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.16044v4
• Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 13:21:38 GMT
• Title: LLMLight: Large Language Models as Traffic Signal Control Agents
• Authors: Siqi Lai, Zhao Xu, Weijia Zhang, Hao Liu and Hui Xiong
• Abstract summary: Traffic Signal Control (TSC) is a crucial component in urban traffic management, aiming to optimize road network efficiency and reduce congestion. This paper presents LLMLight, a novel framework employing Large Language Models (LLMs) as decision-making agents for TSC.
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• Abstract: Traffic Signal Control (TSC) is a crucial component in urban traffic management, aiming to optimize road network efficiency and reduce congestion. Traditional methods in TSC, primarily based on transportation engineering and reinforcement learning (RL), often exhibit limitations in generalization across varied traffic scenarios and lack interpretability. This paper presents LLMLight, a novel framework employing Large Language Models (LLMs) as decision-making agents for TSC. Specifically, the framework begins by instructing the LLM with a knowledgeable prompt detailing real-time traffic conditions. Leveraging the advanced generalization capabilities of LLMs, LLMLight engages a reasoning and decision-making process akin to human intuition for effective traffic control. Moreover, we build LightGPT, a specialized backbone LLM tailored for TSC tasks. By learning nuanced traffic patterns and control strategies, LightGPT enhances the LLMLight framework cost-effectively. Extensive experiments on nine real-world and synthetic datasets showcase the remarkable effectiveness, generalization ability, and interpretability of LLMLight against nine transportation-based and RL-based baselines.

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