高信頼下界近似に基づく強化学習によるフレキシブル路線交通の運行制御
Hi-CoLA: High Confidence Lower Bound Approximation Based Reinforcement Learning for Flex-Route Transit Operation Control
重要度サンプリングと集中不等式を微分可能な代理ネットワークと組み合わせ、高信頼性能下界を推定・最適化する強化学習フレームワークHi-CoLAを提案し、フレキシブル路線交通の運行制御で平均・テールリスク性能を改善した。
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著者: Qi Kang, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, Hongliang Guo, Jinhua Zhao
分類: cs.RO
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This paper studies safe policy improvement for real-time operation control of flex-route transit (FRT) systems, where robustness is critical and any performance decrease is undesirable. While reinforcement learning (RL) has shown strong empirical success, its adoption remains limited in safety and cost critical applications, such as intelligent transportation, since learned policies lack statistically certified performance guarantees before deployment. In this paper, we propose the High Confidence Lower Bound Approximation (Hi-CoLA) RL framework, which combines importance sampling and concentration inequalities with a differentiable surrogate network to efficiently estimate the high-confidence performance lower bound and optimize it via policy gradient for robust performance improvement. On the FRT operation control problem, Hi-CoLA outperforms state-of-the-art offline and safe RL methods in both average and tail-risk performance. A case study on an actual route in Chicago, implemented in the SUMO simulator, serves as a proof of concept. Hi-CoLA enhances real-time FRT control with guaranteed performance and is broadly applicable to other safety critical decision-making scenarios.