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New FLAT method improves sample-efficient traffic calibration for digital twins

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Researchers have developed FLAT, a novel method for sample-efficient traffic calibration in digital twins. This approach smooths the parameter-error landscape, making the objective learnable from a limited number of samples. FLAT couples optimization strategy with sampling location, utilizing an eight-dimensional behavioral fingerprint and an annealed lower-confidence-bound acquisition strategy. Tested across six real-world traffic scenes, FLAT-GP demonstrated superior performance, achieving the lowest average behavioral error and outperforming several baseline methods. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Haopeng Deng, Thomas He, Dayuan Wang ·

    FLAT: Smoothing the Rugged Landscape for Learnable, Sample-Efficient Traffic Calibration

    arXiv:2610.04337v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Calibrating microscopic traffic models for digital twins is an expensive black-box optimization problem: tuning car-following and lane-changing parameters requires a full simulation run, affording only a tight budget per r…

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