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Abstract: With the acceleration of urbanization, traditional street lighting systems face growing challenges in meeting energy-saving requirements in line with carbon peak and neutrality targets ...

Abstract: This letter develops a novel optimization-based inverse reinforcement learning (RL) control algorithm that infers the minimal cost from observed demonstrations via optimization-based policy ...