MIT's Cathy Wu applies reinforcement learning to transportation systems
MIT Associate Professor Cathy Wu uses reinforcement learning to map improvements to transportation and other multifaceted systems, according to an MIT News profile. Her computational tools target society's most complex challenges, applying RL methods to understand and optimize large-scale networks such as urban mobility.
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