Winning the CityLearn Challenge: Adaptive Optimization with Evolutionary Search under Trajectory-based Guidance

Presents a method that uses optimization solution functions as policies for sequential decision-making and adapts model parameters online via an evolutionary algorithm with trajectory-based guidance. The approach has formal global convergence guarantees and won the 2021 CityLearn Challenge, achieving superior performance across metrics while maintaining interpretability.

Authors

Vanshaj Khattar

Ming Jin

Published

January 1, 2023