Neural LNS improves vehicle routing performance.
problem Optimizing vehicle routes with constraints.
method Integrates deep learning with large neighborhood search.
result Significantly outperforms existing methods on CVRP.
A framework for reinforcement learning tackles CVRP with competitive results.
problem Optimizing routes for vehicles with limited capacity.
method Formulates action selection as a mixed-integer optimization problem, uses policy iteration to improve policies.
result Achieves an average gap of 1.7% with state-of-the-art OR methods on CVRP instances.
Sym-NCO leverages symmetricities to improve DRL-NCO performance.
problem Improving neural combinatorial optimization methods.
method Sym-NCO is a regularizer-based training scheme that exploits universal symmetricities in CO problems and solutions.
result Sym-NCO significantly improves DRL-NCO performance across various CO tasks.
We present an end-to-end framework for solving the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) using reinforcement learning. In this approach, we train a single model that finds near-optimal solutions for problem instances sampled from a given distribution, only by observing the reward signals and following feasibility rules. Our mo…
Two DRL policies collaborate to solve NP-hard routing problems.
problem Solving complex routing problems like TSP without expert knowledge.
method Learning Collaborative Policies (LCP) using seeder and reviser policies.
result Improves solution quality over single-policy DRL on various NP-hard routing problems.
JAMPR learns to solve complex VRP with time windows.
problem Vehicle routing problems with time windows and vehicle capacities.
method Joint attention to construct multiple routes concurrently.
result JAMPR outperforms existing models on different problem sizes.
New machine learning pipeline solves dynamic vehicle routing problems efficiently.
problem Efficiently handling same day deliveries in e-commerce logistics.
method Combination of machine learning and combinatorial optimization.
result Ranked first in the EURO Meets NeurIPS Vehicle Routing Competition.
DPDP combines neural heuristics with DP for vehicle routing problems.
problem Vehicle routing problems with large scale.
method Deep Policy Dynamic Programming (DPDP) that uses a neural network policy to prioritize and restrict the DP state space.
result DPDP improves upon classical DP algorithms and outperforms neural approaches for TSP, VRP, and TSPTW.
Video games improve vehicle routing performance.
problem Optimizing vehicle routes with unpredictable passenger requests.
method Replaced vehicle routing with a game, trained agents to play.
result General game-playing agents outperform traditional methods.
New system assigns vehicles to routes for cost and energy efficiency.
problem Optimizing vehicle route assignment for cost and energy efficiency.
method Machine learning-based neural network algorithm to estimate energy consumption and provide real-time recommendations.
result Demonstrated efficient vehicle assignment for medium and heavy duty trucks.
A new dynamic attention model improves vehicle routing problem solutions.
problem Vehicle routing problems (VRP) are NP-hard and challenging to solve.
method Dynamic attention model with a dynamic encoder-decoder architecture.
result The model outperforms previous methods and shows good generalization.
Deep learning solves EV routing with time windows for EV fleets.
problem Electric vehicle routing with time windows for logistics.
method End-to-end deep reinforcement learning with attention model and graph embedding.
result Proposed model efficiently solves large EVRPTW instances.
Two heuristics solve dynamic multiple travelling salesmen problems.
problem Dynamic routing with unknown customers.
method Balanced dynamic closest vehicle heuristic and balanced dynamic assignment vehicle heuristic.
result Continuous approximation models for strategic dynamic routing.
Owing to the expeditious growth in the information and communication technologies, smart cities have raised the expectations in terms of efficient functioning and management. One key aspect of residents' daily comfort is assured through affording reliable traffic management and route planning. Comprehensively, the majo…
Search-based methods for hard combinatorial optimization are often guided by heuristics. Tuning heuristics in various conditions and situations is often time-consuming. In this paper, we propose NeuRewriter that learns a policy to pick heuristics and rewrite the local components of the current solution to iteratively i…
World wide road traffic fatality and accident rates are high, and this is true even in technologically advanced countries like the USA. Despite the advances in Intelligent Transportation Systems, safe transportation routing i.e., finding safest routes is largely an overlooked paradigm. In recent years, large amount of …
Equity-Transformer solves NP-hard min-max routing problems efficiently.
problem Min-max routing problems with multiple agents and large-scale applications.
method Sequential planning approach with Transformer and equitable workload distribution inductive biases.
result Significant runtime and cost reductions in min-max mTSP and min-max mPDP tasks.
SECRM-2D improves RL-based autonomous driving with safety guarantees.
problem Safety and efficiency trade-offs in RL-based autonomous driving.
method RL-based controller with safety constraints for efficient and comfortable driving.
result SECRM-2D avoids crashes and improves efficiency and comfort compared to baselines.
Predicts destinations and routes from partial trajectory data.
problem Predicting destinations and routes from partial trajectory data for applications like parking suggestions and ride-sharing.
method Three-step procedure: k-d tree-based space discretization, recurrent neural network for destination prediction, and route calculation.
result Best models predict destinations with a mean error of 1.3 km and 1.43 km.
New findings on null measurability in symmetrization interface of VC learning.
problem Null measurability issues in symmetrization interface of VC learning.
method Formalized in Lean 4, using Choquet capacitability and patching properties.
result Null-measurable bad event not Borel measurable, separating regularity levels.
Proposes a graph neural network for efficient multi-agent routing.
problem Routing multiple agents in complex, sparsely connected graphs with dynamic traffic.
method Value Iteration Network based on graph neural networks for online coordination.
result Significantly outperforms traditional methods in terms of cost and runtime.
A novel controller for wheeled robots handles joystick inputs for smooth steering.
problem Steering control for differential-drive wheeled robots from indirect joystick inputs.
method Developed a geometric controller based on Darboux frame kinematics.
result Smooth trajectories achieved with safety constraints and no desired states.
The recently presented idea to learn heuristics for combinatorial optimization problems is promising as it can save costly development. However, to push this idea towards practical implementation, we need better models and better ways of training. We contribute in both directions: we propose a model based on attention …
In this paper, we consider same-day delivery with vehicles and drones. Customers make delivery requests over the course of the day, and the dispatcher dynamically dispatches vehicles and drones to deliver the goods to customers before their delivery deadline. Vehicles can deliver multiple packages in one route but trav…
Smart mobility management would be an important prerequisite for future fog computing systems. In this research, we propose a learning-based handover optimization for the Internet of Vehicles that would assist the smooth transition of device connections and offloaded tasks between fog nodes. To accomplish this, we make…
Paper tackles inventory management with deep learning, improving performance and adherence to constraints.
problem Managing inventory with limited resources and constraints.
method Proposes a novel method to sample from a distribution of possible constraint paths, extends exo-IDP formulation, introduces neural coordinator, and uses modified DirectBackprop algorithm.
result Deep reinforcement learning policies with a neural coordinator outperform classic baselines in terms of performance and adherence to constraints.
Autonomous terrestrial vehicles must be capable of perceiving traffic lights and recognizing their current states to share the streets with human drivers. Most of the time, human drivers can easily identify the relevant traffic lights. To deal with this issue, a common solution for autonomous cars is to integrate recog…
Increasing availability of vehicle GPS data has created potentially transformative opportunities for traffic management, route planning and other location-based services. Critical to the utility of the data is their accuracy. Map-matching is the process of improving the accuracy by aligning GPS data with the road netwo…
Deep learning has revolutionized the ability to learn "end-to-end" autonomous vehicle control directly from raw sensory data. While there have been recent extensions to handle forms of navigation instruction, these works are unable to capture the full distribution of possible actions that could be taken and to reason a…
Global routing has been a historically challenging problem in electronic circuit design, where the challenge is to connect a large and arbitrary number of circuit components with wires without violating the design rules for the printed circuit boards or integrated circuits. Similar routing problems also exist in the de…
Convolutional neural networks are the most widely used deep learning algorithms for traffic signal classification till date but they fail to capture pose, view, orientation of the images because of the intrinsic inability of max pooling layer.This paper proposes a novel method for Traffic sign detection using deep lear…
Proposes a new model for predicting future motion of road actors in autonomous vehicles.
problem Forecasting the long-term future motion of road actors for safe autonomous driving.
method Recurrent graph-based attentional approach with interpretable geometric and social relationships.
result Can produce diverse predictions conditioned on hypothetical or 'what-if' scenarios.
Transformers improve solving mixed-integer programs, especially CLSP.
problem Solving Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem (CLSP) with mixed-integer programming.
method Employing transformer models to predict binary variables in CLSP.
result Transformer model outperforms CPLEX and LSTM in solving CLSP.
Paper revises power theory using classical mechanics concepts.
problem Clarifying instantaneous power definitions for circuit elements.
method Defines power using classical mechanics concepts like velocity and momentum.
result General and compact expression for inductance, capacitance, and resistance powers.
A new router uses attention-based reinforcement learning to solve detailed routing problems efficiently.
problem Solving detailed routing in integrated circuits while adhering to complex design rules.
method Attention-based reinforcement learning applied to track-assignment detailed routing.
result The attention router achieves over 100x acceleration compared to a genetic router without sacrificing solution quality.
Continuous monitoring of cardiac health under free living condition is crucial to provide effective care for patients undergoing post operative recovery and individuals with high cardiac risk like the elderly. Capacitive Electrocardiogram (cECG) is one such technology which allows comfortable and long term monitoring t…
In this short note we consider a dynamic assortment planning problem under the capacitated multinomial logit (MNL) bandit model. We prove a tight lower bound on the accumulated regret that matches existing regret upper bounds for all parameters (time horizon T, number of items N and maximum assortment capacity K)…
Optimal crypto asset routing with CFMMs, including fixed costs.
problem Optimizing order execution on a network of CFMMs with fixed costs.
method Convex optimization for no fixed costs, mixed-integer convex for fixed costs, heuristics for approximate solutions.
result Approximate solutions to optimal routing and arbitrage certification problems.
In this paper we study a robust expected utility maximization problem with random endowment in discrete time. We give conditions under which an optimal strategy exists and derive a dual representation for the optimal utility. Our approach is based on a general representation result for monotone convex functionals, a fu…
An active area of research is to increase the safety of self-driving vehicles. Although safety cannot be guarenteed completely, the capability of a vehicle to predict the future trajectories of its surrounding vehicles could help ensure this notion of safety to a greater deal. We cast the trajectory forecast problem in…
A new approach integrates inventory prediction and routing optimization for better supply chain management.
problem Optimizing efficient route selection in supply chain management with uncertain inventory demand.
method Decision-focused learning approach using neural networks to directly integrate inventory prediction and routing optimization.
result Direct integration of inventory prediction and routing optimization leads to better supply chain decisions.
Unified routing and arbitrage with concave continuation.
problem Combining routing and arbitrage in financial markets.
method Extending AMM trade functions to negative inputs via concave continuation.
result Unified approach unifies routing and arbitrage.
Proposes CPO framework for robust decision-making with explainable uncertainty regions.
problem Overly conservative uncertainty regions in data-driven optimization lead to suboptimal decisions.
method Conformal-Predict-Then-Optimize (CPO) framework using conditional generative models and visual summaries.
result Demonstrates improved robustness and explainability in decision-making.
Recursive KalmanNet generalizes well in noisy, out-of-distribution scenarios.
problem Generalization in noisy, out-of-distribution scenarios.
method Recurrent neural network guided by a Kalman filter.
result Recursive KalmanNet performs well in scenarios with different temporal dynamics from training data.
Linear-time graph optimization using reinforcement learning.
problem Solving combinatorial optimization problems on real-world graphs.
method Graph neural network trained with reinforcement learning.
result Approximate solutions in linear time for various graph problems.
Proposes CTSDG model for better vehicle intention prediction across domains.
problem Domain generalization for vehicle intention prediction in dynamic environments.
method Structural causal model with recurrent latent variable integration.
result Consistent improvement in prediction accuracy compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Generative model learns vehicle trajectory distributions for better data generalization.
problem Data sparsity and privacy issues in urban vehicle trajectory analysis.
method Generative adversarial imitation learning framework for urban vehicle trajectory generation.
result TrajGAIL model produces synthetic trajectories similar to real ones, achieving significant performance gains.
Deep learning improves vehicle control performance and generalizes well.
problem Designing a controller for autonomous vehicles in diverse scenarios.
method Application of deep learning methods for vehicle control.
result Deep learning methods provide excellent performance and generalization.