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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Learning how to automatically solve optimization problems has the potential to provide the next big leap in optimization technology. The performance of automatically learned heuristics on routing problems has been steadily improving in recent years, but approaches based purely on machine learning are still outperformed…
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.
New method tackles parcel routing with AI.
problem Routing parcels efficiently through a network of hubs.
method Combines graph neural networks with model-free RL.
result Extracts small feature graphs from the environment state.
Simultaneously estimates travel times and route choice model parameters.
problem Interdependent estimation of arc travel times and route choice model parameters.
method Maximum likelihood estimation for any differentiable route choice model.
result Strong performance in real-world data, even compared to arc travel time estimation methods.
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.
Optimizes query routing to LLMs under cost and resource constraints.
problem Non-uniform or adversarial batching in per-query routing methods leads to cost inefficiency.
method Batch-level, resource-aware routing framework that jointly optimizes model assignment for each batch.
result Robust routing framework improves accuracy by 1-14% over non-robust methods.
CARROT optimizes LLM routing by choosing the cheapest and most accurate model.
problem Optimizing query routing to the most cost-effective LLM for a given task.
method CARROT uses cost and performance estimates to select the best LLM for each query.
result CARROT is minimax optimal, selecting the best LLM for any query.
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.
Recently similarity graphs became the leading paradigm for efficient nearest neighbor search, outperforming traditional tree-based and LSH-based methods. Similarity graphs perform the search via greedy routing: a query traverses the graph and in each vertex moves to the adjacent vertex that is the closest to this query…
New algorithm for traffic routing in congested conditions.
problem Optimal routing in congested traffic networks.
method Congested Bandits model, UCB algorithm, iterative least squares planner.
result No-regret algorithms for congestion-aware routing.
An efficient algorithm optimizes trades across CFMM networks.
problem Optimizing trades through a network of CFMMs for maximum utility.
method Decomposition method to solve the routing problem.
result Significant performance improvements over commercial solvers.
Boosts share routing for multi-task learning with flexible sparse connections.
problem Designing suitable sharing mechanisms among multiple tasks in multi-task learning.
method Proposes MTNAS framework to modularize sharing into sub-networks with sparse connections and gating.
result Demonstrates consistent improvement over single-task and typical multi-task methods while maintaining efficiency.
Novel ML approach solves complex warehouse routing problem.
problem Efficiently routing pickers in mixed-shelves warehouses.
method Hierarchical and parallel multi-agent reinforcement learning.
result State-of-the-art performance in solution quality and inference speed.
Capsule networks improve performance on image classification tasks with fewer parameters.
problem Improving performance of capsule networks with fewer parameters.
method Inverted dot-product attention routing, Layer Normalization, concurrent iterative routing.
result Improves performance on benchmark datasets CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100, and performs at-par with ResNet-18.
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.
Sparse RSP routing improves graph exploration and classification.
problem Optimal randomized routing and distance measures on weighted graphs.
method Tsallis divergence regularization for sparse RSP.
result Sparse random walk converges to least-cost graph as temperature decreases.
Route Choice Models predict the route choices of travelers traversing an urban area. Most of the route choice models link route characteristics of alternative routes to those chosen by the drivers. The models play an important role in prediction of traffic levels on different routes and thus assist in development of ef…
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.
Optimizes routing in decentralized exchanges with gas fees.
problem Routing in decentralized exchanges with fixed gas fees.
method General optimization framework with mixed-integer model, incorporating gas fees.
result Explicit Karush-Kuhn-Tucker system linking prices, fees, and activation.
A large GPS dataset reveals that a single route often covers 60% of travel observations.
problem Limited insights from small GPS datasets on route choice behavior.
method Evaluation of path generation algorithms including link penalty, link elimination, simulation, and via-node methods.
result Modified link penalty method achieves 97% coverage, significantly higher than previous studies.
Soft modularization improves sample efficiency and performance in reinforcement learning.
problem Challenges in training multiple tasks jointly in reinforcement learning.
method Explicit modularization technique on policy representation, soft modularization method.
result Improves sample efficiency and performance over strong baselines in robotics manipulation tasks.
3D capsule network for point clouds handles rotations and translations.
problem Processing 3D point clouds with equivariance and invariance.
method Quaternion equivariant capsule network with dynamic routing on quaternions.
result Parsimonious capsule network disentangles geometry and pose.
We propose and systematically evaluate three strategies for training dynamically-routed artificial neural networks: graphs of learned transformations through which different input signals may take different paths. Though some approaches have advantages over others, the resulting networks are often qualitatively similar…
A decentralized routing framework for lunar exploration robots.
problem Routing data in intermittent connectivity lunar networks.
method Graph Attention-based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (GAT-MARL).
result Higher delivery rates, no duplications, fewer packet losses.
The DEBS Grand Challenge 2018 is set in the context of maritime route prediction. Vessel routes are modeled as streams of Automatic Identification System (AIS) data points selected from real-world tracking data. The challenge requires to correctly estimate the destination ports and arrival times of vessel trips, as ear…
Sparse routing networks with co-training prevent catastrophic forgetting in continual learning.
problem Catastrophic forgetting in neural networks trained on a sequence of tasks.
method Sparse routing networks with co-training to minimize interference between dissimilar tasks.
result Sparse routing networks with co-training outperform densely connected networks on benchmarks.
A recently proposed method in deep learning groups multiple neurons to capsules such that each capsule represents an object or part of an object. Routing algorithms route the output of capsules from lower-level layers to upper-level layers. In this paper, we prove that state-of-the-art routing procedures decrease the e…
Polestar optimizes public transportation routes for efficiency and user satisfaction.
problem Difficulty in finding optimal public transportation routes due to complex networks and dynamic situations.
method Developed a Public Transportation Graph (PTG) and a route search algorithm with station binding and ranking modules.
result Demonstrated superior efficiency and user satisfaction compared to existing systems.
Capsules are the multidimensional analogue to scalar neurons in neural networks, and because they are multidimensional, much more complex routing schemes can be used to pass information forward through the network than what can be used in traditional neural networks. This work treats capsules as collections of neurons …
New algorithm tackles dynamic query routing to multiple embedding models.
problem Dynamic query routing to multiple embedding models under adversarial conditions.
method Formalized as adversarial contextual linear bandit with low-rank experts, proposed HPG algorithm.
result HPG algorithm achieves linearized policy regret of i l d e O ( s M T ) ilde{\mathcal O}(s\sqrt{M T}) i l d e O ( s M T ) . Capsule networks improve at detecting changes in compositionality with routing.
problem Capsule networks struggle with detecting changes in compositionality.
method Introduced a loss function based on routing entropy to improve compositionality.
result Capsule networks with the new loss function better detect changes in compositionality.
Study finds average 2.02 bps loss in automated market maker routing.
problem Measuring sub-optimality in automated market maker routing.
method Three reproducible optimal benchmarks: SCO, FVO, G-FVO; bisection-based algorithm for optimal routing.
result Average 2.02 bps loss per trade, \$24 million total loss.
Bayesian algorithm discovers synthetic routes from target molecules.
problem Identifying synthetic routes from desired products.
method Bayesian inference and combinatorial optimization.
result Algorithm rediscovered 80.3% and 50.0% of known synthetic routes.
Enhanced route planning with probabilistic prediction and uncertainty sets.
problem Improving route planning reliability under uncertainty.
method CQR-GAE model integrating conformal prediction and uncertainty sets.
result Significantly outperforms baseline methods in real-world traffic scenarios.
Do you remember your first video game console? We remember ours. Decades ago, they provided hours of entertainment. Now, we have repurposed them to solve dynamic and stochastic optimization problems. With deep reinforcement learning methods posting superhuman performance on a wide range of Atari games, we consider the …
Framework improves ETF volatility forecasting by adapting to market conditions.
problem Challenges in volatility forecasting due to shifting market conditions and varying model performance.
method Risk-sensitive specialist routing using online risk-sensitive evaluation and state-dependent gating.
result Reduces forecast loss by 24% and underprediction loss by 22% compared to rolling-best baseline.
High-level synthesis (HLS) shortens the development time of hardware designs and enables faster design space exploration at a higher abstraction level. Optimization of complex applications in HLS is challenging due to the effects of implementation issues such as routing congestion. Routing congestion estimation is abse…