Study compares MAPF and MARL algorithms for warehouse automation.
problem Optimizing multi-agent pickup and delivery in warehouse settings.
method Compared conflict-based search (MAPF) and shared experience actor-critic (MARL).
result Comprehensive benchmarking of MAPF and MARL in a simulated warehouse environment.
DeepCO uses deep learning for offline combinatorial optimization in warehouse operations.
problem Optimizing warehouse operation sequences in offline settings.
method DeepCO framework utilizing distribution regularized optimization for TSP.
result DeepCO reduces route length by 5.7% on average for TSP problems.
Paper applies RL to optimize inventory management across multiple products and nodes.
problem Optimizing inventory management for a large number of products with shared capacity in a multi-node supply chain.
method Novel multi-agent hierarchical reinforcement learning framework with A2C algorithm and quantised action spaces.
result The approach optimizes for maximizing product sales and minimizing wastage of perishable products.
This work uses reinforcement learning to optimize task scheduling and execution in a dynamic multi-agent warehouse environment.
problem Optimizing task scheduling and execution in a dynamic multi-agent warehouse environment with limited observability.
method Deep reinforcement learning to solve both high-level scheduling and low-level multi-agent execution problems.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of reinforcement learning in optimizing task scheduling and execution in a dynamic multi-agent environment.
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.
Optimizing storage assignment is a central problem in warehousing. Past literature has shown the superiority of the Duration-of-Stay (DoS) method in assigning pallets, but the methodology requires perfect prior knowledge of DoS for each pallet, which is unknown and uncertain under realistic conditions. The dynamic natu…
Robotics has proved to be an indispensable tool in many industrial as well as social applications, such as warehouse automation, manufacturing, disaster robotics, etc. In most of these scenarios, damage to the agent while accomplishing mission-critical tasks can result in failure. To enable robotic adaptation in such s…
Reducing the incidence of surgical site infections (SSIs) is one of the objectives of the French nosocomial infection control program. Manual monitoring of SSIs is carried out each year by the hospital hygiene team and surgeons at the University Hospital of Bordeaux. Our goal was to develop an automatic detection algor…
Study optimal strategies for unwinding uncertain order flows in financial trading desks.
problem Optimizing strategies for handling uncertain order flows in financial trading desks.
method Modeling and solving the problem for a general class of in-flow processes, enabling an analytic solution.
result Optimal strategies depend on the autocorrelation of orders; only truth-telling flow is unwound myopically.
Unified formula for arbitrary liquidity operations in weighted AMMs
problem Decentralized resource allocation in intelligent transportation systems
method Weighted invariant adapted from Balancer-type AMMs
result Unified formula for four resource allocation operations
An evolutionary game model analyzes e-commerce and traditional retail trends during the pandemic.
problem Understanding the dynamics between e-commerce and traditional retail during the pandemic.
method Developed an evolutionary game model to study consumer-producer interactions on e-commerce platforms.
result Investment in logistics and warehouses in e-commerce led to faster delivery and consumer trends.
Paper solves trade-off between internalisation and externalisation in stochastic trade flows.
problem Managing risk in stochastic trade flows between internalisation and externalisation.
method Derives almost-closed-form solutions using Almgren-Chriss framework for quadratic execution costs. Uses numerical methods for more general cases. Proposes reinforcement learning as an alternative.
result Almost-closed-form solutions and numerical methods for optimal strategies.
Automated theorem prover proves non-orderability of groups.
problem Proving non-orderability of groups.
method Generic automated theorem prover with tools like positive cones, torsions, generalised torsions, and cofinal elements.
result Demonstrated automated proof of non-orderability of groups.
Having the right assortment of shipping boxes in the fulfillment warehouse to pack and ship customer's online orders is an indispensable and integral part of nowadays eCommerce business, as it will not only help maintain a profitable business but also create great experiences for customers. However, it is an extremely …
In this paper, we present a data science automation system called Prediction Factory. The system uses several key automation algorithms to enable data scientists to rapidly develop predictive models and share them with domain experts. To assess the system's impact, we implemented 3 different interfaces for creating pre…
Depth perception is a key component for autonomous systems that interact in the real world, such as delivery robots, warehouse robots, and self-driving cars. Tasks in autonomous robotics such as 3D object recognition, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), path planning and navigation, require some form of 3D sp…
This paper surveys scalable automated alignment methods for LLMs.
problem Scalability issues in traditional human-annotated alignment methods for LLMs.
method Categorizes and discusses various automated alignment methods.
result Emerging automated alignment methods are effective and scalable.
Automation engineering is the task of integrating, via software, various sensors, actuators, and controls for automating a real-world process. Today, automation engineering is supported by a suite of software tools including integrated development environments (IDE), hardware configurators, compilers, and runtimes. The…
Automation of machine learning model development is increasingly becoming an established research area. While automated model selection and automated data pre-processing have been studied in depth, there is, however, a gap concerning automated model adaptation strategies when multiple strategies are available. Manually…
New automated market makers for multi-asset trading.
problem Liquidity management in multi-asset trading.
method Derived from self-financing transactions and rebalancing principles.
result Constant product market maker as a special case.
While artificial intelligence (AI) and other automation technologies might lead to enormous progress in healthcare, they may also have undesired consequences for people working in the field. In this interdisciplinary study, we capture empirical evidence of not only what healthcare work could be automated, but also what…
DriveML automates machine learning tasks in R.
problem Manual machine learning tasks are time-consuming and error-prone.
method Automated data preparation, feature engineering, model building, and model explanation.
result DriveML performs best across different parameters compared to other packages.
This research compiles knowledge on decentralized exchanges with AMM protocols.
problem Improving and developing AMM-based decentralized exchanges.
method Established a general AMM framework, compared mechanics, discussed security and privacy.
result Illustrated conservation and slippage functions of AMM protocols.
Fast, fully-automated histograms for large data sets.
problem Efficiently constructing histograms for large-scale data.
method G-Enum histograms using Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle for model selection and a greedy search heuristic.
result Construct histograms in linearithmic time, significantly faster than previous methods.
Automated machine learning (AutoML) aims to find optimal machine learning solutions automatically given a machine learning problem. It could release the burden of data scientists from the multifarious manual tuning process and enable the access of domain experts to the off-the-shelf machine learning solutions without e…
Automates infectious disease policy-making via inference in epidemiological models.
problem Improving policy-making for infectious diseases during pandemics.
method Performing inference in existing epidemiological models using a probabilistic programming language.
result Automated inference leads to better disease progression outcomes and policy prescriptions.
Automated market-making for CBDCs and stable coins on blockchain.
problem Creating fair exchange rates for digital assets on blockchain.
method Developed an innovative approach for generating fair exchange rates.
result Illustrated the approach's efficacy on G-10 currency exchange rates.
Many real-world prediction tasks have outcome variables that have characteristic heavy-tail distributions. Examples include copies of books sold, auction prices of art pieces, demand for commodities in warehouses, etc. By learning heavy-tailed distributions, "big and rare" instances (e.g., the best-sellers) will have a…
New formula identifies and quantifies costs for automated market makers.
problem Adverse selection costs faced by liquidity providers in automated market makers.
method Derives a Black-Scholes-like formula for AMMs and identifies loss-versus-rebalancing cost.
result Closed-form expressions for LVR applicable to all automated market makers.
GPT-f uses language models to find new proofs in formal math.
problem Generating original mathematical terms for automated theorem proving.
method Transformer-based language model for automated theorem proving and proof assistant.
result GPT-f contributed new proofs to the Metamath library.
This paper improves transportation efficiency by teaching automated vehicles to cooperate.
problem Improving efficiency and safety of transportation systems with automated vehicles.
method Multi-agent graph reinforcement learning with attention mechanism.
result Automated vehicles can achieve better performance when learning to cooperate with each other.
Evidence suggests Rapid-Eye-Movement (REM) Sleep Behaviour Disorder (RBD) is an early predictor of Parkinson's disease. This study proposes a fully-automated framework for RBD detection consisting of automated sleep staging followed by RBD identification. Analysis was assessed using a limited polysomnography montage fr…
New metric to measure liquidity position PNL, delta hedging algorithm for automated market makers.
problem Vulnerability of liquidity positions to price changes in underlying assets.
method Proposes a new metric for measuring PNL, delta hedging algorithm for various AMMs.
result New metric more accurately measures net value change due to price movement.
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.
This paper intends to present the opportunities emerging for the national economy, out of the financial crisis. In particular the management of those, which arise from the commercial real estate owned property sector, defined by the author as crisis heritage management. On one hand, as real estate property prices are s…
The increasing availability of large but noisy data sets with a large number of heterogeneous variables leads to the increasing interest in the automation of common tasks for data analysis. The most time-consuming part of this process is the Exploratory Data Analysis, crucial for better domain understanding, data clean…
Paper proposes efficient cost functions for automated market makers in DeFi.
problem Inefficient and computationally complex cost functions in DeFi.
method Proposes and analyzes constant circle/ellipse based cost functions.
result Proposed cost functions are computationally efficient and robust against attacks.
Multi-task learning (MTL) has recently contributed to learning better representations in service of various NLP tasks. MTL aims at improving the performance of a primary task, by jointly training on a secondary task. This paper introduces automated tasks, which exploit the sequential nature of the input data, as second…
Fake engagement is one of the significant problems in Online Social Networks (OSNs) which is used to increase the popularity of an account in an inorganic manner. The detection of fake engagement is crucial because it leads to loss of money for businesses, wrong audience targeting in advertising, wrong product predicti…
Automated denoising score matching handles nonlinear diffusion processes.
problem Nonlinear diffusion processes limit generative modeling and property estimation.
method Local-DSM using local increments and Taylor expansions.
result Tractable training and score estimation for nonlinear diffusion processes.
Review of automation's role in chemical discoveries.
problem Improving autonomous discovery in chemistry.
method Classification of discovery types, assessment of autonomy, case studies.
result Rapid advancements in automation and machine learning are transforming experimentation and modeling.
Optimizes classifiers for varying levels of automation.
problem Supervised learning models often perform worse than human experts on specific instances.
method Focuses on convex margin-based classifiers, showing the problem is NP-hard. For SVMs, the objective function is decomposed into monotone and modular components, allowing efficient algorithms to solve the problem.
result The approach demonstrates that classifiers optimized for varying levels of automation can outperform full automation and human-only models.
We analyze impermanent loss in AMMs and show G3Ms are simplest.
problem Understanding impermanent loss in automated market makers.
method Developed a general framework and analyzed Geometric Mean Market Makers (G3Ms).
result G3Ms have the simplest impermanent loss characteristics.
Traditional market makers are losing their importance as automated systems have largely assumed the role of liquidity provision in markets. We update the model of Glosten and Milgrom (1985) to analyze this new world: we add multiple securities and introduce an automated market maker who uses the relationships between s…
Automated framework forecasts correlated time series in minutes.
problem Forecasting correlated time series with high accuracy and efficiency.
method Data-driven iterative pruning, zero-shot search, fast parameter adaptation.
result Framework achieves state-of-the-art accuracy and is faster than existing methods.
Smart Close-out Netting aims to automate close-out netting processes.
problem Inefficiencies in close-out netting processes for financial institutions.
method Standardisation and automation of legal and regulatory processes using a data-driven framework and controlled natural language.
result Standardisation and automation can improve close-out netting processes for prudentially regulated financial institutions.
Deep-learning CNN automates Cu alloy grain size evaluation.
problem Automating the evaluation of Cu alloy grain size to reduce labor and improve accuracy.
method Deep-learning convolutional neural network (CNN) for automated image acquisition and processing.
result Achieved 91.1% classification accuracy on Cu alloy sub-images.
Review of automation's role in chemical discovery, emphasizing future challenges.
problem Improving automation's contribution to chemical discovery.
method Analysis of exemplary studies and open research directions.
result Future autonomous systems need improvement in data handling, model building, and experiment automation.