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Bin Packing problems have been widely studied because of their broad applications in different domains. Known as a set of NP-hard problems, they have different vari- ations and many heuristics have been proposed for obtaining approximate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Feng Mao , Edgar Blanco , Mingang Fu , Rohit Jain , Anurag Gupta , Sebastien Mancel , Rong Yuan , Stephen Guo , Sai Kumar , Yayang Tian

Efficient packing of items into bins is a common daily task. Known as Bin Packing Problem, it has been intensively studied in the field of artificial intelligence, thanks to the wide interest from industry and logistics. Since decades, many…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Sebastián V. Romero , Eneko Osaba , Esther Villar-Rodriguez , Izaskun Oregi , Yue Ban

We study a two-dimensional generalization of the classical Bin Packing problem, denoted as 2D Demand Bin Packing. In this context, each bin is a horizontal timeline, and rectangular tasks (representing electric appliances or computational…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Susanne Albers , Waldo Gálvez , Ömer Behic Özdemir

The Bin Packing Problem is a classic problem with wide industrial applicability. In fact, the efficient packing of items into bins is one of the toughest challenges in many logistic corporations and is a critical issue for reducing storage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Sebastián V. Romero , Eneko Osaba , Esther Villar-Rodriguez , Antón Asla

We study the problem of learning online packing skills for irregular 3D shapes, which is arguably the most challenging setting of bin packing problems. The goal is to consecutively move a sequence of 3D objects with arbitrary shapes into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Hang Zhao , Zherong Pan , Yang Yu , Kai Xu

The Bin Packing Problem is one of the most important Combinatorial Optimization problems in optimization and has a lot of real-world applications. Many approximation algorithms have been presented for this problem because of its NP-hard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Abdolahad Noori Zehmakan , Mojtaba Eslahi

In this work, we study the square min-sum bin packing problem (SMSBPP), where a list of square items has to be packed into indexed square bins of dimensions $1 \times 1$ with no overlap between the areas of the items. The bins are indexed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Rachel Vanucchi Saraiva , Rafael C. S. Schouery

The Colored Bin Packing Problem (CBPP) is a generalization of the Bin Packing Problem (BPP). The CBPP consists of packing a set of items, each with a weight and a color, in bins of limited capacity, minimizing the number of used bins and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Renan F. F. da Silva , Yulle G. F. Borges , Rafael C. S. Schouery

The Two-dimensional Bin Packing Problem calls for packing a set of rectangular items into a minimal set of larger rectangular bins. Items must be packed with their edges parallel to the borders of the bins, cannot be rotated and cannot…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Jean-François Côté , Mohamed Haouari , Manuel Iori

Packing cost accounts for a large part of the e-commerce logistics cost. Mining the patterns of customer orders and designing suitable packing bins help to reduce operating cost. In the classical bin packing problem, a given set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Xinhang Zhang , Haoyuan Hu , Longfei Wang , Zhijun Sun , Ying Zhang , Kunpeng Han , Yinghui Xu

We study three fundamental three-dimensional (3D) geometric packing problems: 3D (Geometric) Bin Packing (3D-BP), 3D Strip Packing (3D-SP), and Minimum Volume Bounding Box (3D-MVBB), where given a set of 3D (rectangular) cuboids, the goal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Debajyoti Kar , Arindam Khan , Malin Rau

Online 3-dimensional bin packing problem (O3D-BPP) is getting renewed prominence due to the industrial automation brought by Industry 4.0. However, due to limited attention in the past and its challenging nature, a good approximate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Ankush Ojha , Marichi Agarwal , Aniruddha Singhal , Chayan Sarkar , Supratim Ghosh , Rajesh Sinha

In this article, we introduce and study the Quadratic Bin Packing Problem (QBPP), which generalizes the classical bin packing problem by introducing a fixed cost for each used bin and a pairwise cost (or profit) incurred whenever two items…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Vítor Gomes Chagas , Alberto Locatelli , Flávio Keidi Miyazawa , Manuel Iori

We investigate a real-life air cargo loading problem which is a variant of the three-dimensional Variable Size Bin Packing Problem with special bin forms of cuboid and non-cuboid unit load devices (ULDs). Packing is constrained by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Katrin Heßler , Timo Hintsch , Lukas Wienkamp

Packing objects efficiently is a fundamental problem in logistics, warehouse automation, and robotics. While traditional packing solutions focus on geometric optimization, packing irregular, 3D objects presents significant challenges due to…

Object packing by autonomous robots is an im-portant challenge in warehouses and logistics industry. Most conventional data-driven packing planning approaches focus on regular cuboid packing, which are usually heuristic and limit the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Sichao Huang , Ziwei Wang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Cutting and packing problems are present in many, at first glance unconnected, areas, therefore it's beneficial to have a good understanding of their underlying structure, to select proper techniques for finding solutions. Cutting and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Szymon Wróbel

The two-dimensional irregular bin packing problem (2DIBPP) aims to pack a given set of irregular polygons, referred to as pieces, into fixed-size rectangular bins without overlap, while maximizing bin utilization. Although numerous…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yi Zhou , Haocheng Fu , Yiping Liu , Jian Mao , Zhang-Hua Fu , Yuyi Wang

The article proposes a heuristic approximation approach to the bin packing problem under multiple objectives. In addition to the traditional objective of minimizing the number of bins, the heterogeneousness of the elements in each bin is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-09-05 Martin Josef Geiger

2D irregular shape packing is a necessary step to arrange UV patches of a 3D model within a texture atlas for memory-efficient appearance rendering in computer graphics. Being a joint, combinatorial decision-making problem involving all…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Zeshi Yang , Zherong Pan , Manyi Li , Kui Wu , Xifeng Gao