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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

Two-dimensional bin packing problems are highly relevant combinatorial optimization problems. They find a large number of applications, for example, in the context of transportation or warehousing, and for the cutting of different materials…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Christian Blum , Verena Schmid , Lukas Baumgartner

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 three-dimensional bin packing problem (3D-BPP) is a longstanding challenge in operations research and logistics. While classical heuristics and constructive methods can generate packings efficiently, they often fail to satisfy…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Dheeraj Poolavaram , Carsten Markgraf , Sebastian Dorn

Bin packing is an algorithmic problem that arises in diverse applications such as remnant inventory systems, shipping logistics, and appointment scheduling. In its simplest variant, a sequence of $T$ items (e.g., orders for raw material,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Varun Gupta , Ana Radovanovic

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

Optimization problems is one of the most challenging applications of quantum computers, as well as one of the most relevants. As a consequence, it has attracted huge efforts to obtain a speedup over classical algorithms using quantum…

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 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

Recent progress in the field of robotic manipulation has generated interest in fully automatic object packing in warehouses. This paper proposes a formulation of the packing problem that is tailored to the automated warehousing domain.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Fan Wang , Kris Hauser

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

Designing effective policies for the online 3D bin packing problem (3D-BPP) has been a long-standing challenge, primarily due to the unpredictable nature of incoming box sequences and stringent physical constraints. While current deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Yuxin Pan , Yize Chen , Fangzhen Lin

We study the online bin packing problem under two stochastic settings. In the bin packing problem, we are given n items with sizes in (0,1] and the goal is to pack them into the minimum number of unit-sized bins. First, we study bin packing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Nikhil Ayyadevara , Rajni Dabas , Arindam Khan , K. V. N. Sreenivas

The two-dimensional non-oriented bin packing problem with due dates packs a set of rectangular items, which may be rotated by 90 degrees, into identical rectangular bins. The bins have equal processing times. An item's lateness is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-09 S. Polyakovskiy , R. M'Hallah

Bin packing is a classic optimization problem with a wide range of applications, from load balancing to supply chain management. In this work, we study the online variant of the problem, in which a sequence of items of various sizes must be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Spyros Angelopoulos , Shahin Kamali , Kimia Shadkami

Physical feasibility in 3D bin packing is a key requirement in modern industrial logistics and robotic automation. With the growing adoption of industrial automation, online bin packing has gained increasing attention. However,…

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

We consider a variant of bin packing called multiple-choice vector bin packing. In this problem we are given a set of items, where each item can be selected in one of several $D$-dimensional incarnations. We are also given $T$ bin types,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Boaz Patt-Shamir , Dror Rawitz

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