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Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems often rely on static retrieval, limiting adaptation to evolving intent and content drift. We introduce Dynamic Memory Alignment (DMA), an online learning framework that systematically…

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The online Dial-a-Ride problem is a fundamental online problem in a metric space, where transportation requests appear over time and may be served in any order by a single server with unit speed. Restricted to the real line, online…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-15 Alexander Birx , Yann Disser

Recent advancements in QA with LLM, like GPT-4, have shown limitations in handling complex multi-hop queries. We propose AT-RAG, a novel multistep RAG incorporating topic modeling for efficient document retrieval and reasoning. Using…

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Essential tasks in autonomous driving includes environment perception, detection and tracking, path planning and action control. This paper focus on path planning, which is one of the challenging task as it needs to find optimal path in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Sugirtha T , Pranav S , Nitin Benjamin Dasiah , Sridevi M

Dial a ride problems consist of a metric space (denoting travel time between vertices) and a set of m objects represented as source-destination pairs, where each object requires to be moved from its source to destination vertex. We consider…

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The limited capacity of drones and future one- or two-seat modular vehicles requires multiple units to serve a single large customer (i.e., a customer whose demand exceeds a single vehicle's capacity) simultaneously, whereas small customers…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-01-05 Boshuai Zhao , Jakob Puchinger , Roel Leus

Two variants of multi-robot search for a stationary object in a priori known environment represented by a graph are studied in the paper. The first one is a generalization of the Traveling Deliveryman Problem where more than one deliveryman…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Miroslav Kulich , Libor Přeučil , Juan José Miranda Bront

Multi-agent Pickup and Delivery (MAPD) is a challenging industrial problem where a team of robots is tasked with transporting a set of tasks, each from an initial location and each to a specified target location. Appearing in the context of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Zhe Chen , Javier Alonso-Mora , Xiaoshan Bai , Daniel D. Harabor , Peter J. Stuckey

The Aircraft Landing Problem (ALP) is one of the challenging problems in aircraft transportation and management. The challenge is to schedule the arriving aircraft in a sequence so that the cost and delays are optimized. There are various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Vatsal Maru

Recent advances in neural neighborhood search methods have shown potential in tackling Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs). However, most existing approaches rely on simplistic state representations and fuse heterogeneous information via naive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Xiangling Chen , Yi Mei , Mengjie Zhang

There is a growing interest in using electric vehicles (EVs) and drones for many applications. However, battery-oriented issues, including range anxiety and battery degradation, impede adoption. Battery swap stations are one alternative to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Amin Asadi , Sarah Nurre Pinkley

Meal delivery services provided by platforms with integrated delivery systems are becoming increasingly popular. This paper adopts a rolling horizon approach to solve the meal delivery routing problem (MDRP). To improve delivery efficiency…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 Lejun Zhou , Anke Ye , Simon Hu

Arrival time prediction (ATP) of public transport vehicles is essential in improving passenger experience and supporting traffic management. Deep learning has demonstrated outstanding performance in ATP due to its ability to model…

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We propose a novel formulation of the collision-aware task assignment (CATA) problem and a decentralized auction-based algorithm to solve the problem with optimality bound. Using a collision cone, we predict potential collisions and…

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Heuristic search-based planning techniques are commonly used for motion planning on discretized spaces. The performance of these algorithms is heavily affected by the resolution at which the search space is discretized. Typically a fixed…

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We consider a setting in which $N$ agents aim to speedup a common Stochastic Approximation (SA) problem by acting in parallel and communicating with a central server. We assume that the up-link transmissions to the server are subject to…

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We study the Joint Routing-Assignment (JRA) problem in which items must be assigned one-to-one to placeholders while simultaneously determining a Hamiltonian cycle visiting all nodes exactly once. Extending previous exact MIP solvers with…

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Automated algorithm configuration relieves users from tedious, trial-and-error tuning tasks. A popular algorithm configuration tuning paradigm is dynamic algorithm configuration (DAC), in which an agent learns dynamic configuration policies…

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Electric vehicles (EVs) have been adopted in urban areas to reduce environmental pollution and global warming as a result of the increasing number of freight vehicles. However, there are still deficiencies in routing the trajectories of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Erick Rodríguez-Esparza , Antonio D Masegosa , Diego Oliva , Enrique Onieva

We compare the long-term, steady-state performance of a variant of the standard Dynamic Alternative Routing (DAR) technique commonly used in telephone and ATM networks, to the performance of a path-selection algorithm based on the…

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