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Recent Progress in post-training flow matching for text-to-image (T2I) generation with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has demonstrated strong potential. However, it is hindered by a critical limitation: inaccurate advantage…
The Tail Assignment Problem (TAP) is a critical optimization challenge in airline operations, requiring the optimal assignment of aircraft to scheduled flights to maximize efficiency and minimize costs. To address the TAP, this work applies…
The roll-out of a flexible ramping product provides Independent System Operators (ISOs) with the ability to address ramping capacity shortages. ISOs procure flexible ramping capability by committing more generating units or reserving a…
Bayesian optimization (BO) based on Gaussian process regression (GPR) is applied to different CFD (computational fluid dynamics) problems which can be of practical relevance. The problems are i) shape optimization in a lid-driven cavity to…
We consider a coordinated complexity-aware 4D trajectory planning problem in this paper. A case study of multiple aircraft traversing through a sector that contains a network of airways and waypoints is utilized to illustrate the model and…
We propose stochastic optimization methodologies for a staffing and capacity planning problem arising from home care practice. Specifically, we consider the perspective of a home care agency that must decide the number of caregivers to hire…
We study the carbon footprint optimization (CFO) of a heavy-duty e-truck traveling from an origin to a destination across a national highway network subject to a hard deadline, by optimizing path planning, speed planning, and intermediary…
Many municipalities and large organizations have fleets of vehicles that need to be coordinated for tasks such as garbage collection or infrastructure inspection. Motivated by this need, this paper focuses on the common subproblem in which…
In this paper, scheduling problems of aircraft minimizing the total delays on a same runway and on dual runways are studied. In contrast to the algorithms based on mixed-integer optimization models in existing works, where the optimality…
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Strategic Traffic Management Initiatives (TMIs) such as Ground Delay Programs (GDPs) play a crucial role in mitigating operational costs associated with air traffic demand-capacity imbalances. However, GDPs can only be planned (e.g.,…
Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a new paradigm for privacy-preserving computation in recent years. Unfortunately, FL faces two critical challenges that hinder its actual performance: data distribution heterogeneity and high resource…
Pareto optimality is capable of striking the optimal trade-off amongst the diverse conflicting QoS requirements of routing in wireless multihop networks. However, this comes at the cost of increased complexity owing to searching through the…
In this study, a novel coordinative scheduling optimization approach is proposed to enhance port efficiency by reducing average wait time and turnaround time. The proposed approach consists of enhanced particle swarm optimization (ePSO) as…
Although Trajectory Optimization (TO) is one of the most powerful motion planning tools, it suffers from expensive computational complexity as a time horizon increases in cluttered environments. It can also fail to converge to a globally…
Coordinating teams of aerial robots in cluttered three-dimensional (3D) environments requires a principled integration of discrete mission planning-deciding which robot serves which goals and in what order -- with continuous-time trajectory…
Existing Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) methods, such as Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), have achieved remarkable progress in improving the reasoning capabilities of Large Reasoning Models (LRMs). However,…