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We tackle the Online 3D Bin Packing Problem, a challenging yet practically useful variant of the classical Bin Packing Problem. In this problem, the items are delivered to the agent without informing the full sequence information. Agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Hang Zhao , Chenyang Zhu , Xin Xu , Hui Huang , Kai Xu

This paper presents an efficient deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework for online 3D bin packing (3D-BPP). The 3D-BPP is an NP-hard problem significant in logistics, warehousing, and transportation, involving the optimal arrangement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Peiwen Zhou , Ziyan Gao , Chenghao Li , Nak Young Chong

In this paper, a new type of 3D bin packing problem (BPP) is proposed, in which a number of cuboid-shaped items must be put into a bin one by one orthogonally. The objective is to find a way to place these items that can minimize the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Haoyuan Hu , Xiaodong Zhang , Xiaowei Yan , Longfei Wang , Yinghui Xu

The Bin Packing Problem (BPP) has attracted enthusiastic research interest recently, owing to widespread applications in logistics and warehousing environments. It is truly essential to optimize the bin packing to enable more objects to be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Baoying Wang , Huixu Dong

The online 3D bin packing problem is important in logistics, warehousing and intelligent manufacturing, with solutions shifting to deep reinforcement learning (DRL) which faces challenges like low sample efficiency. This paper proposes a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jie Han , Tong Li , Qingyang Xu , Yong Song , Bao Pang , Xianfeng Yuan

We propose a Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL) algorithm for solving the online 3D bin packing problem for an arbitrary number of bins and any bin size. The focus is on producing decisions that can be physically implemented by a robotic…

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

The 3D Bin Packing Problem (3D-BPP) is one of the most demanded yet challenging problems in industry, where an agent must pack variable size items delivered in sequence into a finite bin with the aim to maximize the space utilization. It…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Aaron Valero Puche , Sukhan Lee

We address the bin packing problem (BPP), which aims to maximize bin utilization when packing a variety of items. The offline problem, where the complete information about the item set and their sizes is known in advance, is proven to be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Beomjoon Lee , Changjoo Nam

Online 3D Bin Packing Problem (3D-BPP) has widespread applications in industrial automation. Existing methods usually solve the problem with limited resolution of spatial discretization, and/or cannot deal with complex practical constraints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Hang Zhao , Juzhan Xu , Kexiong Yu , Ruizhen Hu , Chenyang Zhu , Bo Du , Kai Xu

Robotic object packing has broad practical applications in the logistics and automation industry, often formulated by researchers as the online 3D Bin Packing Problem (3D-BPP). However, existing DRL-based methods primarily focus on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Heng Xiong , Changrong Guo , Jian Peng , Kai Ding , Wenjie Chen , Xuchong Qiu , Long Bai , Jianfeng Xu

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

This paper proposes a novel approach based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) for the 2D+1 packing problem with spatial constraints. This problem is an extension of the traditional 2D packing problem, incorporating an additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Victor Ulisses Pugliese , Oséias F. de A. Ferreira , Fabio A. Faria

A 3D flexible bin packing problem (3D-FBPP) arises from the process of warehouse packing in e-commerce. An online customer's order usually contains several items and needs to be packed as a whole before shipping. In particular, 5% of tens…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Lu Duan , Haoyuan Hu , Yu Qian , Yu Gong , Xiaodong Zhang , Yinghui Xu , Jiangwen Wei

The Online Bin Packing Problem (OBPP) is a sequential decision-making task in which each item must be placed immediately upon arrival, with no knowledge of future arrivals. Although recent deep-reinforcement-learning methods achieve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Ziyan Gao , Lijun Wang , Yuntao Kong , Nak Young Chong

The Bin Packing Problem (BPP) is a well-established combinatorial optimization (CO) problem. Since it has many applications in our daily life, e.g. logistics and resource allocation, people are seeking efficient bin packing algorithms. On…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Wenjie Wu , Changjun Fan , Jincai Huang , Zhong Liu , Junchi Yan

In this paper, a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method is proposed to address the problem of UAV navigation in an unknown environment. However, DRL algorithms are limited by the data efficiency problem as they typically require a huge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Lei He , Nabil Aouf , James F. Whidborne , Bifeng Song

This paper seeks to tackle the bin packing problem (BPP) through a learning perspective. Building on self-attention-based encoding and deep reinforcement learning algorithms, we propose a new end-to-end learning model for this task of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jingwei Zhang , Bin Zi , Xiaoyu Ge

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) techniques have become increasingly used in various fields for decision-making processes. However, a challenge that often arises is the trade-off between both the computational efficiency of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Anthony Kobanda , Valliappan C. A. , Joshua Romoff , Ludovic Denoyer

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has emerged as a promising approach for solving Combinatorial Optimization (CO) problems, such as the 3D Bin Packing Problem (3D-BPP), Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), or Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Han Fang , Paul Weng , Yutong Ban
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