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Ride-sharing is a modern urban-mobility paradigm with tremendous potential in reducing congestion and pollution. Demand-aware design is a promising avenue for addressing a critical challenge in ride-sharing systems, namely joint…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Qiulin Lin , Wenjie Xu , Minghua Chen , Xiaojun Lin

This paper presents a novel neural network architecture featuring automatic fixation point selection, designed to efficiently address complex tasks with reduced network size and computational overhead. The proposed model consists of: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Shuguang Wang , Yuanjing Wang

We introduce the Vehicle Routing Problem with Resource-Constrained Pickup and Delivery (VRP-RPD), where vehicles transport finite identical resources to customer locations for autonomous processing before retrieval and redeployment. Unlike…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Manbir Sodhi , Romesh Prasad , Harishjitu Saseendran

Attention mechanisms have emerged as transformative tools in core AI domains such as natural language processing and computer vision. Yet, their largely untapped potential for modeling intricate physical systems presents a compelling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Ning Liu , Yue Yu

Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery (MAPD) is the problem of computing collision-free paths for a group of agents such that they can safely reach delivery locations from pickup ones. These locations are provided at runtime, making MAPD a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Giacomo Lodigiani , Nicola Basilico , Francesco Amigoni

The multi Vehicle Routing Problem with Pickup and Delivery with Time Windows is a challenging version of the Vehicle Routing Problem. In this paper, by embedding many complex assignment routing constraints through constructing a multi…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-07 Monirehalsadat Mahmoudi , Junhua Chen , Xuesong Zhou

Novel Instance Detection and Segmentation (NIDS) aims at detecting and segmenting novel object instances given a few examples of each instance. We propose a unified, simple, yet effective framework (NIDS-Net) comprising object proposal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yangxiao Lu , Jishnu Jaykumar P , Yunhui Guo , Nicholas Ruozzi , Yu Xiang

Establishing robust and accurate correspondences is a fundamental backbone to many computer vision algorithms. While recent learning-based feature matching methods have shown promising results in providing robust correspondences under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Hugo Germain , Guillaume Bourmaud , Vincent Lepetit

Given a graph, the minimum dominating set (MinDS) problem is to identify a smallest set $D$ of vertices such that every vertex not in $D$ is adjacent to at least one vertex in $D$. The MinDS problem is a classic $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Enqiang Zhu , Yu Zhang , Shengzhi Wang , Darren Strash , Chanjuan Liu

The multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery (MAPD) problem is crucial in the realm of Intelligent Storage Systems (ISSs), where multiple robots are assigned with time-varying, heterogeneous, and potentially uncertain tasks. When it comes to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Xin Gong , Tieniu Wang , Yukang Cui , Tingwen Huang

Learning-based methods have become increasingly popular for solving vehicle routing problems due to their near-optimal performance and fast inference speed. Among them, the combination of deep reinforcement learning and graph representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zhenwei Wang , Ruibin Bai , Fazlullah Khan , Ender Ozcan , Tiehua Zhang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have received remarkable success in link prediction (GNNLP) tasks. Existing efforts first predefine the subgraph for the whole dataset and then apply GNNs to encode edge representations by leveraging the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Qiaoyu Tan , Xin Zhang , Ninghao Liu , Daochen Zha , Li Li , Rui Chen , Soo-Hyun Choi , Xia Hu

We consider the problem of optimizing expensive black-box functions over discrete spaces (e.g., sets, sequences, graphs). The key challenge is to select a sequence of combinatorial structures to evaluate, in order to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Aryan Deshwal , Syrine Belakaria , Janardhan Rao Doppa , Alan Fern

Improving the efficiency of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a challenging but significant task that has received much attention. Previous works mainly adopted the Differentiable Architecture Search (DARTS) and improved its search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Chongjun Tu , Peng Ye , Weihao Lin , Hancheng Ye , Chong Yu , Tao Chen , Baopu Li , Wanli Ouyang

In many scenarios we need to find the most likely program under a local context, where the local context can be an incomplete program, a partial specification, natural language description, etc. We call such problem program estimation. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Yingfei Xiong , Bo Wang , Guirong Fu , Linfei Zang

Combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) are an important research topic in various fields. In recent times, there have been many attempts to solve COPs using deep learning-based approaches. We propose a novel neural network model that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Jaeseung Lee , Woojin Choi , Jibum Kim

Traffic-density matrices from different days exhibit both low rank and stable correlations in their singular-vector subspaces. Leveraging this, we introduce SATORIS-N, a framework for imputing partially observed traffic-density by informed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Sampad Mohanty , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem is a well-known NP-hard problem that poses the challenge of finding the optimal route of a vehicle delivering products to multiple locations. Recently, new efforts have emerged to create constructive…

The quadratic computational complexity of softmax transformers has become a bottleneck in long-context scenarios. In contrast, linear attention model families provide a promising direction towards a more efficient sequential model. These…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Difan Deng , Andreas Bentzen Winje , Lukas Fehring , Marius Lindauer

In this paper, we present Neural k-Opt (NeuOpt), a novel learning-to-search (L2S) solver for routing problems. It learns to perform flexible k-opt exchanges based on a tailored action factorization method and a customized recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Yining Ma , Zhiguang Cao , Yeow Meng Chee