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This paper surveys the recent attempts, both from the machine learning and operations research communities, at leveraging machine learning to solve combinatorial optimization problems. Given the hard nature of these problems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Yoshua Bengio , Andrea Lodi , Antoine Prouvost

Over the past decade, neural network solvers powered by generative artificial intelligence have garnered significant attention in the domain of vehicle routing problems (VRPs), owing to their exceptional computational efficiency and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zhenwei Wang , Tiehua Zhang , Ning Xue , Ender Ozcan , Ling Wang , Ruibin Bai

Optimizing delivery routes for last-mile logistics service is challenging and has attracted the attention of many researchers. These problems are usually modeled and solved as variants of vehicle routing problems (VRPs) with challenging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Qian Shao , Shih-Fen Cheng

Global routing has been a historically challenging problem in electronic circuit design, where the challenge is to connect a large and arbitrary number of circuit components with wires without violating the design rules for the printed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Haiguang Liao , Wentai Zhang , Xuliang Dong , Barnabas Poczos , Kenji Shimada , Levent Burak Kara

In the backdrop of an increasingly pressing need for effective urban and highway transportation systems, this work explores the synergy between model-based and learning-based strategies to enhance traffic flow management by use of an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Filippo Airaldi , Bart De Schutter , Azita Dabiri

Combining data-driven applications with control systems plays a key role in recent Autonomous Car research. This thesis offers a structured review of the latest literature on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) within the realm of autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yiyang Chen , Chao Ji , Yunrui Cai , Tong Yan , Bo Su

The capacitated location-routing problems (CLRPs) are classical problems in combinatorial optimization, which require simultaneously making location and routing decisions. In CLRPs, the complex constraints and the intricate relationships…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Changhao Miao , Yuntian Zhang , Tongyu Wu , Fang Deng , Chen Chen

Vehicle route prediction is one of the significant tasks in vehicles mobility. It is one of the means to reduce the accidents and increase comfort in human life. The task of route prediction becomes simpler with the development of certain…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Ali Nawaz , Attique Ur Rehman

Heavy goods vehicles are vital backbones of the supply chain delivery system but also contribute significantly to carbon emissions with only 60% loading efficiency in the United Kingdom. Collaborative vehicle routing has been proposed as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Stefan Schoepf , Stephen Mak , Julian Senoner , Liming Xu , Netland Torbjörn , Alexandra Brintrup

Electric Vehicles (EVs) are becoming increasingly prevalent nowadays, with studies highlighting their potential as mobile energy storage systems to provide grid support. Realising this potential requires effective charging coordination,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Jun Kang Yap , Vishnu Monn Baskaran , Wen Shan Tan , Ze Yang Ding , Hao Wang , David L. Dowe

VRP (Vehicle Routing Problem) is an NP hard problem, and it has attracted a lot of research interest. In contexts where vehicles have limited carrying capacity, such as volume and weight but needed to deliver items at various locations.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Muhammad Wildan Abdul Hakim , Syarifah Rosita Dewi , Yurio Windiatmoko , Umar Abdul Aziz

The random nature of traffic conditions on freeways can cause excessive congestions and irregularities in the traffic flow. Ramp metering is a proven effective method to maintain freeway efficiency under various traffic conditions. Creating…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Anahita Sanandaji , Saeed Ghanbartehrani , Zahra Mokhtari , Kimia Tajik

In urban environments, the complex and uncertain intersection scenarios are challenging for autonomous driving. To ensure safety, it is crucial to develop an adaptive decision making system that can handle the interaction with other…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Xianqi He , Lin Yang , Chao Lu , Zirui Li , Jianwei Gong

We are in the midst of a semi-autonomous era in urban transportation in which varying forms of vehicle autonomy are gradually being introduced. This phase of partial autonomy is anticipated by some to span a few decades due to various…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Hins Hu , Samitha Samaranayake

Development of routing algorithms is of clear importance as the volume of Internet traffic continues to increase. In this survey, there is much research into how Machine Learning techniques can be employed to improve the performance and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Ke Liang , Mitchel Myers

This paper introduces a new set of large-scale benchmark instances for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP). The proposed XL set extends existing benchmarks by covering instances with 1,000 to 10,000 customers and a wide range of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Eduardo Queiroga , Rafael Martinelli , Anand Subramanian , Eduardo Uchoa , Thibaut Vidal

Learning-based heuristics for solving combinatorial optimization problems has recently attracted much academic attention. While most of the existing works only consider the single objective problem with simple constraints, many real-world…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Yongxin Zhang , Jiahai Wang , Zizhen Zhang , Yalan Zhou

This paper reviews the current status and challenges of Neural Networks (NNs) based machine learning approaches for modern power grid stability control including their design and implementation methodologies. NNs are widely accepted as…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-06 Reza Yousefian , Sukumar Kamalasadan

The Entrance Dependent Vehicle Routing Problem (EDVRP) is a variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) where the scale of cities influences routing outcomes, necessitating consideration of their entrances. This paper addresses EDVRP in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Yixuan Fan , Haotian Xu , Mengqiao Liu , Qing Zhuo , Tao Zhang

The scientific community is able to present a new set of solutions to practical problems that substantially improve the performance of modern technology in terms of efficiency and speed of computation due to the advancement in neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Salim Janji , Adrian Kliks