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Traffic forecasting influences various intelligent transportation system (ITS) services and is of great significance for user experience as well as urban traffic control. It is challenging due to the fact that the road network contains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Yiwen Sun , Yulu Wang , Kun Fu , Zheng Wang , Changshui Zhang , Jieping Ye

The significant increase in world population and urbanisation has brought several important challenges, in particular regarding the sustainability, maintenance and planning of urban mobility. At the same time, the exponential increase of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-28 João Rico , José Barateiro , Arlindo Oliveira

Column Generation (CG) is a popular method dedicated to enhancing computational efficiency in large scale Combinatorial Optimization (CO) problems. It reduces the number of decision variables in a problem by solving a pricing problem. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Abdo Abouelrous , Laurens Bliek , Adriana F. Gabor , Yaoxin Wu , Yingqian Zhang

Conventional route planning services typically offer the same routes to all drivers, focusing primarily on a few standardized factors such as travel distance or time, overlooking individual driver preferences. With the inception of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Dinesh Cyril Selvaraj , Falko Dressler , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Assortment optimization seeks to select a subset of substitutable products, subject to constraints, to maximize expected revenue. The problem is NP-hard due to its combinatorial and nonlinear nature and arises frequently in industries such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Guokai Li , Pin Gao , Stefanus Jasin , Zizhuo Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable success in learning from graph-structured data. However, their application to directed graphs (digraphs) presents unique challenges, primarily due to the inherent asymmetry in node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Wei Zhuo , Han Yu , Guang Tan , Xiaoxiao Li

As powerful tools for representation learning on graphs, graph neural networks (GNNs) have facilitated various applications from drug discovery to recommender systems. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of GNNs is immensely challenged by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Wei Jin , Tong Zhao , Jiayuan Ding , Yozen Liu , Jiliang Tang , Neil Shah

Recent studies have significantly improved the prediction accuracy of travel demand using graph neural networks. However, these studies largely ignored uncertainty that inevitably exists in travel demand prediction. To fill this gap, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Qingyi Wang , Shenhao Wang , Dingyi Zhuang , Haris Koutsopoulos , Jinhua Zhao

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) are a promising technique for bridging differential programming and combinatorial domains. GNNs employ trainable modules which can be assembled in different configurations that reflect the relational structure of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Marcelo O. R. Prates , Pedro H. C. Avelar , Henrique Lemos , Luis Lamb , Moshe Vardi

In the last few years, graph convolutional networks (GCN) have become a popular research direction in the machine learning community to tackle NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) defined on graphs. While the obtained results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Elisabeth Gaar , Markus Sinnl

The Vehicle Routing Problem is about optimizing the routes of vehicles to meet the needs of customers at specific locations. The route graph consists of depots on several levels and customer positions. Several optimization methods have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-18 László Kovács , Ali Jlidi

In unstructured environments, obstacles are diverse and lack lane markings, making trajectory planning for intelligent vehicles a challenging task. Traditional trajectory planning methods typically involve multiple stages, including path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Sumin Zhang , Kuo Li , Rui He , Zhiwei Meng , Yupeng Chang , Xiaosong Jin , Ri Bai

The application of machine learning techniques in the setting of road networks holds the potential to facilitate many important intelligent transportation applications. Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are neural networks that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Tobias Skovgaard Jepsen , Christian S. Jensen , Thomas Dyhre Nielsen

Forecasting the trajectories of neighbor vehicles is a crucial step for decision making and motion planning of autonomous vehicles. This paper proposes a graph-based spatial-temporal convolutional network (GSTCN) to predict future…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Zihao Sheng , Yunwen Xu , Shibei Xue , Dewei Li

Network modeling is a critical component for building self-driving Software-Defined Networks, particularly to find optimal routing schemes that meet the goals set by administrators. However, existing modeling techniques do not meet the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Krzysztof Rusek , José Suárez-Varela , Albert Mestres , Pere Barlet-Ros , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio

In this paper, we aim at improving the computational efficiency of graph convolutional networks (GCNs) for learning on point clouds. The basic graph convolution that is typically composed of a $K$-nearest neighbor (KNN) search and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Yawei Li , He Chen , Zhaopeng Cui , Radu Timofte , Marc Pollefeys , Gregory Chirikjian , Luc Van Gool

Traffic speed forecasting is one of the core problems in transportation systems. For a more accurate prediction, recent studies started using not only the temporal speed patterns but also the spatial information on the road network through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Kyungeun Lee , Wonjong Rhee

Network modeling is a key enabler to achieve efficient network operation in future self-driving Software-Defined Networks. However, we still lack functional network models able to produce accurate predictions of Key Performance Indicators…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Krzysztof Rusek , José Suárez-Varela , Paul Almasan , Pere Barlet-Ros , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio

Effective communication is key to successful, decentralized, multi-robot path planning. Yet, it is far from obvious what information is crucial to the task at hand, and how and when it must be shared among robots. To side-step these issues…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Qingbiao Li , Fernando Gama , Alejandro Ribeiro , Amanda Prorok

This study investigates how to schedule nanosatellite tasks more efficiently using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). In the Offline Nanosatellite Task Scheduling (ONTS) problem, the goal is to find the optimal schedule for tasks to be carried…