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Dependency-aware job scheduling in the cluster is NP-hard. Recent work shows that Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is capable of solving it. It is difficult for the administrator to understand the DRL-based policy even though it achieves…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Shaojun Zhang , Chen Wang , Albert Zomaya

This paper explores the possibility of near-optimally solving multi-agent, multi-task NP-hard planning problems with time-dependent rewards using a learning-based algorithm. In particular, we consider a class of robot/machine scheduling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Hyunwook Kang , Taehwan Kwon , Jinkyoo Park , James R. Morrison

Production scheduling is an essential task in manufacturing, with Reinforcement Learning (RL) emerging as a key solution. In a previous work, RL was utilized to solve an extended permutation flow shop scheduling problem (PFSSP) for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Arthur Müller , Felix Grumbach , Matthia Sabatelli

With the continuous expansion of the scale of cloud computing applications, artificial intelligence technologies such as Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning have gradually become the key tools to solve the automated task scheduling of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Zheng Xu , Yulu Gong , Yanlin Zhou , Qiaozhi Bao , Wenpin Qian

OpenAI o1 has shown that applying reinforcement learning to integrate reasoning steps directly during inference can significantly improve a model's reasoning capabilities. This result is exciting as the field transitions from the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jun Wang

Metascheduling in time-triggered architectures has been crucial in adapting to dynamic and unpredictable environments, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of task execution. However, traditional approaches face significant challenges…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Samer Alshaer , Ala Khalifeh , Roman Obermaisser

The development of robotic systems for palletization in logistics scenarios is of paramount importance, addressing critical efficiency and precision demands in supply chain management. This paper investigates the application of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Zheng Wu , Yichuan Li , Wei Zhan , Changliu Liu , Yun-Hui Liu , Masayoshi Tomizuka

As the quantity and complexity of information processed by software systems increase, large-scale software systems have an increasing requirement for high-performance distributed computing systems. With the acceleration of the Internet in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Guangyao Zhou , Wenhong Tian , Rajkumar Buyya , Ruini Xue , Liang Song

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a branch of machine learning which is employed to solve various sequential decision making problems without proper supervision. Due to the recent advancement of deep learning, the newly proposed Deep-RL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Dhruv Ramani

Machine Learning requires large amounts of labeled data to fit a model. Many datasets are already publicly available, nevertheless forcing application possibilities of machine learning to the domains of those public datasets. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Thorben Werner

Reinforcement learning has become one of the most trending subjects in the recent decade. It has seen applications in various fields such as robot manipulations, autonomous driving, path planning, computer gaming, etc. We accomplished three…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Hanzhi Yang

Job Shop Scheduling (JSS) is one of the most studied combinatorial optimization problems. It involves scheduling a set of jobs with predefined processing constraints on a set of machines to achieve a desired objective, such as minimizing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Karima Rihane , Adel Dabah , Abdelhakim AitZai

Reinforcement learning often uses neural networks to solve complex control tasks. However, neural networks are sensitive to input perturbations, which makes their deployment in safety-critical environments challenging. This work lifts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Manuel Wendl , Lukas Koller , Tobias Ladner , Matthias Althoff

Combinatorial optimization problems, such as scheduling and route planning, are crucial in various industries but are computationally intractable due to their NP-hard nature. Neural Combinatorial Optimization methods leverage machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Imanol Echeverria , Maialen Murua , Roberto Santana

The Flexible Job-shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP) is an important combinatorial optimization problem that arises in manufacturing and service settings. FJSP is composed of two subproblems, an assignment problem that assigns tasks to machines,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Wenbo Chen , Reem Khir , Pascal Van Hentenryck

The Flexible Job-shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP) is a classical combinatorial optimization problem that has a wide-range of applications in the real world. In order to generate fast and accurate scheduling solutions for FJSP, various deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Xinquan Wu , Xuefeng Yan , Mingqiang Wei , Donghai Guan

The field of reinforcement learning offers a large variety of concepts and methods to tackle sequential decision-making problems. This variety has become so large that choosing an algorithm for a task at hand can be challenging. In this…

Multi-task learning is a very challenging problem in reinforcement learning. While training multiple tasks jointly allow the policies to share parameters across different tasks, the optimization problem becomes non-trivial: It remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Ruihan Yang , Huazhe Xu , Yi Wu , Xiaolong Wang

This paper addresses the Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem and its extension with Worker Flexibility, which integrates workforce assignment into machine-operation scheduling. Diverse solvers have been proposed across multiple…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-06 David Hutter , Thomas Steinberger , Michael Hellwig

This paper proposes a safe reinforcement learning algorithm for generation bidding decisions and unit maintenance scheduling in a competitive electricity market environment. In this problem, each unit aims to find a bidding strategy that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Pegah Rokhforoz , Olga Fink