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In autonomous driving, traditional Computer Vision (CV) agents often struggle in unfamiliar situations due to biases in the training data. Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) agents address this by learning from experience and maximizing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Bhargava Uppuluri , Anjel Patel , Neil Mehta , Sridhar Kamath , Pratyush Chakraborty

Curriculum design for reinforcement learning (RL) can speed up an agent's learning process and help it learn to perform well on complex tasks. However, existing techniques typically require domain-specific hyperparameter tuning, involve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Georgios Tzannetos , Parameswaran Kamalaruban , Adish Singla

The job shop scheduling problem is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem relevant to manufacturing and timetabling. Traditional approaches use priority dispatching rules based on simple heuristics. Recent work has attempted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Pablo Ariño Fernández

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

In recent years, we have witnessed tremendous progress in deep reinforcement learning (RL) for tasks such as Go, Chess, video games, and robot control. Nevertheless, other combinatorial domains, such as AI planning, still pose considerable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Dieqiao Feng , Carla P. Gomes , Bart Selman

Job shop scheduling problems (JSSPs) represent a critical and challenging class of combinatorial optimization problems. Recent years have witnessed a rapid increase in the application of graph neural networks (GNNs) to solve JSSPs, albeit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Igor G. Smit , Jianan Zhou , Robbert Reijnen , Yaoxin Wu , Jian Chen , Cong Zhang , Zaharah Bukhsh , Yingqian Zhang , Wim Nuijten

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) techniques have been successfully applied for solving complex decision-making and control tasks in multiple fields including robotics, autonomous driving, healthcare and natural language processing. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Amanda Jayanetti , Saman Halgamuge , Rajkumar Buyya

This paper focuses on the critical load restoration problem in distribution systems following major outages. To provide fast online response and optimal sequential decision-making support, a reinforcement learning (RL) based approach is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Xiangyu Zhang , Abinet Tesfaye Eseye , Bernard Knueven , Weijia Liu , Matthew Reynolds , Wesley Jones

Deep reinforcement learning has been recognized as an efficient technique to design optimal strategies for different complex systems without prior knowledge of the control landscape. To achieve a fast and precise control for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Hailan Ma , Daoyi Dong , Steven X. Ding , Chunlin Chen

Neural approaches to the Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP), particularly those based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL), have gained growing attention in recent years. However, existing methods rely on complex feature-engineered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xiangjie Xiao , Cong Zhang , Wen Song , Zhiguang Cao

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has demonstrated impressive results in domains such as games and robotics, where task formulations are well-defined. However, few DRL benchmarks are grounded in complex, real-world environments, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Henrique Donâncio , Laurent Vercouter , Harald Roclawski

This study addresses the challenge of resource scheduling optimization in edge-cloud collaborative computing using deep reinforcement learning (DRL). The proposed DRL-based approach improves task processing efficiency, reduces overall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Yuqing Wang , Xiao Yang

With the rapid development of deep learning, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) began to appear in the field of resource scheduling in recent years. Based on the previous research on DRL in the literature, we introduce online resource…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Yufei Ye , Xiaoqin Ren , Jin Wang , Lingxiao Xu , Wenxia Guo , Wenqiang Huang , Wenhong Tian

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has recently received significant attention from the process systems engineering and control communities. Recent works have investigated the application of RL to identify optimal scheduling decision in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-11 Max Mowbray , Dongda Zhang , Ehecatl Antonio Del Rio Chanona

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been used to learn effective heuristics for solving complex combinatorial optimisation problem via policy networks and have demonstrated promising performance. Existing works have focused on solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Nasrin Sultana , Jeffrey Chan , A. K. Qin , Tabinda Sarwar

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has demonstrated its potential in solving complex manufacturing decision-making problems, especially in a context where the system learns over time with actual operation in the absence of training data. One…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Miguel Neves , Pedro Neto

In the rapidly evolving field of serverless computing, efficient function scheduling and resource scaling are critical for optimizing performance and cost. This paper presents a comprehensive review of the application of Deep Reinforcement…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Amjad Yousef Majid , Eduard Marin

Curriculum learning in reinforcement learning is a training methodology that seeks to speed up learning of a difficult target task, by first training on a series of simpler tasks and transferring the knowledge acquired to the target task.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Sanmit Narvekar , Peter Stone

In e-commerce markets, on time delivery is of great importance to customer satisfaction. In this paper, we present a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) approach for deciding how and when orders should be batched and picked in a warehouse to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Bram Cals , Yingqian Zhang , Remco Dijkman , Claudy van Dorst

Reinforcement learning (RL) involves sequential decision making in uncertain environments. The aim of the decision-making agent is to maximize the benefit of acting in its environment over an extended period of time. Finding an optimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Istvan Szita , Balint Takacs , Andras Lorincz