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The bin packing is a well-known NP-Hard problem in the domain of artificial intelligence, posing significant challenges in finding efficient solutions. Conversely, recent advancements in quantum technologies have shown promising potential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Lorenzo Cellini , Antonio Macaluso , Michele Lombardi

Many combinatorial optimization problems such as the bin packing and multiple knapsack problems involve assigning a set of discrete objects to multiple containers. These problems can be used to model task and resource allocation problems in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-10-12 A. S. Fukunaga , R. E. Korf

A 3D flexible bin packing problem (3D-FBPP) arises from the process of warehouse packing in e-commerce. An online customer's order usually contains several items and needs to be packed as a whole before shipping. In particular, 5% of tens…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Lu Duan , Haoyuan Hu , Yu Qian , Yu Gong , Xiaodong Zhang , Yinghui Xu , Jiangwen Wei

This paper addresses the Quadratic Multiple Constraints Variable-Sized Bin Packing Problem (QMC-VSBPP), a challenging combinatorial optimization problem that generalizes the classical bin packing problem by incorporating multiple capacity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Natalia A. Santos , Marlon Jeske , Antonio A. Chaves

The Online Bin Packing Problem (OBPP) is a sequential decision-making task in which each item must be placed immediately upon arrival, with no knowledge of future arrivals. Although recent deep-reinforcement-learning methods achieve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Ziyan Gao , Lijun Wang , Yuntao Kong , Nak Young Chong

The three-dimensional bin packing problem (3D-BPP) is widely applied in logistics and warehousing. Existing learning-based approaches often neglect practical stability-related constraints and exhibit limitations in generalizing across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Lei Gao , Shihong Huang , Shengjie Wang , Hong Ma , Feng Zhang , Hengda Bao , Qichang Chen , Weihua Zhou

Online 3-dimensional bin packing problem (O3D-BPP) is getting renewed prominence due to the industrial automation brought by Industry 4.0. However, due to limited attention in the past and its challenging nature, a good approximate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Ankush Ojha , Marichi Agarwal , Aniruddha Singhal , Chayan Sarkar , Supratim Ghosh , Rajesh Sinha

The 3D Bin Packing Problem (3D-BPP) is one of the most demanded yet challenging problems in industry, where an agent must pack variable size items delivered in sequence into a finite bin with the aim to maximize the space utilization. It…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Aaron Valero Puche , Sukhan Lee

Bin packing is a classic optimization problem with a wide range of applications, from load balancing to supply chain management. In this work, we study the online variant of the problem, in which a sequence of items of various sizes must be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Spyros Angelopoulos , Shahin Kamali , Kimia Shadkami

The Two-dimensional Bin Packing Problem calls for packing a set of rectangular items into a minimal set of larger rectangular bins. Items must be packed with their edges parallel to the borders of the bins, cannot be rotated and cannot…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Jean-François Côté , Mohamed Haouari , Manuel Iori

This paper presents theoretical and practical results for the bin packing problem with scenarios, a generalization of the classical bin packing problem which considers the presence of uncertain scenarios, of which only one is realized. For…

This paper focuses on exact approaches for the Colored Bin Packing Problem (CBPP), a generalization of the classical one-dimensional Bin Packing Problem in which each item has, in addition to its length, a color, and no two items of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Yulle G. F. Borges , Rafael C. S. Schouery , Flávio K. Miyazawa

The logistics industry is widely regarded as a promising application domain for emerging optimization paradigms, including quantum computing. The Rider-Order Assignment problem is a practically motivated optimization problem arising in…

We study a two-dimensional generalization of the classical Bin Packing problem, denoted as 2D Demand Bin Packing. In this context, each bin is a horizontal timeline, and rectangular tasks (representing electric appliances or computational…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Susanne Albers , Waldo Gálvez , Ömer Behic Özdemir

The paper described a generalized integrated glance to bin packing problems including a brief literature survey and some new problem formulations for the cases of multiset estimates of items. A new systemic viewpoint to bin packing problems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Mark Sh. Levin

Bin Packing problems have been widely studied because of their broad applications in different domains. Known as a set of NP-hard problems, they have different vari- ations and many heuristics have been proposed for obtaining approximate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Feng Mao , Edgar Blanco , Mingang Fu , Rohit Jain , Anurag Gupta , Sebastien Mancel , Rong Yuan , Stephen Guo , Sai Kumar , Yayang Tian

Efficient cargo packing and transport unit stacking play a vital role in enhancing logistics efficiency and reducing costs in the field of logistics. This article focuses on the challenging problem of loading transport units onto pallets,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Marko Švaco , Filip Šuligoj , Bojan Šekoranja , Josip Vidaković

We introduce a novel quantum computing heuristic for solving the irregular strip packing problem, a significant challenge in optimizing material usage across various industries. This problem involves arranging a set of irregular polygonal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Paul-Amaury Matt , Marco Roth

Online 3D Bin Packing Problem (3D-BPP) has widespread applications in industrial automation. Existing methods usually solve the problem with limited resolution of spatial discretization, and/or cannot deal with complex practical constraints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Hang Zhao , Juzhan Xu , Kexiong Yu , Ruizhen Hu , Chenyang Zhu , Bo Du , Kai Xu

We consider several extensions of the fractional bin packing problem, a relaxation of the traditional bin packing problem where the objects may be split across multiple bins. In these extensions, we introduce load-balancing constraints…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Davi Castro-Silva , Eric Gourdin