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We present an end-to-end framework for solving the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) using reinforcement learning. In this approach, we train a single model that finds near-optimal solutions for problem instances sampled from a given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Mohammadreza Nazari , Afshin Oroojlooy , Lawrence V. Snyder , Martin Takáč

Recent neural heuristics for the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) primarily rely on node coordinates as input, which may be less effective in practical scenarios where real cost metrics-such as edge-based distances-are more relevant. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Dian Meng , Zhiguang Cao , Yaoxin Wu , Yaqing Hou , Hongwei Ge , Qiang Zhang

Trip planning for intelligent vehicles increasingly requires selecting optimal routes rather than merely producing feasible itineraries, as interacting factors such as travel time, energy consumption, and traffic conditions directly affect…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Tiejin Chen , Ahmadreza Moradipari , Kyungtae Han , Hua Wei , Nejib Ammar

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) poses a significant and challenging problem critical for applications in robotics and logistics, particularly due to its combinatorial complexity and the partial observability inherent in realistic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Merve Atasever , Matthew Hong , Mihir Nitin Kulkarni , Qingpei Li , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh

Transportation occupies one-third of the amount in the logistics costs, and accordingly transportation systems largely influence the performance of the logistics system. This work presents an adaptive data-driven innovative modular approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Emir Zunic , Dzenana Donko , Emir Buza

Existing neural heuristics often train a deep architecture from scratch for each specific vehicle routing problem (VRP), ignoring the transferable knowledge across different VRP variants. This paper proposes the cross-problem learning to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Zhuoyi Lin , Yaoxin Wu , Bangjian Zhou , Zhiguang Cao , Wen Song , Yingqian Zhang , Senthilnath Jayavelu

Object rearrangement is a fundamental problem in robotics with various practical applications ranging from managing warehouses to cleaning and organizing home kitchens. While existing research has primarily focused on single-agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Vivek Gupta , Praphpreet Dhir , Jeegn Dani , Ahmed H. Qureshi

Conflict-Based Search is one of the most popular methods for multi-agent path finding. Though it is complete and optimal, it does not scale well. Recent works have been proposed to accelerate it by introducing various heuristics. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Chenning Yu , Qingbiao Li , Sicun Gao , Amanda Prorok

Efficient multi-robot task allocation (MRTA) is fundamental to various time-sensitive applications such as disaster response, warehouse operations, and construction. This paper tackles a particular class of these problems that we call…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Steve Paul , Wenyuan Li , Brian Smyth , Yuzhou Chen , Yulia Gel , Souma Chowdhury

Mobile robotic platforms are an indispensable tool for various scientific and industrial applications. Robots are used to undertake missions whose execution is constrained by various factors, such as the allocated time or their remaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Nikolaos Tsiogkas , David M. Lane

Machine learning has been adapted to help solve NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. One prevalent way is learning to construct solutions by deep neural networks, which has been receiving more and more attention due to the high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Chengrui Gao , Haopu Shang , Ke Xue , Dong Li , Chao Qian

Enhancing roadway safety has become an essential computer vision focus area for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). As a part of ITS, Vehicle Trajectory Prediction (VTP) aims to forecast a vehicle's future positions based on its past…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Armin Danesh Pazho , Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre , Vinit Katariya , Hamed Tabkhi

Planning for multi-robot teams in complex environments is a challenging problem, especially when these teams must coordinate to accomplish a common objective. In general, optimal solutions to these planning problems are computationally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Cora A. Dimmig , Kevin C. Wolfe , Joseph Moore

Network routing is a distributed decision problem which naturally admits numerical performance measures, such as the average time for a packet to travel from source to destination. OLPOMDP, a policy-gradient reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Nigel Tao , Jonathan Baxter , Lex Weaver

In robotics, coordinating a group of robots is an essential task. This work presents the communication-constrained multi-agent multi-goal path planning problem and proposes a graph-search based algorithm to address this task. Given a fleet…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Jáchym Herynek , Stefan Edelkamp

Routing problems are optimization problems that consider a set of goals in a graph to be visited by a vehicle (or a fleet of them) in an optimal way, while numerous constraints have to be satisfied. We present a solution based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Miroslav Kulich , Roman Sushkov , Libor Přeučil

Smart Internet of Vehicles (IoVs) combined with Artificial Intelligence (AI) will contribute to vehicle decision-making in the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). Multi-Vehicle Pursuit games (MVP), a multi-vehicle cooperative ability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Zheng Yuan , Tianhao Wu , Qinwen Wang , Yiying Yang , Lei Li , Lin Zhang

In autonomous navigation, a planning system reasons about other agents to plan a safe and plausible trajectory. Before planning starts, agents are typically processed with computationally intensive models for recognition, tracking, motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Khaled S. Refaat , Kai Ding , Natalia Ponomareva , Stéphane Ross

Vision-language navigation is the task of directing an embodied agent to navigate in 3D scenes with natural language instructions. For the agent, inferring the long-term navigation target from visual-linguistic clues is crucial for reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yusheng Zhao , Jinyu Chen , Chen Gao , Wenguan Wang , Lirong Yang , Haibing Ren , Huaxia Xia , Si Liu

Autonomous vehicles operating in complex real-world environments require accurate predictions of interactive behaviors between traffic participants. This paper tackles the interaction prediction problem by formulating it with hierarchical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Zhiyu Huang , Haochen Liu , Chen Lv