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This article develops a deep reinforcement learning (Deep-RL) framework for dynamic pricing on managed lanes with multiple access locations and heterogeneity in travelers' value of time, origin, and destination. This framework relaxes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-28 Venktesh Pandey , Evana Wang , Stephen D. Boyles

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has emerged as a powerful model-free paradigm for learning optimal policies. However, in navigation tasks with cluttered environments, DRL methods often suffer from insufficient exploration, especially…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Licheng Luo , Mingyu Cai

This study proposes an end-to-end framework for solving multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs) using Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), that we call DRL-MOA. The idea of decomposition is adopted to decompose the MOP into a set of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Kaiwen Li , Tao Zhang , Rui Wang

The Pickup and Delivery Problem (PDP) is a fundamental and challenging variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem, characterized by tightly coupled pickup--delivery pairs, precedence constraints, and spatial layouts that often exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Wentao Wang , Lifeng Han , Guangyu Zou

Optimal Order Execution is a well-established problem in finance that pertains to the flawless execution of a trade (buy or sell) for a given volume within a specified time frame. This problem revolves around optimizing returns while…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-01-13 Khabbab Zakaria , Jayapaulraj Jerinsh , Andreas Maier , Patrick Krauss , Stefano Pasquali , Dhagash Mehta

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) allows a system to interact with its environment and take actions by training an efficient policy that maximizes self-defined rewards. In autonomous driving, it can be used as a strategy for high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xibo Li , Shruti Patel , Christof Büskens

Path planning is an important problem with the the applications in many aspects, such as video games, robotics etc. This paper proposes a novel method to address the problem of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based path planning for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Hao Liu , Yi Shen , Shuangjiang Yu , Zijun Gao , Tong Wu

Learned construction heuristics for scheduling problems have become increasingly competitive with established solvers and heuristics in recent years. In particular, significant improvements have been observed in solution approaches using…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Constantin Waubert de Puiseau , Christian Dörpelkus , Jannik Peters , Hasan Tercan , Tobias Meisen

Pick-up and Delivery Route Prediction (PDRP), which aims to estimate the future service route of a worker given his current task pool, has received rising attention in recent years. Deep neural networks based on supervised learning have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Xiaowei Mao , Haomin Wen , Hengrui Zhang , Huaiyu Wan , Lixia Wu , Jianbin Zheng , Haoyuan Hu , Youfang Lin

Understanding customer movement within retail spaces is essential for optimizing store layouts. Real-world trajectory data can provide highly accurate insights, but collecting it is costly and often infeasible for many retailers. Heuristics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ken Ming Lee , Paul Barde , Maxime C. Cohen , Derek Nowrouzezahrai

Recent breakthroughs both in reinforcement learning and trajectory optimization have made significant advances towards real world robotic system deployment. Reinforcement learning (RL) can be applied to many problems without needing any…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Guillaume Bellegarda , Katie Byl

Exploiting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to execute tasks is gaining growing popularity recently. To solve the underlying task scheduling problem, the deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based methods demonstrate notable advantage over the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Xiao Mao , Zhiguang Cao , Mingfeng Fan , Guohua Wu , Witold Pedrycz

Next-gen networks require significant evolution of management to enable automation and adaptively adjust network configuration based on traffic dynamics. The advent of software-defined networking (SDN) and programmable switches enables…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Akshita Abrol , Purnima Murali Mohan , Tram Truong-Huu

Model-free deep-reinforcement-based learning algorithms have been applied to a range of COPs~\cite{bello2016neural}~\cite{kool2018attention}~\cite{nazari2018reinforcement}. However, these approaches suffer from two key challenges when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Nasrin Sultana , Jeffrey Chan , Tabinda Sarwar , A. K. Qin

This paper presents a Predictive Maneuver Planning with Deep Reinforcement Learning (PMP-DRL) model for maneuver planning. Traditional rule-based maneuver planning approaches often have to improve their abilities to handle the variabilities…

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been shown to be effective in producing approximate solutions to some vehicle routing problems (VRPs), especially when using policies generated by encoder-decoder attention mechanisms. While these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Joshua Levin , Randall Correll , Takanori Ide , Takafumi Suzuki , Takaho Saito , Alan Arai

Deceptive path planning (DPP) is the problem of designing a path that hides its true goal from an outside observer. Existing methods for DPP rely on unrealistic assumptions, such as global state observability and perfect model knowledge,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Michael Y. Fatemi , Wesley A. Suttle , Brian M. Sadler

Traffic congestion is a serious problem in urban areas. Dynamic congestion pricing is one of the useful schemes to eliminate traffic congestion in strategic scale. However, in the reality, an optimal dynamic congestion pricing is very…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Kimihiro Sato , Toru Seo , Takashi Fuse

Combining data-driven applications with control systems plays a key role in recent Autonomous Car research. This thesis offers a structured review of the latest literature on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) within the realm of autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yiyang Chen , Chao Ji , Yunrui Cai , Tong Yan , Bo Su

Network Slice placement with the problem of allocation of resources from a virtualized substrate network is an optimization problem which can be formulated as a multiobjective Integer Linear Programming (ILP) problem. However, to cope with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Jose Jurandir Alves Esteves , Amina Boubendir , Fabrice Guillemin , Pierre Sens