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Efficient task scheduling in large-scale distributed systems presents significant challenges due to dynamic workloads, heterogeneous resources, and competing quality-of-service requirements. Traditional centralized approaches face…

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Reinforcement Learning (RL) faces significant challenges in adaptive healthcare interventions, such as dementia care, where data is scarce, decisions require interpretability, and underlying patient-state dynamic are complex and causal in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wenzheng Zhao , Ran Zhang , Ruth Palan Lopez , Shu-Fen Wung , Fengpei Yuan

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

Today high-performance computing (HPC) platforms are still dominated by batch jobs. Accordingly, effective batch job scheduling is crucial to obtain high system efficiency. Existing HPC batch job schedulers typically leverage heuristic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Di Zhang , Dong Dai , Youbiao He , Forrest Sheng Bao , Bing Xie

We approach the task of network congestion control in datacenters using Reinforcement Learning (RL). Successful congestion control algorithms can dramatically improve latency and overall network throughput. Until today, no such…

Recent studies in using deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to solve Job-shop scheduling problems (JSSP) focus on construction heuristics. However, their performance is still far from optimality, mainly because the underlying graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Cong Zhang , Zhiguang Cao , Wen Song , Yaoxin Wu , Jie Zhang

Power grid load scheduling is a critical task that ensures the balance between electricity generation and consumption while minimizing operational costs and maintaining grid stability. Traditional optimization methods often struggle with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Dongwen Luo

Despite advances in Reinforcement Learning, many sequential decision making tasks remain prohibitively expensive and impractical to learn. Recently, approaches that automatically generate reward functions from logical task specifications…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Yash Shukla , Abhishek Kulkarni , Robert Wright , Alvaro Velasquez , Jivko Sinapov

The exponential growth in demand for digital services drives massive datacenter energy consumption and negative environmental impacts. Promoting sustainable solutions to pressing energy and digital infrastructure challenges is crucial.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Vanamala Venkataswamy , Jake Grigsby , Andrew Grimshaw , Yanjun Qi

Meta Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods focus on automating the design of RL algorithms that generalize to a wide range of environments. The framework introduced in (Anonymous, 2020) addresses the problem by representing different RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Juan Jose Garau Luis

Although High Performance Computing (HPC) users understand basic resource requirements such as the number of CPUs and memory limits, internal infrastructural utilization data is exclusively leveraged by cluster operators, who use it to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Abel Souza , Kristiaan Pelckmans , Johan Tordsson

For decades, system administrators have been striving to design and tune cluster scheduling policies to improve the performance of high performance computing (HPC) systems. However, the increasingly complex HPC systems combined with highly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yuping Fan , Zhiling Lan

This paper introduces a novel reinforcement learning (RL) approach to scheduling mixed-criticality (MC) systems on processors with varying speeds. Building upon the foundation laid by [1], we extend their work to address the non-preemptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Muhammad El-Mahdy , Nourhan Sakr , Rodrigo Carrasco

We study the problem of efficiently scheduling a computational DAG on multiple processors. The majority of previous works have developed and compared algorithms for this problem in relatively simple models; in contrast to this, we analyze…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Pál András Papp , Georg Anegg , Aikaterini Karanasiou , A. N. Yzelman

In this paper, we develop a knowledge-assisted deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm to design wireless schedulers in the fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks with time-sensitive traffic. Since the scheduling policy is a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-04 Zhouyou Gu , Changyang She , Wibowo Hardjawana , Simon Lumb , David McKechnie , Todd Essery , Branka Vucetic

Multi-user delay constrained scheduling is important in many real-world applications including wireless communication, live streaming, and cloud computing. Yet, it poses a critical challenge since the scheduler needs to make real-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Pihe Hu , Ling Pan , Yu Chen , Zhixuan Fang , Longbo Huang

The evaluation of the impact of using Machine Learning in the management of softwarized networks is considered in multiple research works. Beyond that, we propose to evaluate the robustness of online learning for optimal network slice…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Jose Jurandir Alves Esteves , Amina Boubendir , Fabrice Guillemin , Pierre Sens

To improve the system performance towards the Shannon limit, advanced radio resource management mechanisms play a fundamental role. In particular, scheduling should receive much attention, because it allocates radio resources among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Jian Wang , Chen Xu , Rong Li , Yiqun Ge , Jun Wang

Job scheduling is a well-known Combinatorial Optimization problem with endless applications. Well planned schedules bring many benefits in the context of automated systems: among others, they limit production costs and waste. Nevertheless,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Giovanni Bonetta , Davide Zago , Rossella Cancelliere , Andrea Grosso

With rapid advances in containerization techniques, the serverless computing model is becoming a valid candidate execution model in edge networking, similar to the widely used cloud model for applications that are stateless, single purpose…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Mounir Bensalem , Erkan Ipek , Admela Jukan