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Recent neural solvers have achieved strong performance on vehicle routing problems (VRPs), yet they mainly assume symmetric Euclidean distances, restricting applicability to real-world scenarios. A core challenge is encoding the relational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Hang Yi , Ziwei Huang , Yining Ma , Zhiguang Cao

Concurrent processing of multiple autonomous driving 3D perception tasks within the same spatiotemporal scene poses a significant challenge, in particular due to the computational inefficiencies and feature competition between tasks when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Chunliang Li , Wencheng Han , Junbo Yin , Sanyuan Zhao , Jianbing Shen

Logistics and transport are core of many industrial and business processes. One of the most promising segments in the field is optimisation of vehicle routes. Scientific effort is focused primarily on algorithms developed in simplified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Nikica Peric , Slaven Begovic , Vinko Lesic

The number of optimization techniques in the combinatorial domain is large and diversified. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of real benchmarks to validate optimization algorithms. In this work we introduce VRPBench, a tool to create…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Guilherme A. Zeni , Mauro Menzori , P. S. Martins , Luis A. A. Meira

Multi-vehicle pursuit (MVP) such as autonomous police vehicles pursuing suspects is important but very challenging due to its mission and safety critical nature. While multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms have been proposed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Xinhang Li , Yiying Yang , Zheng Yuan , Zhe Wang , Qinwen Wang , Chen Xu , Lei Li , Jianhua He , Lin Zhang

The Vehicle Routing Problem is about optimizing the routes of vehicles to meet the needs of customers at specific locations. The route graph consists of depots on several levels and customer positions. Several optimization methods have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-18 László Kovács , Ali Jlidi

Exploring machine learning techniques for addressing vehicle routing problems has attracted considerable research attention. To achieve decent and efficient solutions, existing deep models for vehicle routing problems are typically trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jingwen Li , Zhiguang Cao , Yaoxin Wu , Tang Liu

The challenges to solving the collision avoidance problem lie in adaptively choosing optimal robot velocities in complex scenarios full of interactive obstacles. In this paper, we propose a distributed approach for multi-robot navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Ruihua Han , Shengduo Chen , Shuaijun Wang , Zeqing Zhang , Rui Gao , Qi Hao , Jia Pan

This paper introduces and formalizes the Dynamic and Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem with Emission Quota (DS-QVRP-RR), a novel routing problems that integrates dynamic demand acceptance and routing with a global emission constraint. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Farid Najar , Dominique Barth , Yann Strozecki

Neural Combinatorial Optimization has been researched actively in the last eight years. Even though many of the proposed Machine Learning based approaches are compared on the same datasets, the evaluation protocol exhibits essential flaws…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Daniela Thyssens , Tim Dernedde , Jonas K. Falkner , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Complex vehicle routing problems (VRPs) remain a fundamental challenge, demanding substantial expert effort for intent interpretation and algorithm design. While large language models (LLMs) offer a promising path toward automation, current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ni Zhang , Zhiguang Cao , Jianan Zhou , Cong Zhang , Yew-Soon Ong

This paper develops an inherently parallelised, fast, approximate learning-based solution to the generic class of Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows and Dynamic Routing (CVRP-TWDR). Considering vehicles in a fleet as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Nazneen N Sultana , Vinita Baniwal , Ansuma Basumatary , Piyush Mittal , Supratim Ghosh , Harshad Khadilkar

We consider a 2-vehicle routing problem (2VRP) which can be viewed as a building block for the variety of vehicle routing problems (VRP). As a simplified version of the 2VRP, we consider a 2-period balanced travelling salesman problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Vladimir Deineko , Bettina Klinz

The recent advancements in deep convolutional neural networks have shown significant promise in the domain of road scene parsing. Nevertheless, the existing works focus primarily on freespace detection, with little attention given to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jiahang Li , Yikang Zhang , Peng Yun , Guangliang Zhou , Qijun Chen , Rui Fan

Routing is a crucial and time-consuming stage in modern design automation flow for advanced technology nodes. Great progress in the field of reinforcement learning makes it possible to use those approaches to improve the routing quality and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Zhanwen Zhou , Hankz Hankui Zhuo , Xiaowu Zhang , Qiyuan Deng

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising approach for solving robotic manipulation tasks. However, it is challenging to apply the RL algorithms directly in the real world. For one thing, RL is data-intensive and typically requires…

In this paper, we study the vehicle routing problem with a finite time horizon. In this routing problem, the objective is to maximize the number of customer requests served within a finite time horizon. We present a novel routing network…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ayan Maity , Sudeshna Sarkar

Foundation models have reshaped the landscape of Remote Sensing (RS) by enhancing various image interpretation tasks. Pretraining is an active research topic, encompassing supervised and self-supervised learning methods to initialize model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Di Wang , Jing Zhang , Minqiang Xu , Lin Liu , Dongsheng Wang , Erzhong Gao , Chengxi Han , Haonan Guo , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao , Liangpei Zhang

We train embodied neural networks to plan and navigate unseen complex 3D environments, emphasising real-world deployment. Rather than requiring prior knowledge of the agent or environment, the planner learns to model the state transitions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Shu Ishida , João F. Henriques

Generalist neural routing solvers have shown great potential in solving diverse vehicle routing problems (VRPs) with a unified model. However, existing solvers are typically limited to symmetric settings or degrade in performance when…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Rongsheng Chen , Changliang Zhou , Canhong Yu , Yuanyao Chen , Yu Zhou , Zhuo Chen , Zhenkun Wang