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We show that neural networks can be optimized to represent minimum energy paths as continuous functions, offering a flexible alternative to discrete path-search methods such as Nudged Elastic Band (NEB). Our approach parameterizes reaction…

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We present an optimal and efficient algorithm for finding a shortest path in an elastic optical network. The algorithm is an adaptation of the Dijkstra shortest path algorithm, where we take into account the spectrum continuity and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Ireneusz Szcześniak , Bożena Woźna-Szcześniak

This paper introduces a graph-based, potential-guided method for path planning problems in unknown environments, where obstacles are unknown until the robots are in close proximity to the obstacle locations. Inspired by optimal transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-26 Haoyan Zhai , Magnus Egerstedt , Haomin Zhou

Popular methods for identifying transition paths between energy minima, such as the nudged elastic band and string methods, typically do not incorporate potential energy curvature information, leading to slow relaxation to the minimum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-11 Stela Makri , Christoph Ortner , James R. Kermode

This paper discusses a graph based route solving algorithm to find the optimal path for an electric vehicle picking the best charging locations among thousands to minimize the total cumulative driving distance between the end points of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 B. Kaan Karamete , Eli Glaser

Optimal paths connecting randomly selected network nodes and fixed routers are studied analytically in the presence of non-linear overlap cost that penalizes congestion. Routing becomes increasingly more difficult as the number of selected…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-05-15 Chi Ho Yeung , David Saad

Parameter-free stochastic optimization aims to design algorithms that are agnostic to the underlying problem parameters while still achieving convergence rates competitive with optimally tuned methods. While some parameter-free methods do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuheng Zhao , Yu-Hu Yan , Amit Attia , Tomer Koren , Lijun Zhang , Peng Zhao

In this paper, we present a hypergraph--based machine learning algorithm, a datastructure--driven maintenance method, and a planning algorithm based on a probabilistic application of Dijkstra's algorithm. Together, these form a goal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Christopher Robinson

A landmark based heuristic is investigated for reducing query phase run-time of the probabilistic roadmap (\PRM) motion planning method. The heuristic is generated by storing minimum spanning trees from a small number of vertices within the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Brian Paden , Yannik Nager , Emilio Frazzoli

Free energy landscapes encode the kinetics, intermediates, and transition states that govern molecular processes and are thus a key target of single biomolecule research. Typical approaches to deriving optimal, error-minimizing,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Oliver Cheng , Zosia Adamska , Michael P. Brenner , Megan C. Engel

Rapidly-exploring Random Tree Star(RRT*) is a recently proposed extension of Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) algorithm that provides a collision-free, asymptotically optimal path regardless of obstacle's geometry in a given environment.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Ahmed Hussain Qureshi , Yasar Ayaz

If we give a robot the task of moving an object from its current position to another location in an unknown environment, the robot must explore the map, identify all types of obstacles, and then determine the best route to complete the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Saeid Alirezazadeh , Luís A. Alexandre

In this paper we present a combinatorial optimisation view on the routing problem for connectionless packet networks by using the metaphor of a landscape. We examine the main properties of the routing landscapes as we define them and how…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 T. Michalareas , L. Sacks

We obtain the first near-linear time deterministic algorithm for negative-weight single-source shortest paths on integer-weighted graphs. Our main ingredient is a deterministic construction of a padded decomposition on directed graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jason Li

Probabilistic sampling-based algorithms, such as the probabilistic roadmap (PRM) and the rapidly-exploring random tree (RRT) algorithms, represent one of the most successful approaches to robotic motion planning, due to their strong…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Lucas Janson , Brian Ichter , Marco Pavone

Path planning is a classic problem for autonomous robots. To ensure safe and efficient point-to-point navigation an appropriate algorithm should be chosen keeping the robot's dimensions and its classification in mind. Autonomous robots use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Alka Choudhary

This paper presents a novel method for accelerating path-planning tasks in unknown scenes with obstacles by utilizing Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks (WGANs) with Gradient Penalty (GP) to approximate the distribution of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jorge Ocampo Jimenez , Wael Suleiman

A modified version of the Dijkstra algorithm using an inventive contraction hierarchy is proposed. The algorithm considers a directed acyclic graph with a conical or semi-circular structure for which a pair of edges is chosen iteratively…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Ugochi A. Okengwu , Enoch O. Nwachukwu , Emmanuel N. Osegi

The Minima Hopping global optimization method uses physically realizable molecular dynamics moves in combination with an energy feedback that guarantees the escape from any potential energy funnel. For the purpose of finding reactions…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-05 Bastian Schaefer , Stephan Mohr , Maximilian Amsler , Stefan Goedecker

In real-time trajectory planning for unmanned vehicles, on-board sensors, radars and other instruments are used to collect information on possible obstacles to be avoided and pathways to be followed. Since, in practice, observations of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-09-25 Adriano Zanin Zambom , Julian A. A. Collazos , Ronaldo Dias