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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Bowen Jin , Yu Zhang , Yu Meng , Jiawei Han

The recent rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI), powered by Transformer networks, has achieved remarkable success in natural language processing, computer vision, and graphics. However, the application of Transformers in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Qiang Zou , Lizhen Zhu

Transformer-based models have become the dominant paradigm for neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) of vehicle routing problems (VRPs), yet the role of positional encoding (PE) in these architectures remains largely unexplored. Unlike…

Rapid e-commerce growth has pushed last-mile delivery networks to their limits, where small routing gains translate into lower costs, faster service, and fewer emissions. Classical heuristics struggle to adapt when travel times are highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Àngel Ruiz-Fas , Carlos Granell , José Francisco Ramos , Joaquín Huerta , Sergio Trilles

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

The Entrance Dependent Vehicle Routing Problem (EDVRP) is a variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) where the scale of cities influences routing outcomes, necessitating consideration of their entrances. This paper addresses EDVRP in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Yixuan Fan , Haotian Xu , Mengqiao Liu , Qing Zhuo , Tao Zhang

The extraction of a scene graph with objects as nodes and mutual relationships as edges is the basis for a deep understanding of image content. Despite recent advances, such as message passing and joint classification, the detection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Rajat Koner , Suprosanna Shit , Volker Tresp

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

Autonomous surveillance missions in Internet of Things (IoT) networks often involve solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems to ensure efficient resource utilization. To address the limitations of conventional heuristics in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yazan Youssef , Paulo Ricardo Marques de Araujo , Aboelmagd Noureldin , Sidney Givigi

In recent years, there has been a notable surge in research on machine learning techniques for combinatorial optimization. It has been shown that learning-based methods outperform traditional heuristics and mathematical solvers on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shiqing Liu , Xueming Yan , Yaochu Jin

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers have achieved remarkable success in computer vision tasks. However, their deep architectures often lead to high computational redundancy, making them less suitable for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Novendra Setyawan , Ghufron Wahyu Kurniawan , Chi-Chia Sun , Jun-Wei Hsieh , Jing-Ming Guo , Wen-Kai Kuo

We present an Encoder-Decoder Attention Transformer, EDAFormer, which consists of the Embedding-Free Transformer (EFT) encoder and the all-attention decoder leveraging our Embedding-Free Attention (EFA) structure. The proposed EFA is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Hyunwoo Yu , Yubin Cho , Beoungwoo Kang , Seunghun Moon , Kyeongbo Kong , Suk-Ju Kang

Accurate trajectory prediction is crucial for ensuring safe and efficient autonomous driving. However, most existing methods overlook complex interactions between traffic participants that often govern their future trajectories. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Zixu Wang , Zhigang Sun , Juergen Luettin , Lavdim Halilaj

As the core building block of vision transformers, attention is a powerful tool to capture long-range dependency. However, such power comes at a cost: it incurs a huge computation burden and heavy memory footprint as pairwise token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Lei Zhu , Xinjiang Wang , Zhanghan Ke , Wayne Zhang , Rynson Lau

Numerous Neural Combinatorial Optimization (NCO) solvers have been proposed to address Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs). However, most of these solvers focus exclusively on single-vehicle VRP variants, overlooking the more realistic min-max…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xuan Wu , Di Wang , Chunguo Wu , Kaifang Qi , Chunyan Miao , Yubin Xiao , Jian Zhang , You Zhou

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

To address the challenges of sensor fusion and safety risk prediction, contemporary closed-loop autonomous driving neural networks leveraging imitation learning typically require a substantial volume of parameters and computational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yipin Guo , Yilin Lang , Qinyuan Ren

Accurate and efficient modeling of agent interactions is essential for trajectory generation, the core of autonomous driving systems. Existing methods, scene-centric, agent-centric, and query-centric frameworks, each present distinct…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Jianbo Zhao , Taiyu Ban , Zhihao Liu , Hangning Zhou , Xiyang Wang , Qibin Zhou , Hailong Qin , Mu Yang , Lei Liu , Bin Li

Transforming road network data into vector representations using deep learning has proven effective for road network analysis. However, urban road networks' heterogeneous and hierarchical nature poses challenges for accurate representation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Jian Yang , Jiahui Wu , Li Fang , Hongchao Fan , Bianying Zhang , Huijie Zhao , Guangyi Yang , Rui Xin , Xiong You

In the last years, an increasing number of learning-based approaches have been proposed to tackle combinatorial optimization problems such as routing problems. Many of these approaches are based on graph neural networks (GNNs) or related…

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