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This paper introduces a new approach to improve the performance of the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (CVRPTW) solvers for a high number of nodes. It proposes to cluster nodes together using Recursive-DBSCAN - an…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Kamil Bujel , Feiko Lai , Michal Szczecinski , Winnie So , Miguel Fernandez

We present a novel framework that combines machine learning with mixed-integer optimization to solve the Capacitated Location-Routing Problem (CLRP). The CLRP is a classical NP-hard problem that integrates strategic facility location with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Waquar Kaleem , Doyoung Lee , Changhyun Kwon , Anirudh Subramanyam

This study proposes an integrated heuristic framework for the strategic optimization of distributed maintenance operations in geo-distributed production systems (GDPS). It introduces a dual-entity maintenance structure comprising a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Maria Di Mascolo , Zineb Simeu-Abazi , Rony Arsène Djeunang Mezafack

Large language models excel at many tasks but often incur high inference costs during deployment. To mitigate hallucination, many systems use a knowledge graph to enhance retrieval-augmented generation (KG-RAG). However, the large amount of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Hairu Wang , Yuan Feng , Yukun Cao , Xike Xie , S Kevin Zhou

Combinatorial optimization problems are encountered in many practical contexts such as logistics and production, but exact solutions are particularly difficult to find and usually NP-hard for considerable problem sizes. To compute…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Jonas K. Falkner , Daniela Thyssens , Ahmad Bdeir , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem is a well-known NP-hard problem that poses the challenge of finding the optimal route of a vehicle delivering products to multiple locations. Recently, new efforts have emerged to create constructive…

In the last years, there has been a great interest in machine-learning-based heuristics for solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. The developed methods have shown potential on many optimization problems. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-19 Mouad Morabit , Guy Desaulniers , Andrea Lodi

The growing use of probe vehicles generates a huge number of GNSS data. Limited by the satellite positioning technology, further improving the accuracy of map-matching is challenging work, especially for low-frequency trajectories. When…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Jie Fang , Xiongwei Wu , Dianchao Lin , Mengyun Xu , Huahua Wu , Xuesong Wu , Ting Bi

Given a graph, the minimum dominating set (MinDS) problem is to identify a smallest set $D$ of vertices such that every vertex not in $D$ is adjacent to at least one vertex in $D$. The MinDS problem is a classic $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Enqiang Zhu , Yu Zhang , Shengzhi Wang , Darren Strash , Chanjuan Liu

Knowledge graphs (KGs), with their structured representation capabilities, offer promising avenue for enhancing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, leading to the development of KG-RAG systems. Nevertheless, existing methods often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yikuan Hu , Jifeng Zhu , Lanrui Tang , Chen Huang

Knowledge graphs (KGs) play a crucial role in many applications, such as question answering, but incompleteness is an urgent issue for their broad application. Much research in knowledge graph completion (KGC) has been performed to resolve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Yinyu Lan , Shizhu He , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

The generalized traveling salesman problem (GTSP) is an extension of the well-known traveling salesman problem. In GTSP, we are given a partition of cities into groups and we are required to find a minimum length tour that includes exactly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-03-30 Gregory Gutin , Daniel Karapetyan

For traffic routing platforms, the choice of which route to recommend to a user depends on the congestion on these routes -- indeed, an individual's utility depends on the number of people using the recommended route at that instance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Pranjal Awasthi , Kush Bhatia , Sreenivas Gollapudi , Kostas Kollias

To alleviate data sparsity and cold-start problems of traditional recommender systems (RSs), incorporating knowledge graphs (KGs) to supplement auxiliary information has attracted considerable attention recently. However, simply integrating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yankai Chen , Yaming Yang , Yujing Wang , Jing Bai , Xiangchen Song , Irwin King

Graph problems such as traveling salesman problem, or finding minimal Steiner trees are widely studied and used in data engineering and computer science. Typically, in real-world applications, the features of the graph tend to change over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Udesh Gunarathna , Renata Borovica-Gajic , Shanika Karunasekara , Egemen Tanin

Bearing fault diagnosis under varying working conditions faces challenges, including a lack of labeled data, distribution discrepancies, and resource constraints. To address these issues, we propose a progressive knowledge distillation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Mohammadreza Kavianpour , Parisa Kavianpour , Amin Ramezani , Mohammad TH Beheshti

Human mobility is intricately influenced by urban contexts spatially and temporally, constituting essential domain knowledge in understanding traffic systems. While existing traffic forecasting models primarily rely on raw traffic data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yatao Zhang , Yi Wang , Song Gao , Martin Raubal

We study a location-routing problem in the context of capacitated vehicle routing. The input is a set of demand locations in a metric space and a fleet of k vehicles each of capacity Q. The objective is to locate k depots, one for each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-03-08 Inge Li Goertz , Viswanath Nagarajan

Combinatorial multi-armed bandits provide a fundamental online decision-making environment where a decision-maker interacts with an environment across $T$ time steps, each time selecting an action and learning the cost of that action. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Gerdus Benadè , Rathish Das , Thomas Lavastida

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) has gained significant attention, with most research focusing on minimizing collisions and travel time. This paper also considers energy consumption in the path planning of automated guided vehicles (AGVs).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Ahmad Kokhahi , Mary Kurz