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Scheduling plays an important role in automated production. Its impact can be found in various fields such as the manufacturing industry, the service industry and the technology industry. A scheduling problem (NP-hard) is a task of finding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Hongjian Zhou , Boyang Gu , Chenghao Jin

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in open-ended dialogue, yet their inability to retain and retrieve relevant information from long-term interactions limits their effectiveness in applications requiring sustained…

This paper proposes a policy-based deep reinforcement learning hyper-heuristic framework for solving the Job Shop Scheduling Problem. The hyper-heuristic agent learns to switch scheduling rules based on the system state dynamically. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Sofiene Lassoued , Asrat Gobachew , Stefan Lier , Andreas Schwung

The Jobs shop Scheduling Problem (JSP) is a canonical combinatorial optimization problem that is routinely solved for a variety of industrial purposes. It models the optimal scheduling of multiple sequences of tasks, each under a fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 James Kotary , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Flexible job shop scheduling has been noticed as an effective manufacturing system to cope with rapid development in today's competitive environment. Flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSSP) is known as a NP-hard problem in the field of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-11 Sayedmohammadreza Vaghefinezhad , Kuan Yew Wong

Flexible manufacturing has given rise to complex scheduling problems such as the flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP). In FJSP, operations can be processed on multiple machines, leading to intricate relationships between operations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Runqing Wang , Gang Wang , Jian Sun , Fang Deng , Jie Chen

The ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to extract context from natural language problem descriptions naturally raises questions about their suitability in autonomous decision-making settings. This paper studies the behaviour of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Xiao Yang , Juxi Leitner , Michael Burke

We propose a framework to learn to schedule a job-shop problem (JSSP) using a graph neural network (GNN) and reinforcement learning (RL). We formulate the scheduling process of JSSP as a sequential decision-making problem with graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Junyoung Park , Jaehyeong Chun , Sang Hun Kim , Youngkook Kim , Jinkyoo Park

This paper explores the potential application of Deep Reinforcement Learning in the furniture industry. To offer a broad product portfolio, most furniture manufacturers are organized as a job shop, which ultimately results in the Job Shop…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Malte Schneevogt , Karsten Binninger , Noah Klarmann

While Large Language Models (LLM) enable non-experts to specify open-world multi-robot tasks, the generated plans often lack kinematic feasibility and are not efficient, especially in long-horizon scenarios. Formal methods like Linear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Shuyuan Hu , Tao Lin , Kai Ye , Yang Yang , Tianwei Zhang

Recent progress in Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) has significantly enhanced the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), empowering them to tackle increasingly complex tasks through reflection capabilities, such as making…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Jianghao Chen , Zhenlin Wei , Zhenjiang Ren , Ziyong Li , Jiajun Zhang

LLM inference serving typically scales out with a two-tier architecture: a cluster router distributes requests to multiple inference engines, each of which then in turn performs its own internal scheduling. However, this commonly used…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yue Zhang , Yuansheng Chen , Xuan Mo , Alex Xi , Jialun Li , WeiGang Wu

Prior research in resource scheduling for machine learning training workloads has largely focused on minimizing job completion times. Commonly, these model training workloads collectively search over a large number of parameter values that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Richard Liaw , Romil Bhardwaj , Lisa Dunlap , Yitian Zou , Joseph Gonzalez , Ion Stoica , Alexey Tumanov

Recent progress in Large Language Models (LLMs) has substantially advanced the automation of software engineering (SE) tasks, enabling complex activities such as code generation and code summarization. However, the black-box nature of LLMs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Antonio Vitale , Khai-Nguyen Nguyen , Denys Poshyvanyk , Rocco Oliveto , Simone Scalabrino , Antonio Mastropaolo

Solving complex, long-horizon robotic manipulation tasks requires a deep understanding of physical interactions, reasoning about their long-term consequences, and precise high-level planning. Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offer a general…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yanting Yang , Shenyuan Gao , Qingwen Bu , Li Chen , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Solving complex long-horizon robotic manipulation problems requires sophisticated high-level planning capabilities, the ability to reason about the physical world, and reactively choose appropriate motor skills. Vision-language models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yunhai Feng , Jiaming Han , Zhuoran Yang , Xiangyu Yue , Sergey Levine , Jianlan Luo

The Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) is commonly formulated as a disjunctive graph in which nodes represent operations and edges encode technological precedence constraints as well as machine-sharing conflicts. Most existing reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Bulent Soykan

This paper addresses the flexible job shop scheduling problem with sequencing flexibility and position-based learning effect. In this variant of the flexible job shop scheduling problem, precedence constraints of the operations constituting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Kennedy A. G. Araújo , Ernesto G. Birgin , Débora P. Ronconi

Job shop scheduling problems address the routing and sequencing of tasks in a job shop setting. Despite significant interest from operations research and machine learning communities over the years, a comprehensive platform for testing and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Robbert Reijnen , Igor G. Smit , Hongxiang Zhang , Yaoxin Wu , Zaharah Bukhsh , Yingqian Zhang

Efficient LLM inference scheduling is crucial for user experience. However, LLM inferences exhibit remarkable demand uncertainty (with unknown output length beforehand) and hybridity (being both compute and memory intensive). Existing LLM…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zhenghao Gan , Yichen Bao , Yifei Liu , Chen Chen , Quan Chen , Minyi Guo