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The Bin Packing Problem (BPP) is a well-established combinatorial optimization (CO) problem. Since it has many applications in our daily life, e.g. logistics and resource allocation, people are seeking efficient bin packing algorithms. On…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Wenjie Wu , Changjun Fan , Jincai Huang , Zhong Liu , Junchi Yan

The Bin Packing Problem is a classic problem with wide industrial applicability. In fact, the efficient packing of items into bins is one of the toughest challenges in many logistic corporations and is a critical issue for reducing storage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Sebastián V. Romero , Eneko Osaba , Esther Villar-Rodriguez , Antón Asla

Efficient packing of items into bins is a common daily task. Known as Bin Packing Problem, it has been intensively studied in the field of artificial intelligence, thanks to the wide interest from industry and logistics. Since decades, many…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Sebastián V. Romero , Eneko Osaba , Esther Villar-Rodriguez , Izaskun Oregi , Yue Ban

The Submodular Bin Packing (SMBP) problem asks for packing unsplittable items into a minimal number of bins for which the capacity utilization function is submodular. SMBP is equivalent to chance-constrained and robust bin packing problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Liding Xu , Claudia D'Ambrosio , Sonia Haddad Vanier , Emiliano Traversi

Optimization problems is one of the most challenging applications of quantum computers, as well as one of the most relevants. As a consequence, it has attracted huge efforts to obtain a speedup over classical algorithms using quantum…

In this work, we study the square min-sum bin packing problem (SMSBPP), where a list of square items has to be packed into indexed square bins of dimensions $1 \times 1$ with no overlap between the areas of the items. The bins are indexed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Rachel Vanucchi Saraiva , Rafael C. S. Schouery

Quadratic programming (QP) is a well-studied fundamental NP-hard optimization problem which optimizes a quadratic objective over a set of linear constraints. In this paper, we reformulate QPs as a mixed-integer linear problem (MILP). This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Wei Xia , Juan Vera , Luis F. Zuluaga

This paper focuses on exact approaches for the Colored Bin Packing Problem (CBPP), a generalization of the classical one-dimensional Bin Packing Problem in which each item has, in addition to its length, a color, and no two items of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Yulle G. F. Borges , Rafael C. S. Schouery , Flávio K. Miyazawa

The bin packing is a well-known NP-Hard problem in the domain of artificial intelligence, posing significant challenges in finding efficient solutions. Conversely, recent advancements in quantum technologies have shown promising potential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Lorenzo Cellini , Antonio Macaluso , Michele Lombardi

We introduce and study a novel generalization of the classical Bin Packing Problem (BPP), called the Bin Packing Problem with Setups (BPPS). In this problem, which has many practical applications in production planning and logistics, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Roberto Baldacci , Fabio Ciccarelli , Stefano Coniglio , Valerio Dose , Fabio Furini

This paper addresses the Quadratic Multiple Constraints Variable-Sized Bin Packing Problem (QMC-VSBPP), a challenging combinatorial optimization problem that generalizes the classical bin packing problem by incorporating multiple capacity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Natalia A. Santos , Marlon Jeske , Antonio A. Chaves

In this paper, we present several new linearizations of a quadratic binary optimization problem (QBOP), primarily using the method of aggregations. Although aggregations were studied in the past in the context of solving system of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Abraham P. Punnen , Navpreet Kaur

The Quadratic Knapsack Problem (QKP) involves selecting a subset of elements that maximizes the sum of pairwise and singleton utilities without exceeding a given budget. The pairwise utilities are nonnegative, the singleton utilities may be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Dorit S. Hochbaum , Philipp Baumann , Olivier Goldschmidt , Yiqing Zhang

We study an extension of the classical Bin Packing Problem, where each item consumes the bin capacity during a given time window that depends on the item itself. The problem asks for finding the minimum number of bins to pack all the items…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Mauro Dell'Amico , Fabio Furini , Manuel Iori

The Bin Packing Problem (BPP) stands out as a paradigmatic combinatorial optimization problem in logistics. Quantum and hybrid quantum-classical algorithms are expected to show an advantage over their classical counterparts in obtaining…

The thermal unit commitment (UC) problem often can be formulated as a mixed integer quadratic programming (MIQP), which is difficult to solve efficiently, especially for large-scale instances. In this paper, with projecting unit generation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-08 Linfeng Yang , Chen Zhang , Jinbao Jian , Ke Meng , Zhaoyang Dong

In this paper, a new type of 3D bin packing problem (BPP) is proposed, in which a number of cuboid-shaped items must be put into a bin one by one orthogonally. The objective is to find a way to place these items that can minimize the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Haoyuan Hu , Xiaodong Zhang , Xiaowei Yan , Longfei Wang , Yinghui Xu

We introduce the quadratic balanced optimization problem (QBOP) which can be used to model equitable distribution of resources with pairwise interaction. QBOP is strongly NP-hard even if the family of feasible solutions has a very simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-15 Abraham P. Punnen , Sara Taghipour , Daniel Karapetyan , Bishnu Bhattacharyya

Many combinatorial optimization problems such as the bin packing and multiple knapsack problems involve assigning a set of discrete objects to multiple containers. These problems can be used to model task and resource allocation problems in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-10-12 A. S. Fukunaga , R. E. Korf

Bin packing problem examines the minimum number of identical bins needed to pack a set of items of various weights. This problem arises in various areas of the artificial intelligence demanding derivation of the exact solutions in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Masoud Ataei , Shengyuan Chen
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