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We introduce the Cooperative Multi-Agent Path Finding (Co-MAPF) problem, an extension to the classical MAPF problem, where cooperative behavior is incorporated. In this setting, a group of autonomous agents operate in a shared environment…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Nir Greshler , Ofir Gordon , Oren Salzman , Nahum Shimkin

Vehicle routing problems (VRPs) form a class of combinatorial problems with wide practical applications. While previous heuristic or learning-based works achieve decent solutions on small problem instances of up to 100 cities, their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Sirui Li , Zhongxia Yan , Cathy Wu

Ramp merging is a critical and challenging task for autonomous vehicles (AVs), particularly in mixed traffic environments with human-driven vehicles (HVs). Existing approaches typically rely on either lane-changing or inter-vehicle gap…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yassine Ibork , Myounggyu Won , Lokesh Das

Vehicle routing problems (VRPs), which can be found in numerous real-world applications, have been an important research topic for several decades. Recently, the neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) approach that leverages a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Fei Liu , Xi Lin , Zhenkun Wang , Qingfu Zhang , Xialiang Tong , Mingxuan Yuan

Despite enjoying desirable efficiency and reduced reliance on domain expertise, existing neural methods for vehicle routing problems (VRPs) suffer from severe robustness issues -- their performance significantly deteriorates on clean…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Jianan Zhou , Yaoxin Wu , Zhiguang Cao , Wen Song , Jie Zhang , Zhiqi Shen

Large language models (LLMs) show promising performance on small-scale graph reasoning tasks but fail when handling real-world graphs with complex queries. This phenomenon arises from LLMs' working memory constraints, which result in their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Rongzheng Wang , Shuang Liang , Qizhi Chen , Yihong Huang , Muquan Li , Yizhuo Ma , Dongyang Zhang , Ke Qin , Man-Fai Leung

Over the past decade, neural network solvers powered by generative artificial intelligence have garnered significant attention in the domain of vehicle routing problems (VRPs), owing to their exceptional computational efficiency and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zhenwei Wang , Tiehua Zhang , Ning Xue , Ender Ozcan , Ling Wang , Ruibin Bai

People are spending an enormous amount of time on digital devices through graphical user interfaces (GUIs), e.g., computer or smartphone screens. Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT can assist people in tasks like writing emails,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Wenyi Hong , Weihan Wang , Qingsong Lv , Jiazheng Xu , Wenmeng Yu , Junhui Ji , Yan Wang , Zihan Wang , Yuxuan Zhang , Juanzi Li , Bin Xu , Yuxiao Dong , Ming Ding , Jie Tang

Multi-Agent Motion Planning (MAMP) is the problem of computing feasible paths for a set of agents given individual start and goal states. Given the hardness of MAMP, most of the research related to multi-agent systems has focused on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Irving Solis , Read Sandström , James Motes , Nancy M. Amato

Cooperative pathfinding is a problem of finding a set of non-conflicting trajectories for a number of mobile agents. Its applications include planning for teams of mobile robots, such as autonomous aircrafts, cars, or underwater vehicles.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-02-13 Michal Čáp , Peter Novák , Jiří Vokřínek , Michal Pěchouček

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), although adept at aerial surveillance, are often constrained by limited battery capacity. By refueling on slow-moving Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs), their operational endurance can be significantly…

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a complex optimization problem with numerous real-world applications, mostly solved using metaheuristic algorithms due to its $\mathcal{NP}$-Hard nature. Traditionally, these metaheuristics rely on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Bachtiar Herdianto , Romain Billot , Flavien Lucas , Marc Sevaux

Despite the extensive research efforts and the remarkable results obtained on Vehicle Routing Problems (VRP) by using algorithms proposed by the Machine Learning community that are partially or entirely based on data-driven analysis, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Luca Accorsi , Andrea Lodi , Daniele Vigo

Network routing is a distributed decision problem which naturally admits numerical performance measures, such as the average time for a packet to travel from source to destination. OLPOMDP, a policy-gradient reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Nigel Tao , Jonathan Baxter , Lex Weaver

This research proposes a hybrid Machine Learning and metaheuristic mechanism that is designed to solve Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs). The main of our method is an edge solution selector model, which classifies solution edges to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Bachtiar Herdianto , Romain Billot , Flavien Lucas , Marc Sevaux , Daniele Vigo

The pursuit of autonomous agents capable of temporally coherent planning is hindered by a fundamental flaw in current vision-language models (VLMs): they lack cognitive inertia. Operating on isolated snapshots, these models cannot form a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Pei Liu , Qingtian Ning , Xinyan Lu , Haipeng Liu , Weiliang Ma , Dangen She , Peng Jia , Xianpeng Lang , Jun Ma

Visual Language Models (VLMs) achieve promising results in medical reasoning but struggle with hallucinations, vague descriptions, inconsistent logic and poor localization. To address this, we propose a agent framework named Medical Visual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Guangfu Guo , Xiaoqian Lu , Yue Feng

Large language model agents often exhibit complementary strengths, making routing a promising approach for multi-agent question answering. However, existing routing methods remain limited in two important ways: they typically optimize over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jiatan Huang , Zheyuan Zhang , Kaiwen Shi , Yanfang Ye , Chuxu Zhang

We present UAV-CodeAgents, a scalable multi-agent framework for autonomous UAV mission generation, built on large language and vision-language models (LLMs/VLMs). The system leverages the ReAct (Reason + Act) paradigm to interpret satellite…

Research on Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches for discrete optimization problems has increased considerably, extending RL to areas classically dominated by Operations Research (OR). Vehicle routing problems are a good example of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ricardo Gama , Ricardo Cunha , Daniel Fuertes , Carlos R. del-Blanco , Hugo L. Fernandes