Integrating Machine Learning into Vehicle Routing Problem: Methods and Applications

R Shahbazian, LDP Pugliese, F Guerriero… - IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The vehicle routing problem (VRP) and its variants have been intensively studied by the
operational research community. The existing surveys and the majority of the published …

DPN: Decoupling Partition and Navigation for Neural Solvers of Min-max Vehicle Routing Problems

Z Zheng, S Yao, Z Wang, X Tong, M Yuan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The min-max vehicle routing problem (min-max VRP) traverses all given customers by
assigning several routes and aims to minimize the length of the longest route. Recently …

A Scalable and Adaptable Supervised Learning Approach for Solving the Traveling Salesman Problems

Z Lyu, MZ Islam, AJ Yu - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a well-known combinatorial optimization problem
that has attracted extensive research efforts in developing exact methods and heuristics …

UDC: A Unified Neural Divide-and-Conquer Framework for Large-Scale Combinatorial Optimization Problems

Z Zheng, C Zhou, T Xialiang, M Yuan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Single-stage neural combinatorial optimization solvers have achieved near-optimal results
on various small-scale combinatorial optimization (CO) problems without needing expert …

A deep learning Attention model to solve the Vehicle Routing Problem and the Pick-up and Delivery Problem with Time Windows

B Rabecq, R Chevrier - arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.10399, 2022 - arxiv.org
SNCF, the French public train company, is experimenting to develop new types of
transportation services by tackling vehicle routing problems. While many deep learning …

Centralized Deep Reinforcement Learning Method for Dynamic Multi-Vehicle Pickup and Delivery Problem With Crowdshippers

C Xiang, Z Wu, J Tu, J Huang - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Crowdshipping problem can be challenging as the platform are continuously but
sporadically receiving crowdshippers and delivery tasks with heterogeneous origin and …

Where to go: Agent guidance with deep reinforcement learning in a city-scale online ride-hailing service

J Li, VH Allan - 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Online ride-hailing services have become a prevalent transportation system across the
world. In this paper, we study a challenging problem of how to direct vacant taxis around a …

Solving pickup and drop-off problem using hybrid pointer networks with deep reinforcement learning

MG Alharbi, A Stohy, M Elhenawy, M Masoud… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
In this study, we propose a general method for tackling the Pickup and Drop-off Problem
(PDP) using Hybrid Pointer Networks (HPNs) and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). Our …

Prioritized League Reinforcement Learning for Large-Scale Heterogeneous Multiagent Systems

Q Fu, Z Pu, M Chen, T Qiu, J Yi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.18057, 2024 - arxiv.org
Large-scale heterogeneous multiagent systems feature various realistic factors in the real
world, such as agents with diverse abilities and overall system cost. In comparison to …

Too Big, so Fail?--Enabling Neural Construction Methods to Solve Large-Scale Routing Problems

JK Falkner, L Schmidt-Thieme - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.17089, 2023 - arxiv.org
In recent years new deep learning approaches to solve combinatorial optimization
problems, in particular NP-hard Vehicle Routing Problems (VRP), have been proposed. The …