A review of reinforcement learning based intelligent optimization for manufacturing scheduling

L Wang, Z Pan, J Wang - Complex System Modeling and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the critical component of manufacturing systems, production scheduling aims to optimize
objectives in terms of profit, efficiency, and energy consumption by reasonably determining …

Reinforcement learning applied to production planning and control

A Esteso, D Peidro, J Mula… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The objective of this paper is to examine the use and applications of reinforcement learning
(RL) techniques in the production planning and control (PPC) field addressing the following …

Difusco: Graph-based diffusion solvers for combinatorial optimization

Z Sun, Y Yang - Advances in Neural Information Processing …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Neural network-based Combinatorial Optimization (CO) methods have shown
promising results in solving various NP-complete (NPC) problems without relying on hand …

A multi-action deep reinforcement learning framework for flexible Job-shop scheduling problem

K Lei, P Guo, W Zhao, Y Wang, L Qian, X Meng… - Expert Systems with …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents an end-to-end deep reinforcement framework to automatically learn a
policy for solving a flexible Job-shop scheduling problem (FJSP) using a graph neural …

Flexible job-shop scheduling via graph neural network and deep reinforcement learning

W Song, X Chen, Q Li, Z Cao - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been applied to learn priority dispatching
rules (PDRs) for solving complex scheduling problems. However, the existing works face …

Towards omni-generalizable neural methods for vehicle routing problems

J Zhou, Y Wu, W Song, Z Cao… - … Conference on Machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Learning heuristics for vehicle routing problems (VRPs) has gained much attention due to
the less reliance on hand-crafted rules. However, existing methods are typically trained and …

Learning to iteratively solve routing problems with dual-aspect collaborative transformer

Y Ma, J Li, Z Cao, W Song, L Zhang… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recently, Transformer has become a prevailing deep architecture for solving vehicle routing
problems (VRPs). However, it is less effective in learning improvement models for VRP …

Dimes: A differentiable meta solver for combinatorial optimization problems

R Qiu, Z Sun, Y Yang - Advances in Neural Information …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recently, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) models have shown promising results in
solving NP-hard Combinatorial Optimization (CO) problems. However, most DRL solvers …

Deep reinforcement learning for transportation network combinatorial optimization: A survey

Q Wang, C Tang - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Traveling salesman and vehicle routing problems with their variants, as classic
combinatorial optimization problems, have attracted considerable attention for decades of …

A reinforcement learning approach for flexible job shop scheduling problem with crane transportation and setup times

Y Du, J Li, C Li, P Duan - IEEE Transactions on Neural …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) has attracted research interests as it can
significantly improve the energy, cost, and time efficiency of production. As one type of …