arXiv AI

KAYROS: An Anytime and Exact Open-Source Solver for Duration-Minimization Time-Dependent Vehicle Routing. A Technical Report and a Case Study in Human-AI Engineering

arXiv:2607. 23116v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: KAYROS is an open-source solver for duration-minimization time-dependent vehicle routing problems, with or without time windows (TDVRPTW, TDVRP).

arXiv AI
Aug 24

Online design of dynamic networks

arXiv:2410.08875v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Designing a network (e.g., a telecommunication or transport network) is mainly done offline, in a planning phase, prior to the operation of the net...

By Duo Wang, Andrea Araldo, Mounim El Yacoubi
arXiv AI
Aug 19

Dijkstra as an Oracle for Online Stochastic Shortest Path Navigation with Provable Guarantees

The paper presents DORA, an online learning algorithm for robot navigation that uses Dijkstra’s algorithm as an exact planning engine under a weaker condition than usual causality—specifically, nonnegativity of a reduced cost on a determinized map. DORA calls a shortest‑path oracle a fixed number of times per episode, avoids estimating transition kernels, and incorporates a logarithmic survival weight to keep contact probabilities with dynamic obstacles within a budget. Experiments on grid‑world, directional drilling, and drone surveillance benchmarks show that DORA matches optimistic value iteration with the true transition kernel while performing 4.5 to 19.3 times less planner work, reduces contacts by a factor of seventeen compared to determinize‑and‑replan, and maintains contact rates within wide budget ranges.

By Mansur M. Arief, Ali Akarma, Ahmad Alfan Alfian Irfan
arXiv AI
Sep 4

Counterfactual Routing Using Integer Programming with Constraint Generation

The paper "Counterfactual Routing Using Integer Programming with Constraint Generation" presents a solution to the IJCAI 2025 Counterfactual Routing Competition. The authors model the problem as an integer program and iteratively add constraints until an exact solution is found. In evaluation on held‑out test instances, their method ranked fourth in solution quality and was the fastest, averaging 9.0 seconds versus 118.8 seconds for the next‑fastest submission.

By Dani\"el Vos, Sterre Lutz
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 3

TALSC: Timeliness-Aware Large-Small VLM Collaboration for Infrastructure-Assisted Autonomous Driving

The deployment of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in autonomous driving (AD) systems is constrained by on-board computing power, restricting vehicles to small VLMs (SVLMs) with limited perception and reasoning capabilities. Infrastructure-assisted AD alleviates this resource constraint by enabling collaboration with large VLMs (LVLMs) at edge servers.