arXiv:2606. 13682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The open shop scheduling problem (OSSP) arises in many industrial and service settings but remains computationally challenging as the number of jobs and machines increases.
By Faezeh Ardali, Mwembezi A. Nyelele, Gerald M. Knapp
arXiv:2606. 17266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Production planning increasingly has to treat workforce capability as a decision variable: certifications lapse when skills are not maintained, new products require skills the current workforce does not hold, and reskilling competes for the same worker hours needed for production.
By Carlos Eduardo Sanoja
arXiv:2606. 18284v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The limiting resource for training agents via reinforcement learning (RL) is increasingly frontier task supply: valid, solvable tasks just difficult enough to train the current model.
By Lorenz Wolf, Connor Watts, Roger Creus Castanyer, Geoffrey Bradway, Maxwill Lin, Augustine N. Mavor-Parker, Matthew Daborn-Sargent
arXiv:2603. 23249v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Efficient scheduling of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) is a core problem in large-scale data-intensive computing systems, where query plans, data-processing workloads, and computation graphs consist of dependent tasks competing for limited heterogeneous resource pools.
By Ruisong Zhou, Haijun Zou, Li Zhou, Chumin Sun, Zaiwen Wen
arXiv:2603. 27628v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In dynamic flexible job shops, order arrivals, machine breakdowns, and processing-time deviations continually reshape the scheduling state and the priority trade-offs behind dispatching decisions.
By XinLei Zhou, Jin Huang, Jie Yang, Xinyu Li, Liang Gao
arXiv:2606. 03077v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a standard post-training paradigm for large language models (LLMs), extending beyond preference alignment to complex reasoning and multi-turn agentic behaviors.
By Kaiwen Chen, Xin Tan, Jingzong Li, Hong Xu
arXiv:2602. 18109v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-time schedulers must reason about tight deadlines under strict compute budgets.
By Rong Fu, Yibo Meng, Zeyu Zhang, Ziming Guo, Jia Yee Tan, Xiaojing Du, Simon James Fong
arXiv:2604. 23841v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Efficiently solving the Job Shop Scheduling Problem in real-world industrial applications requires policies that are both computationally lean and topologically robust.
By Jonathan Hoss, Moritz Link, Noah Klarmann
arXiv:2509. 10303v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Online reinforcement learning (RL) approaches have demonstrated strong performance on Job Shop Scheduling (JSP) and Flexible JSP (FJSP) problems by learning scheduling policies through direct interaction with simulated environments.
By Jesse van Remmerden, Zaharah Bukhsh, Yingqian Zhang
arXiv:2607. 13389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) post-training is increasingly used to adapt foundation models for reasoning, planning, and feedback-driven robot-learning pipelines, but constrained post-training resources are often summarized by a single total FLOP budget.
By Patrick Wilhelm, Odej Kao
arXiv:2605. 26418v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A properly calibrated rule-based autoscaler can beat every one of six mainstream deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms on cost across every workload we test - so when, if ever, does DRL actually help?
By Guilin Zhang, Chuanyi Sun, Kai Zhao, Shahryar Sarkani, John Fossaceca
arXiv:2608. 10357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon tool-using agents must reason over user goals, domain policies, tool calls, simulator state, and delayed verifiable rewards.
By Zelei Cheng, Amritansh Mishra, Sambit Sahu, William Campbell