arXiv AI

SynthCharge: An Electric Vehicle Routing Instance Generator with Feasibility Screening to Enable Learning-Based Optimization and Benchmarking

SynthCharge is a parametric generator that creates diverse, feasibility‑screened instances of the electric vehicle routing problem with time windows (EVRPTW). It produces instances ranging from 5 to 100 customers (up to 500 in theory) with adaptive energy capacity scaling and range‑aware charging station placement, filtering out unsolvable cases via a fast feasibility screening process. This dynamic benchmarking infrastructure enables systematic evaluation of learning‑based routing and data‑driven approaches.

arXiv AI
Aug 25

Memory-Enhanced Neural Solvers for Routing Problems

The paper introduces MEMENTO, a memory‑enhanced neural solver that improves routing problem solutions by using online data from repeated attempts to adjust action distributions during inference. It targets NP‑hard routing tasks such as the Traveling Salesman and Capacitated Vehicle Routing problems, outperforming existing tree‑search and policy‑gradient fine‑tuning methods. MEMENTO demonstrates strong scalability and data efficiency, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results on 11 of 12 evaluated tasks and enabling zero‑shot integration with diversity‑based solvers.

By Felix Chalumeau, Refiloe Shabe, Noah De Nicola, Arnu Pretorius, Thomas D. Barrett, Nathan Grinsztajn
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Optimizing Nursing Care Taxi Dispatch Leveraging Integer Linear Programming Solvers and Machine Learning

arXiv:2606. 29725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we formulate a new vehicle dispatch optimization problem, called Nursing Care Taxi Dispatch, as a variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem, considering constraints related to wheelchair use, user compatibility, pick-up and drop-off times, and vehicle limitations.

By Riku Nakao, Akihito Hiromori, Hamada Rizk, Hirozumi Yamaguchi
arXiv AI
Sep 15

LLM-Enhanced Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Unified Electric Vehicles-Charging Station-Grid Optimization in Public Charging Systems

The paper introduces a Large Language Model–enhanced Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning framework for optimizing electric vehicle charging, station profitability, and grid stability in public charging systems. By using an LLM to select interpretable features from IoT data and dynamically balance conflicting objectives, the approach unifies grid, EV, and station optimization in a single loop. Experiments show the method outperforms existing baselines, improving market efficiency and cutting training time by more than 70%.

By Yang Zhang, Lindong Xie, Chongyu Wang, Gaojunjie Li, Siqi Bu, Edward Chung