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.
arXiv:2607. 11725v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prefabricated prefinished volumetric construction moves most building work into module factories, whose production floor operates as a flexible job shop.
arXiv:2608.29690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advances in machine learning (ML) have created new opportunities to complement traditional operations research (OR) methods. In particular, transform...
arXiv:2602. 18109v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-time schedulers must reason about tight deadlines under strict compute budgets.
The paper introduces Variational Graph-to-Scheduler (VG2S), a framework that applies variational inference to the Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP). By decoupling representation learning from policy optimization using a variational graph encoder and an ELBO-based objective, VG2S improves training stability and robustness to hyperparameter changes. Experiments show that VG2S outperforms state‑of‑the‑art deep reinforcement learning baselines and traditional dispatching rules, especially on large‑scale benchmark instances such as DMU and SWV.
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.
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.
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.
arXiv:2607. 22356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, the growing complexity of last-mile pickup operations has increased the need for fast and accurate decision-making on logistics platforms.
arXiv:2604. 24117v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Efficient job-shop scheduling with transportation resources is critical for high-performance manufacturing.
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.
arXiv:2606. 01162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Workflow scheduling in cloud computing demands the intelligent allocation of dynamically arriving, graph-structured workflows with varying deadlines onto ever-changing virtual machine resources.
The paper introduces PORL, a hybrid method that first trains a general scheduling policy through online reinforcement learning in simulation, then fine‑tunes it offline on production data using a KL‑divergence constraint to limit policy drift. PORL is evaluated on Job Shop Scheduling Problem instances with distribution shifts and various data sources, consistently outperforming standalone offline RL and other baselines, especially when offline data quality is low. The results suggest that offline adaptation of pretrained policies can improve industrial scheduling when direct online exploration is impractical.