arXiv Machine Learning

Agentic-Kube: A Graph-Enhanced Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Framework for Multi-Objective Kubernetes Scheduling

Agentic‑Kube is a cooperative multi‑agent reinforcement learning framework for Kubernetes pod placement that splits the multi‑objective scheduling problem into cost minimisation, anti‑affinity fault tolerance, and vector resource balancing, each handled by a dedicated sub‑agent. It uses a bipartite Graph Convolutional Network to model host‑pod dependencies, a two‑stage monotonic QMIX value factorisation network for joint action coherence, and a plurality voting consensus with action feasibility masking. Evaluations on Google Kubernetes Engine and large‑scale clusters show Pareto‑efficient placements, a 53% reduction in anti‑affinity collisions, a 65% spot instance allocation ratio, and sub‑30 ms decision latencies up to 1,000 nodes without container restarts.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 24

Learning to Remember: Attentive Reinforcement Learning for Edge Serverless Autoscaling

The paper introduces a stability‑aware autoscaling framework for edge serverless workloads that combines an Attention‑Enhanced Double‑Stacked LSTM with Proximal Policy Optimization to address temporal blindness in deep reinforcement learning. By weighting recent historical states non‑uniformly, the method suppresses high‑frequency jitter while preserving demand trends, outperforming single‑layer LSTM, static HPA, and KEDA baselines in latency reduction and stability. Experiments on two Kubernetes clusters with real Azure Functions traces show a ~67% reduction in P90 latency and improved adherence to a 50 ms hard SLO.

By Faraz Shaikh, Gianluca Reali, Mauro Femminella
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

MCRL2: Multi-resource Cross-attention-based Representation Learning-augmented Reinforcement Learning for Cloud Microservice Scheduling

MCRL2 is a reinforcement learning framework that enhances microservice scheduling in cloud data centers by integrating multi-resource cross-attention-based representation learning. It introduces MCRL, a representation learning component that captures structured interactions among nodes, resources, and microservices, and couples this with an actor‑critic architecture and a maximum entropy objective. Experiments on real production cluster traces show that MCRL2 outperforms existing baselines in load balancing, scheduling success rate, and average completion time across diverse workloads.

By Tiangang Li, Shi Ying, Xiangbo Tian, Chuan Shi, Ding Xiao
arXiv AI
Jul 24

CRAWO: Custom Resources for Adaptive Workload Orchestration

arXiv:2607. 20490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Edge Intelligence has emerged as a key paradigm for enabling real-time applications in smart cities by shifting computation from centralized cloud data centers to the network edge, thereby reducing latency and bandwidth consumption.

By Eug\^enio Santos, Daniel Maia, Stefano Loss, Jos\'e Manoel Silva, Aluizio Rocha Neto, Thais Batista, Everton Cavalcante, N\'elio Cacho, Eduardo Nogueira, Daniel Ara\'ujo, Frederico Lopes
arXiv AI
Jun 16

RollArt: Disaggregated Multi-Task Agentic RL Training at Scale

arXiv:2512. 22560v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL) trains LLMs through multi-turn interactions with environments, producing workloads that mix compute-bound prefill, bandwidth-bound decoding, CPU-heavy environment execution, and bursty reward evaluation.

By Wei Gao, Yuheng Zhao, Tianyuan Wu, Shaopan Xiong, Weixun Wang, Dakai An, Lunxi Cao, Dilxat Muhtar, Zichen Liu, Haizhou Zhao, Ju Huang, Siran Yang, Yongbin Li, Wenbo Su, Jiamang Wang, Lin Qu, Bo Zheng, Wei Wang
arXiv AI
Jun 19

Oranits: Mission Assignment and Task Offloading in Open RAN-based ITS using Metaheuristic and Deep Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2507. 19712v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we explore mission assignment and task offloading in an Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN)-based intelligent transportation system (ITS), where autonomous vehicles leverage mobile edge computing for efficient processing.

By Ngoc Hung Nguyen, Nguyen Van Thieu, Quang-Trung Luu, Anh Tuan Nguyen, Senura Wanasekara, Nguyen Cong Luong, Fatemeh Kavehmadavani, Van-Dinh Nguyen