arXiv Machine Learning August 17, 2026 By Faezeh Ardali, Gerald M. Knapp

Dynamic Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing with Online Requests: Event-Driven Transformer--DRL and Rolling-Horizon Benchmarking

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arXiv:2608. 13799v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an event-driven learning and benchmarking framework for the Dynamic Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem with progressively revealed requests and evolving vehicle states.

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