arXiv Machine Learning By Gojko Perovic, Nuno Ferreira Duarte, Atabak Dehban, Gon\c{c}alo Teixeira, Egidio Falotico, Jos\'e Santos-Victor

HERB: Human-augmented Efficient Reinforcement learning for Bin-packing

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arXiv:2504. 16595v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Packing objects efficiently is a fundamental problem in logistics, warehouse automation, and robotics.

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