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A Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Based Optimization Framework for Large-scale Dynamic Pickup and Delivery Problems Yi Ma

Neural Information Processing Systems

To address this problem, existing methods partition the overall DPDP into fixed-size sub-problems by caching online generated orders and solve each sub-problem, or on this basis to utilize the predicted future orders to optimize each sub-problem further. However, the solution quality and efficiency of these methods are unsatisfactory, especially when the problem scale is very large.





Benchmarking Robustness to Adversarial Image Obfuscations

Neural Information Processing Systems

Advances in in computer vision have lead to classifiers that nearly match human performance in many applications. However, while the human visual system is remarkably versatile in extracting semantic meaning out of even degraded and heavily obfuscated images, today's visual classifiers significantly lag behind in emulating the same robustness, and often yield incorrect outputs in the presence of natural and adversarial degradations.



Hail our new robot overlords! Amazon warehouse tour offers glimpse of future

The Guardian

Amazon is reportedly developing'humanoid' robots to pop out of delivery vans to deliver packages, eventually replacing the work of delivery drivers. Amazon is reportedly developing'humanoid' robots to pop out of delivery vans to deliver packages, eventually replacing the work of delivery drivers. O ne of the reasons Amazon is spending billions on robots? They don't need bathroom breaks. Arriving a few minutes early to the public tour of Amazon's hi-tech Stone Mountain, Georgia, warehouse, my request to visit the restroom was met with a resounding no from the security guard in the main lobby.

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This Mega Snowstorm Will Be a Test for the US Supply Chain

WIRED

Shipping experts say the big winter storm across a wide swath of the country should be business as usual--if their safeguards hold. Up to two-thirds of the US is facing down the threat of serious snow, cold, and ice this weekend, with the potential to snarl roads (and the businesses that depend on them) from Texas up to New York City . At this point, grocery stores, logistics experts, warehouse operators, and trucking companies have been prepping for days. Still, the effects on the supply chain--and the retail store shelves that depend on them--are yet to be determined. On one hand, this is winter business as usual.

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Reinforcement Learning with Combinatorial Actions: An Application to Vehicle Routing

Neural Information Processing Systems

Our approach is competitive with other reinforcement learning methods and achieves an average gap of 1.7% with state-of-the-art OR methods on standard library instances of


A Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Based Optimization Framework for Large-scale Dynamic Pickup and Delivery Problems

Neural Information Processing Systems

The Dynamic Pickup and Delivery Problem (DPDP) is an essential problem in the logistics domain, which is NP-hard. The objective is to dynamically schedule vehicles among multiple sites to serve the online generated orders such that the overall transportation cost could be minimized. The critical challenge of DPDP is the orders are not known a priori, i.e., the orders are dynamically generated in real-time. To address this problem, existing methods partition the overall DPDP into fixed-size sub-problems by caching online generated orders and solve each sub-problem, or on this basis to utilize the predicted future orders to optimize each sub-problem further. However, the solution quality and efficiency of these methods are unsatisfactory, especially when the problem scale is very large. In this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical optimization framework to better solve large-scale DPDPs.