Adaptive Bias Generalized Rollout Policy Adaptation on the Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling Problem

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Main Authors: Kobrosly, Lotfi, Graviers, Marc-Emmanuel Coupvent des, Guettier, Christophe, Cazenave, Tristan
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author Kobrosly, Lotfi
Graviers, Marc-Emmanuel Coupvent des
Guettier, Christophe
Cazenave, Tristan
author_facet Kobrosly, Lotfi
Graviers, Marc-Emmanuel Coupvent des
Guettier, Christophe
Cazenave, Tristan
contents The Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSSP) is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem, with several application domains, especially for manufacturing purposes. The objective is to efficiently schedule multiple operations on dissimilar machines. These operations are gathered into jobs, and operations pertaining to the same job need to be scheduled sequentially. Different methods have been previously tested to solve this problem, such as Constraint Solving, Tabu Search, Genetic Algorithms, or Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS). We propose a novel algorithm derived from the Generalized Nested Rollout Policy Adaptation, developed to solve the FJSSP. We report encouraging experimental results, as our algorithm performs better than other MCTS-based approaches, even if makespans obtained on large instances are still far from known upper bounds.
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spellingShingle Adaptive Bias Generalized Rollout Policy Adaptation on the Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling Problem
Kobrosly, Lotfi
Graviers, Marc-Emmanuel Coupvent des
Guettier, Christophe
Cazenave, Tristan
Artificial Intelligence
The Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSSP) is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem, with several application domains, especially for manufacturing purposes. The objective is to efficiently schedule multiple operations on dissimilar machines. These operations are gathered into jobs, and operations pertaining to the same job need to be scheduled sequentially. Different methods have been previously tested to solve this problem, such as Constraint Solving, Tabu Search, Genetic Algorithms, or Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS). We propose a novel algorithm derived from the Generalized Nested Rollout Policy Adaptation, developed to solve the FJSSP. We report encouraging experimental results, as our algorithm performs better than other MCTS-based approaches, even if makespans obtained on large instances are still far from known upper bounds.
title Adaptive Bias Generalized Rollout Policy Adaptation on the Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling Problem
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08451