Deep Reinforcement Learning Assisted Genetic Programming Ensemble Hyper-Heuristics for Dynamic Scheduling of Container Port Trucks

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@Article{Chen:TEVC,

• author = "Xinan Chen and Ruibin Bai and Rong Qu and Jing Dong and Yaochu Jin",
• journal = "IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation",
• title = "Deep Reinforcement Learning Assisted Genetic Programming Ensemble Hyper-Heuristics for Dynamic Scheduling of Container Port Trucks",
• note = "Early access",
• abstract = "Efficient truck dispatching is crucial for optimising container terminal operations within dynamic and complex scenarios. Despite good progress being made recently with more advanced uncertainty-handling techniques, existing approaches still have generalisation issues and require considerable expertise and manual interventions in algorithm design. In this work, we present deep reinforcement learning-assisted genetic programming hyper-heuristics (DRL-GPHH) and their ensemble variant (DRL-GPEHH). These frameworks use a reinforcement learning agent to orchestrate a set of auto-generated genetic programming (GP) low-level heuristics, leveraging the collective intelligence, ensuring advanced robustness and an increased level of automation of the algorithm development. DRL-GPEHH, notably, excels through its concurrent integration of a GP heuristic ensemble, achieving enhanced adaptability and performance in complex, dynamic optimisation tasks. This method effectively navigates traditional convergence issues of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in sparse reward and vast action spaces, while avoiding the reliance on expert-designed heuristics. It also addresses the inadequate performance of the single GP individual in varying and complex environments and preserves the inherent interpretability of the GP approach. Evaluations across various real port operational instances highlight the adaptability and efficacy of our frameworks. Essentially, innovations in DRL-GPHH and DRL-GPEHH reveal the synergistic potential of reinforcement learning and GP in dynamic truck dispatching, yielding transformative impacts on algorithm design and significantly advancing solutions to complex real-world optimisation problems.",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Containers, Dispatching, Seaports, Optimisation, Heuristic algorithms, Reinforcement learning, Marine vehicles, automatic truck dispatching, dynamic task scheduling, reinforcement learning",
• DOI = "doi:10.1109/TEVC.2024.3381042",
• ISSN = "1941-0026",
• notes = "Also known as \cite{10478109}",

}

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