Research

Published / Accepted

^* Corresponding author.

1. [RL+VRP] Kuan Xu, Zhiguang Cao, Chenlong Zheng, and Lindong Liu^*.
   Learning to Search for Vehicle Routing with Multiple Time Windows.
   Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2025. [Paper]

2. [RL+VRP] Kuan Xu, Li Shen, and Lindong Liu^*.
   Enhancing Column Generation by Reinforcement Learning-Based Hyper-Heuristic for Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Problems.
   Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2025. [Paper]

Under Review / Revision

1. [RL+JSP] Kuan Xu, Lindong Liu, Yaotai Zhang, Cong Zhang, and Zhiguang Cao.
   Learning to Search for Flexible Job-shop Scheduling Problem with Queue-Time Constraints in Semiconductor Manufacturing.
   IEEE Transactions on Evolution Computing, Under Review.

2. [Bin Packing] Jianming Wang, Kuan Xu, and Zhouwang Yang.
   Large neighborhood search for the two-dimensional irregular bin packing problem.
   European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), Major Revision.

Work in Progress

1. [LLM + JSP] with Zhiguang Cao.
   LLM-Driven Discovery of Heuristic Operators for Job Shop Scheduling Problems.
   

2. [GNN + Game] with Lindong Liu.
   Machine Learning-Based Row Generation for Cost Allocation Problem on Graphs.