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Quantum-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Solutions for Last-Mile On-Demand Delivery

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  • Haebom

Author

Farzan Moosavi, Bilal Farooq

Outline

This paper presents research utilizing quantum computing to solve the large-scale capacity-constrained pick-up and delivery problem (CPDPTW). Specifically, we propose a novel method that integrates parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) into a reinforcement learning (RL) framework to minimize travel times in realistic last-mile delivery services. We design a problem-specific encoded quantum circuit that incorporates entanglement and variational layers, and demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method in terms of scale and training complexity through comparative experiments with PPO and QSVT. This presents an efficient solution to a large-scale problem that is difficult to handle with existing classical approaches.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways :
Presenting an efficient quantum computing-based solution to the large-scale CPDPTW problem.
Performance enhancement through problem-specific encoding quantum circuits.
Verification of the superiority of the proposed method through comparative experiments with PPO and QSVT.
A practical approach that takes into account realistic final delivery service environments.
Limitations :
Lack of implementation and performance evaluation of the proposed method on a real quantum computer.
Lack of detailed description of the scale of the experiment and the dataset.
Further research is needed to determine the generalizability of the CPDPTW to different types of problems.
Comparisons with other methods such as QSVT and PPO may not be comprehensive enough.
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