Artificial Intelligence · 05.08.2026, 08:39 UTC
PLAN: Parallel Liquid-Inspired Approximation Network for Efficient Representation Learning in Flexible Job Shop Scheduling
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| Kategorie | Artificial Intelligence |
| Quelle | arXiv cs.AI ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 05.08.2026 UTC |
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arXiv:2608.03041v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approaches for flexible job shop scheduling (FJSP) heavily rely on attention-centric architectures to achieve state-of-the-art performance. However, these models suffer from excessive parameter counts and prohibitive inference latency as problem scales expand. While liquid neural networks (LNNs) offer a parameter-efficient alternative for modeling adaptive state evolution, their inherently sequential dynamics bottleneck computational efficiency. To resolve this trade-off, we propose PLAN (Parallel Liquid-inspired Approximation Network), a lightweight representation learning framework that reformulates continuous liquid-state dynamics into a discretized and parallelizable formulation. PLAN structurally decouples state evolution from context aggregation, where liquid-inspired updates handle the primary evolving state representation, and a lightweight context aggregation module provides complementary global context. Furthermore, PLAN acts as a versatile, plug-and-play backbone that generalizes to complex FJSP variants, pairing with a compact stochastic module for stochastic FJSP and replacing heavy heterogeneous graph transformers in multi-faceted dynamic FJSP. Extensive evaluations across deterministic, stochastic, and multi-faceted dynamic FJSP benchmarks show that PLAN reduces the average makespan by 1.2%, 1.4%, and 2.3%, respectively, compared with the corresponding state-of-the-art baselines, with the improvement reaching 10.2% in one benchmark setting. PLAN also reduces average …