Author name cluster

Xingchen Li

Possible papers associated with this exact author name in Arrow. This page groups case-insensitive exact name matches and is not a full identity disambiguation profile.

4 papers

2 author rows

AAAI Conference 2026 Conference Paper

A Solution Space Transformation-Guided Co-Evolution for Energy-Saving Distributed Heterogeneous Flexible Job Shop Scheduling

Tao Li
Xingchen Li
Haoyue Ma
Zhi-Hui Zhan

Solving energy-saving distributed heterogeneous flexible job shop scheduling problem (ES-DHFJSP) aims to enhance industrial production efficiency while minimizing energy consumption. State-of-the-art co-evolutionary algorithms have emerged as effective approaches for addressing ES-DHFJSP. However, existing methodologies demonstrate compromised convergence rates and excessive computational overhead when confronted with vast search spaces. In this work, we propose a novel solution space transformation-guided co-evolution algorithm (SSTCE) to overcome this limitation. In SSTCE, we first establish an inter-job similarity metric and incorporate constrained hierarchical clustering with optimal leaf ordering (CHC-OLO) to generate clustered job sets, which are subsequently utilized for population initialization that achieves a favorable balance between convergence and diversity. To enhance search capability in expansive solution spaces, we devise a dynamic solution space transformation mechanism that effectively reduces inefficient searches within the algorithm. Furthermore, we develop tailored local search strategies leveraging domain-specific knowledge of DHFJSP properties. Extensive experimental evaluations across 20 benchmark instances demonstrate that SSTCE significantly outperforms existing evolutionary algorithms in solving ES-DHFJSP.

PDF Details DOI

EAAI Journal 2024 Journal Article

A novel PoI temperature prediction method for heat source system based on graph convolutional networks

Qiao Li
Wen Yao
Xingchen Li
Zhiqiang Gong
Xiaohu Zheng

The ever-increasing functional density and complexity of the heat source system, the harsh chip cooling environment, as well as the cost reduction measures that require less sensor involvement are increasingly driving the need to develop new approaches for temperature monitoring and predicting. Most current researches investigate the temperature field reconstruction of the whole system. However, the reconstruction is not necessary or practical in some cases for computing consumption and unprocurable structure. The temperature prediction of the points of interest (PoIs) like the heat-sensitive area in the electronics is essentially important for function maintenance. Thus, a complete solution is proposed based on the graph convolutional networks (GCN) in this paper including the dimensional alignment, graph modeling and corresponding GCN construction. Moreover, various methods have been explored for edge modeling and node embedding obtained by Node2Vec has been integrated for better graph representation. After model training, the real-time temperature prediction of PoIs can be realized according to the corresponding temperature of monitoring points (MoPs) by the GCN. The results of experiments show that this method approach well prediction that the mean absolute error is less than 0. 01K under the condition possessing diverse MoPs and PoIs. Moreover, the comparison experiments with the baseline methods further verify the validity of this GCN-based solution.

Details DOI

ICRA Conference 2024 Conference Paper

CalibFormer: A Transformer-based Automatic LiDAR-Camera Calibration Network

Yuxuan Xiao
Yao Li 0016
Chengzhen Meng
Xingchen Li
Jianmin Ji
Yanyong Zhang

The fusion of LiDARs and cameras has been increasingly adopted in autonomous driving for perception tasks. The performance of such fusion-based algorithms largely depends on the accuracy of sensor calibration, which is challenging due to the difficulty of identifying common features across different data modalities. Previously, many calibration methods involved specific targets and/or manual intervention, which has proven to be cumbersome and costly. Learning-based online calibration methods have been proposed, but their performance is barely satisfactory in most cases. These methods usually suffer from issues such as sparse feature maps, unreliable cross-modality association, inaccurate calibration parameter regression, etc. In this paper, to address these issues, we propose CalibFormer, an end-to-end network for automatic LiDAR-camera calibration. We aggregate multiple layers of camera and LiDAR image features to achieve high-resolution representations. A multi-head correlation module is utilized to identify correlations between features more accurately. Lastly, we employ transformer architectures to estimate accurate calibration parameters from the correlation information. Our method achieved a mean translation error of 0. 8751cm and a mean rotation error of 0. 0562° on the KITTI dataset, surpassing existing state-of-the-art methods and demonstrating strong robustness, accuracy, and generalization capabilities.

Details

NeurIPS Conference 2023 Conference Paper

Two Heads are Better Than One: A Simple Exploration Framework for Efficient Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Jiahui Li
Kun Kuang
Baoxiang Wang
Xingchen Li
Fei Wu
Jun Xiao
Long Chen

Exploration strategy plays an important role in reinforcement learning, especially in sparse-reward tasks. In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning~(MARL), designing a suitable exploration strategy is much more challenging due to the large state space and the complex interaction among agents. Currently, mainstream exploration methods in MARL either contribute to exploring the unfamiliar states which are large and sparse, or measuring the interaction among agents with high computational costs. We found an interesting phenomenon that different kinds of exploration plays a different role in different MARL scenarios, and choosing a suitable one is often more effective than designing an exquisite algorithm. In this paper, we propose a exploration method that incorporate the \underline{C}uri\underline{O}sity-based and \underline{IN}fluence-based exploration~(COIN) which is simple but effective in various situations. First, COIN measures the influence of each agent on the other agents based on mutual information theory and designs it as intrinsic rewards which are applied to each individual value function. Moreover, COIN computes the curiosity-based intrinsic rewards via prediction errors which are added to the extrinsic reward. For integrating the two kinds of intrinsic rewards, COIN utilizes a novel framework in which they complement each other and lead to a sufficient and effective exploration on cooperative MARL tasks. We perform extensive experiments on different challenging benchmarks, and results across different scenarios show the superiority of our method.

PDF Details