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New Decision Transformer Optimizes UAV Fleet Scheduling for Energy and Delay

Researchers have developed PrefDT, a novel preference-conditioned Decision Transformer designed for multi-objective scheduling in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fleets operating in mobile edge computing (MEC) environments. This system aims to optimize the trade-off between energy consumption and delay, allowing a single trained model to dynamically adjust schedules at runtime based on desired performance points. PrefDT utilizes attention pooling for state summarization and incorporates a distillation pipeline to generate training data, outperforming 26 other methods in simulations by maintaining energy budgets within 0.6% even when propulsion costs increase mid-flight. AI

IMPACT Introduces a novel approach to real-time multi-objective optimization for edge computing systems, potentially improving efficiency in autonomous systems.

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New Decision Transformer Optimizes UAV Fleet Scheduling for Energy and Delay

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Qiao Liao, Zhiyong Feng, Bin Wu, Guodong Fan ·

    The Operable Pareto Front: Distilling Offline Search into Run-Time Control for Multi-Objective UAV Edge-Computing Scheduling

    arXiv:2609.17992v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A UAV mobile edge computing (MEC) fleet trades energy against delay, and its schedules form a Pareto front; we call a scheduler operable when the fleet can be asked for any point on that front at run time. We propose PrefDT, to th…