Adaptive Operator Selection in Bilevel Large Neighborhood Search for Electric Autonomous Dial-a-Ride Problem under Uncertainty

Abstract:The electric autonomous dial-a-ride problem (EADARP) extends the classical dial-a-ride problem by incorporating battery and charging constraints for electric vehicles. In practice, travel-time uncertainty can cause violations of time-window constraints. Large neighborhood search is effective for solving the EADARP, but its performance can depend on the choice of insertion operator during the repair phase. This paper investigates insertion-operator selection within a bilevel large neighborhood search framework for deterministic and chance-constrained variants of the EADARP. In the chance-constrained variant, arc travel times are modeled as independent normally distributed random variables, and upper time-window constraints are enforced probabilistically. We consider six selection methods, namely fixed greedy insertion, fixed regret-based insertion, random selection, a deterministic state-based rule, performance-adaptive ALNS selection, and LLM-based state-aware selection. Experimental results show comparable performance on smaller instances, while differences become more evident on larger and more constrained instances. There is no single strategy that performs best across all instances, and the relative performance of the LLM-based, rule-based, and ALNS strategies varies with the problem instance and experimental setting.

Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

arXiv:2610.04219 [cs.NE]

(or arXiv:2610.04219v1 [cs.NE] for this version)

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