arXiv:2602.07913cs.ROquant-ph2026-02

将多智能体路径规划建模为无约束二元二次优化问题,实现覆盖与重叠的高效平衡。

Multi-Agent Route Planning as a QUBO Problem

  • 将路径选择转化为QUBO模型,用单一参数控制覆盖与重叠权衡。
  • 在巴塞罗那数据集上,10000辆车规模下仍能获得近似最优解。
  • 适合研究路径优化、量子计算应用及城市交通规划的读者。

多智能体路径规划旨在为每辆车分配一条预设路线,以最大化路线级覆盖效用并最小化空间重叠。本文给出了形式化定义,通过从加权集合打包问题归约证明其NP难性,并推导出一个无约束二元二次优化(QUBO)公式,其系数直接编码路线效用奖励与成对重叠惩罚。单个惩罚参数λ控制覆盖与重叠之间的权衡。区分软约束和硬约束两种情形:前者支持多目标探索,后者强惩罚可有效实现近不相交路线。描述了生成城市实例、构建候选路线、构建QUBO矩阵并使用Gurobi、模拟退火及D-Wave混合量子退火求解的完整流程。在包含最多10,000辆车辆的巴塞罗那实例上实验显示存在清晰的覆盖-重叠拐点,帕累托最优解主要出现在硬惩罚情形;随着问题规模扩大,D-Wave混合求解器与Gurobi在相同配置下取得相近目标值,运行时间差异微小。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Multi-Agent Route Planning considers selecting vehicles, each associated with a single predefined route, such that route-level coverage utility is maximized while redundant spatial overlaps are limited. This paper gives a formal problem definition, proves NP-hardness by reduction from the Weighted Set Packing problem, and derives a Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization formulation whose coefficients directly encode route utility rewards and pairwise overlap penalties. A single penalty parameter $λ$ controls the coverage--overlap trade-off. We distinguish between a soft regime, which supports multi-objective exploration, and a hard regime, in which the penalty is strong enough to effectively enforce near-disjoint routes. We describe a practical pipeline for generating city instances, constructing candidate routes, building the QUBO matrix, and solving it with a binary quadratic programming baseline (Gurobi), simulated annealing, and D-Wave hybrid quantum annealing. Experiments on Barcelona instances with up to $10{,}000$ vehicles reveal a clear coverage--overlap knee and show that Pareto-optimal solutions are mainly obtained under the hard-penalty regime, while D-Wave hybrid solvers and Gurobi achieve very similar objective values on matching configurations with only minor runtime differences as problem size grows.

路径规划QUBO多智能体量子计算

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