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title: "Efficient Detailed Scheduling of Multiproduct Pipelines using Action-Decoupled Deep Reinforcement Learning"
source: "arXiv AI/CL/LG（论文）"
source_tier: "t2"
url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.02823v1"
permalink: "https://feed.astralor.com/items/itm_4494f99cfafed5065d71ce7d"
published: "2026-11-02T09:23:07.000Z"
score: 58
channel: "tech"
tags: ["推理效率","Efficient Detailed Scheduling","Multiproduct Pipelines","Action-Decoupled Deep Reinforcement","Learning Multiproduct","Retaining","Multiproduct"]
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# Efficient Detailed Scheduling of Multiproduct Pipelines using Action-Decoupled Deep Reinforcement Learning

## At a glance

Multiproduct pipelines transport refined products to delivery stations in sequential batches, and their detailed scheduling must meet market demand while respecting nonlinear hydraulic constraints. Retaining the full hy…

## Key points

- Multiproduct pipelines transport refined products to delivery stations in sequential batches, and their detailed scheduling must meet market demand while respecting nonlinear hydraulic constraints.
- Retaining the full hydraulic nonlinearity yields a mixed-integer nonlinear program that is computationally intractable, while the linearization commonly adopted for solver-based optimization degrades hydraulic accuracy …
- This paper develops an action-decoupled proximal policy optimization (PPO) framework that efficiently produces detailed schedules while preserving hydraulic fidelity.

## Full text

Multiproduct pipelines transport refined products to delivery stations in sequential batches, and their detailed scheduling must meet market demand while respecting nonlinear hydraulic constraints. Retaining the full hydraulic nonlinearity yields a mixed-integer nonlinear program that is computationally intractable, while the linearization commonly adopted for solver-based optimization degrades hydraulic accuracy without resolving the heavy computational burden. This paper develops an action-decoupled proximal policy optimization (PPO) framework that efficiently produces detailed schedules while preserving hydraulic fidelity. The scheduling process is cast as a semi-Markov decision process (SMDP) with flexible action durations. To handle the discrete-continuous hybrid action space, a cascaded dual-actor architecture decouples the discrete operating duration from the continuous flow decisions, eliminating the gradient interference that destabilizes conventional coupled-action policies and thereby yielding high-quality schedules far more efficiently. Validated on a real-world multiproduct pipeline in China and benchmarked against a single-actor baseline and a linearized MILP solved by Gurobi, the proposed framework achieves delivery accuracy close to the exact optimum while substantially improving flow rate stability and substantially reducing solution time.

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