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Record W4415221919 · doi:10.1109/twc.2025.3619100

A Deep Reinforcement Learning With Transformer Integration for Directed Acyclic Graph Scheduling in Edge Networks

2025· article· en· W4415221919 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAdvanced Graph Neural Networks
Canadian institutionsUniversity of WindsorCarleton University
FundersBasic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong ProvinceFundamental Research Funds for the Central UniversitiesNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsDirected acyclic graphReinforcement learningScheduling (production processes)Directed graphTransformerJob shop schedulingFair-share schedulingEdge computing

Abstract

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The rapid adoption of 5G technology and Internet of things (IoT) devices has fueled significant growth in intelligent applications, increasing their complexity beyond simple task definitions. Scheduling intelligent applications modeled as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) has thus emerged as a crucial challenge. Our proposed solution is a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework that uniquely integrates proximal policy optimization (PPO) with a transformer-based module for scheduling DAG applications. Unlike other approaches that rely on predefined priorities or static optimization algorithms, our approach enables agents to autonomously explore task execution orders and dynamically adapt to changing network resource conditions, learning optimal scheduling strategies. The algorithm leverages transformers to handle complex task dependencies, minimizing application duration and user energy consumption by jointly optimizing application processing order, task priorities, transmit power, offloading decisions, and computational frequency. Through a series of simulations, we prove the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm and demonstrate the performance comparison under different settings, providing a more flexible and robust solution for DAG scheduling in edge networks.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.925
Threshold uncertainty score0.985

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Open science0.0010.000
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Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.274
Teacher spread0.256 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it