Cloud Workflow Scheduling Based on Graph Attention-Driven Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.14952 · cs.LG, cs.NI · Submitted 2026-09-14 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.NI

Submitted: 2026-09-14

Updated: 2026-09-14

Comments: Paper submitted to IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Code: https://github.com/zongjin130/GA-HRL

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Core — 18× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 12× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Actor — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Task Scheduling — 8× in this paper
• Trace — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Action Space — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Reward Function — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Container Scheduling — 4× in this paper
• Deep Reinforcement Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Proximal Policy Optimization — 3× in this paper
• Ablation study — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Energy Efficiency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Reward Shaping — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Activation Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Formal Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Million Instructions Per Second — 1× in this paper
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes
• Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Stochastic Hybrid Workflows Scheduling — 1× in this paper
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Graph Attention Networks
• Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms

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