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arxiv: 2606.25553 · v1 · pith:F57DKJIKnew · submitted 2026-06-24 · 💻 cs.DC

Latency-Aware Service Placement using Neural Combinatorial Optimisers for Edge--Cloud Systems

Kimia Abedpour , Mohammadsadeq Garshasbi Herabad , Zheng Li , Javid Taheri This is my paper

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keywords service placementedge-cloud systemsneural combinatorial optimizationgraph neural networksreinforcement learninglatency optimizationmicroservice deploymentcombinatorial optimization
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The pith

EP-NCO uses dual-graph neural networks and reinforcement learning to place microservices across edge-cloud systems and reduces total response time by 46 to 50 percent versus genetic algorithms.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces a learning-based framework called EP-NCO to decide where to run the interdependent pieces of modern IoT applications on mixtures of edge devices and cloud servers. It builds two connected graphs, one for the available machines and one for the application components, then trains graph neural networks to create useful descriptions of both. Reinforcement learning policies use those descriptions to build complete placements while tracking execution time, network delays, and how bandwidth is shared. Simulations at different sizes show the resulting placements finish user requests faster than both classic search methods and other learning approaches. After training the system can make new decisions quickly enough for environments that change often and contain hundreds of machines.

Core claim

EP-NCO employs a dual-graph model to capture resource relationships and service dependencies within both computing infrastructure and application structure. Graph neural networks learn structural embeddings of infrastructure nodes and service components, whereas reinforcement learning policies construct feasible placements that account for execution latency, communication link delays, and bandwidth-sharing effects. Extensive simulations across multiple system scales demonstrate that EP-NCO consistently achieves high-quality placement decisions, reducing the total service response time by 46 percent to 50 percent compared with metaheuristics and by 25 percent to 35 percent compared with contr

What carries the argument

The dual-graph model that encodes both the computing infrastructure and the application service dependencies, whose node embeddings from graph neural networks are fed to reinforcement learning policies that build complete placements while respecting latency and bandwidth constraints.

If this is right

  • Enables fast online placement decisions after training for systems with hundreds of nodes and thousands of applications.
  • Accounts for execution latency, communication delays, and bandwidth sharing when constructing placements.
  • Maintains performance improvements across different simulated system sizes compared with both metaheuristics and other reinforcement learning methods.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same dual-graph plus reinforcement learning structure could be tested on related assignment problems such as task scheduling in data centers.
  • Real deployments would need additional mechanisms to handle workload changes that were not present in the training simulations.
  • The fast inference property may allow the method to replace periodic re-optimization loops in orchestration platforms that currently rely on slower search procedures.

Load-bearing premise

The simulated system scales and workload patterns used in the experiments are representative of real heterogeneous edge-cloud infrastructures with dynamic arrivals and bandwidth-sharing effects.

What would settle it

Direct measurement of end-to-end service response times when the same placement algorithm is run on a physical multi-node edge-cloud testbed using real microservice workloads and live network traffic.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.25553 by Javid Taheri, Kimia Abedpour, Mohammadsadeq Garshasbi Herabad, Zheng Li.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Conceptual comparison of solution quality versus execution time for greedy, rule-based heuristic, metaheuristic, exact, RL, Q-Learning, and NCO approaches. Neural combinatorial optimisation (NCO) has recently emerged as an alternative paradigm for solving large-scale combinatorial problems using neural networks. By learning constructive heuristics directly, often through RL, NCO can efficiently generate hi… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Multi-tier edge-to-cloud architecture including edge￾connected-devices, access point, edge, cloud, and cloud￾connected layers. 3. Service Placement and System Model A multi-tier edge–cloud computing environment com￾prising heterogeneous computational and networking re￾sources is considered to represent an edge-cloud system (the most common representation of compute continuum platforms) that spans from edge… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Proposed dual-graph encoder–decoder architecture based on GNN encoding and autoregressive decoding with multi-head attention. Neural Combinatorial Optimisation: The EP-NCO solver/model learns solution construction policies for discrete optimisation problems using existing solutions or procedures. EP-NCO uses a neural model to map problem instances to high-quality solutions. Given a search space 𝑋 and objec… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: service placement response time of algorithms across different scales 6.1. Overall Performance Analysis The results in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Average response time per service across infrastructure scales. and rule-based heuristics. In particular, the consistently low bars associated with the EP-NCO configurations underscore their overall efficiency, whereas the progressively larger bars observed for rule-based heuristics emphasise their limited applicability. This aggregated view reinforces the general performance hierarchy identified earlier w… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Distribution of service response time per service in different training scales and inference of XLarge scale [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Cross-over number of XL runs after which a learning method becomes faster end-to-end (training + N × inference), and cross-over points by compute budget (CPU-hours). The learning methods are adjusted to accommodate the difference between 14 cores used in EP-NCO vs. one core used in GA/PSO [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Training reward progression of learning-based placement models. The curves illustrate the convergence behaviour of EP-NCO and RL variants across training epochs, highlighting the faster and more stable optimisation achieved by EP-NCO due to its GNN-based representation. assignment. RL models, while computationally lighter dur￾ing training, require more epochs to attain similar reward magnitudes and are mor… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Inference performance on previously unseen XL problem instances. The first 50 test instances are zoomed-in to illustrate the per-instance behaviour of the EP-NCO and RL variants compared with the metaheuristic and heuristic baselines. Hard-decoder EP-NCO models consistently achieve the lowest and most stable service response time trajectories. the EP-NCO , which captures service–infrastructure inter￾action… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

The growth of Internet of Things (IoT) applications and latency-sensitive services has increased the demand for efficient service placement across compute continuum platforms, such as edge--cloud systems. Modern applications are decomposed into interdependent microservices deployed over heterogeneous infrastructures, making placement under resource and network constraints an intractable NP-hard combinatorial optimisation problem. This study proposes a latency-aware Edge Placement Neural Combinatorial Optimiser (EP-NCO), a learning-based framework for service placement in compute continuum platforms. EP-NCO employs a dual-graph model to capture resource relationships and service dependencies within both computing infrastructure and application structure. Graph neural networks (GNNs) learn structural embeddings of infrastructure nodes and service components, whereas reinforcement learning policies construct feasible placements that account for execution latency, communication link delays, and bandwidth-sharing effects. Extensive simulations across multiple system scales demonstrate that EP-NCO consistently achieves high-quality placement decisions, reducing the total service response time by 46%--50% compared with metaheuristics (genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimisation) and by 25%--35% compared with controlled RL ablation baselines. Once trained, EP-NCO enables fast online inference, making it a practical solution for dynamic large-scale edge--cloud environments with hundreds of computing nodes, hosting thousands of applications, which is significantly beyond the capability of current scheduling systems.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes EP-NCO, a latency-aware neural combinatorial optimizer for service placement in edge-cloud systems. It uses a dual-graph model with GNNs to embed infrastructure nodes and service dependencies, then applies RL policies to construct placements accounting for execution latency, link delays, and bandwidth sharing. Extensive simulations across system scales are reported to yield 46-50% reductions in total service response time versus genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization baselines, and 25-35% versus controlled RL ablations, with fast online inference suitable for large deployments.

Significance. If the simulation results prove robust, the work addresses a practically relevant NP-hard problem in compute-continuum platforms and supplies a scalable learning-based alternative to metaheuristics. The dual-graph formulation and explicit modeling of bandwidth-sharing effects constitute clear technical strengths; fast inference after training is a useful property for dynamic environments.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4] §4 (Experimental Setup) and the abstract: the workload arrival processes, bandwidth-sharing model, and node heterogeneity parameters are not shown to match production edge-cloud traces or real IoT workloads. Because the headline 46-50% and 25-35% gains rest entirely on these synthetic simulations, the lack of fidelity validation is load-bearing for the central empirical claim.
  2. [§4] §4, performance tables: no information is supplied on the number of independent runs, statistical tests, variance, or exact baseline implementations (e.g., how GA/PSO hyperparameters were tuned or how the RL ablations were controlled). This prevents assessment of whether the reported percentage improvements are statistically reliable or reproducible.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3] Notation for the dual-graph model and GNN embedding dimensions could be introduced with an explicit diagram or table in §3 to improve readability.
  2. The manuscript would benefit from a short discussion of training time versus inference time trade-offs, even if only in the supplementary material.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments on the experimental setup. We agree that additional transparency is required to support the empirical claims and will revise the manuscript to address both points.

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  1. Referee: [§4] §4 (Experimental Setup) and the abstract: the workload arrival processes, bandwidth-sharing model, and node heterogeneity parameters are not shown to match production edge-cloud traces or real IoT workloads. Because the headline 46-50% and 25-35% gains rest entirely on these synthetic simulations, the lack of fidelity validation is load-bearing for the central empirical claim.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the simulations rely on synthetic workloads without direct validation against specific production traces. Publicly available edge-cloud datasets with the required granularity for service dependencies and bandwidth sharing are scarce. In the revised manuscript we will expand §4 with a justification of parameter choices drawn from established models in the literature (exponential inter-arrival times, node capacities 1-10 cores, bandwidth sharing factors from prior edge studies). We will also add a limitations subsection explicitly noting the synthetic nature of the evaluation and identifying real-trace validation as future work. This provides necessary context while preserving the reported simulation results. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [§4] §4, performance tables: no information is supplied on the number of independent runs, statistical tests, variance, or exact baseline implementations (e.g., how GA/PSO hyperparameters were tuned or how the RL ablations were controlled). This prevents assessment of whether the reported percentage improvements are statistically reliable or reproducible.

    Authors: We agree these details are essential and were omitted. The revised manuscript will update §4 and the tables to report: results from 30 independent runs with means and standard deviations; statistical significance via Wilcoxon signed-rank tests (p < 0.05); full GA settings (population size 50, 100 generations, mutation 0.1); PSO settings (swarm size 30, 200 iterations); and identical training protocols for all RL ablations. These additions will allow readers to assess reliability and reproducibility. revision: yes

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full rationale

The provided abstract and context describe a proposed EP-NCO framework using GNNs and RL policies to solve a combinatorial placement problem, with performance evaluated against external metaheuristics (GA, PSO) and RL ablations. No equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, self-definitional constructs, or load-bearing self-citations are quoted or evident that would reduce claimed latency reductions to internal definitions by construction. The central claims rest on simulation comparisons to independent baselines rather than tautological reductions, making the derivation self-contained.

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    purpose: Learning-based framework for latency-aware service placement
    Introduced as the proposed method in the abstract.

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