Jingxi Lu
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Published · 2026

Hybrid Learning for Cold-Start-Aware Microservice Scheduling in Dynamic Edge Environments

Jingxi Lu, Wenhao Li, Jianxiong Guo, Xingjian Ding, Zhiqing Tang, Tian Wang, Weijia Jia

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 7338–7353

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This work combines offline behavior cloning with online Soft Actor-Critic to optimize latency and energy in dynamic edge environments. A rule-based expert, GRU-enhanced policy, and feasibility masking improve early-stage learning, convergence speed, and robustness.