Learning heuristics for the tsp by policy gradient

M Deudon, P Cournut, A Lacoste, Y Adulyasak… - Integration of Constraint …, 2018 - Springer
The aim of the study is to provide interesting insights on how efficient machine learning
algorithms could be adapted to solve combinatorial optimization problems in conjunction …

Neural combinatorial optimization with reinforcement learning

I Bello, H Pham, QV Le, M Norouzi, S Bengio - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a framework to tackle combinatorial optimization problems using neural
networks and reinforcement learning. We focus on the traveling salesman problem (TSP) …

Combining reinforcement learning with Lin-Kernighan-Helsgaun algorithm for the traveling salesman problem

J Zheng, K He, J Zhou, Y Jin, CM Li - … of the AAAI conference on artificial …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
Abstract We address the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), a famous NP-hard
combinatorial optimization problem. And we propose a variable strategy reinforced …

Unsupervised learning for solving the travelling salesman problem

Y Min, Y Bai, CP Gomes - Advances in Neural Information …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We propose UTSP, an Unsupervised Learning (UL) framework for solving the Travelling
Salesman Problem (TSP). We train a Graph Neural Network (GNN) using a surrogate loss …

Deep reinforcement learning for traveling salesman problem with time windows and rejections

R Zhang, A Prokhorchuk… - 2020 International Joint …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently deep reinforcement learning has shown success in solving NP-hard combinatorial
optimization problems such as traveling salesman problems, vehicle routing problems, job …

Benchmarking optimization algorithms: An open source framework for the traveling salesman problem

T Weise, R Chiong, J Lassig, K Tang… - IEEE Computational …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce an experimentation procedure for evaluating and comparing optimization
algorithms based on the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). We argue that end-of-run …

Learning to solve travelling salesman problem with hardness-adaptive curriculum

Z Zhang, Z Zhang, X Wang, W Zhu - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Various neural network models have been proposed to tackle combinatorial optimization
problems such as the travelling salesman problem (TSP). Existing learning-based TSP …

Learning 2-opt heuristics for the traveling salesman problem via deep reinforcement learning

PR d O Costa, J Rhuggenaath… - Asian conference on …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Recent works using deep learning to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) have
focused on learning construction heuristics. Such approaches find TSP solutions of good …

Combinatorial optimization by graph pointer networks and hierarchical reinforcement learning

Q Ma, S Ge, D He, D Thaker, I Drori - arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.04936, 2019 - arxiv.org
In this work, we introduce Graph Pointer Networks (GPNs) trained using reinforcement
learning (RL) for tackling the traveling salesman problem (TSP). GPNs build upon Pointer …

H-tsp: Hierarchically solving the large-scale traveling salesman problem

X Pan, Y Jin, Y Ding, M Feng, L Zhao, L Song… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
We propose an end-to-end learning framework based on hierarchical reinforcement
learning, called H-TSP, for addressing the large-scale Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) …