Learning to iteratively solve routing problems with dual-aspect collaborative transformer

Y Ma, J Li, Z Cao, W Song, L Zhang… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recently, Transformer has become a prevailing deep architecture for solving vehicle routing
problems (VRPs). However, it is less effective in learning improvement models for VRP …

Learning improvement heuristics for solving routing problems

Y Wu, W Song, Z Cao, J Zhang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent studies in using deep learning (DL) to solve routing problems focus on construction
heuristics, whose solutions are still far from optimality. Improvement heuristics have great …

A deep reinforcement learning algorithm using dynamic attention model for vehicle routing problems

B Peng, J Wang, Z Zhang - … ISICA 2019, Guangzhou, China, November 16 …, 2020 - Springer
Recent researches show that machine learning has the potential to learn better heuristics
than the one designed by human for solving combinatorial optimization problems. The deep …

A lexicographic-based two-stage algorithm for vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup–delivery and time window

Y Shi, Y Zhou, T Boudouh, O Grunder - Engineering Applications of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup–delivery and time window (VRPSPDTW)
is computationally challenging as it generalizes the classical and NP-hard vehicle routing …

Reinforcement learning based truck-and-drone coordinated delivery

G Wu, M Fan, J Shi, Y Feng - IEEE Transactions on Artificial …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coronavirus disease 2019 has brought a great challenge to the supply of daily necessities
and medical items for home-quarantined people. Considering the unmanned operation …

Towards omni-generalizable neural methods for vehicle routing problems

J Zhou, Y Wu, W Song, Z Cao… - … Conference on Machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Learning heuristics for vehicle routing problems (VRPs) has gained much attention due to
the less reliance on hand-crafted rules. However, existing methods are typically trained and …

Learning to solve multiple-TSP with time window and rejections via deep reinforcement learning

R Zhang, C Zhang, Z Cao, W Song… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a manager-worker framework (the implementation of our model is publically
available at: https://github. com/zcaicaros/manager-worker-mtsptwr) based on deep …

Learning to delegate for large-scale vehicle routing

S Li, Z Yan, C Wu - Advances in Neural Information …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Vehicle routing problems (VRPs) form a class of combinatorial problems with wide practical
applications. While previous heuristic or learning-based works achieve decent solutions on …

Reinforcement learning for solving the vehicle routing problem

M Nazari, A Oroojlooy, L Snyder… - Advances in neural …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We present an end-to-end framework for solving the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) using
reinforcement learning. In this approach, we train a single policy model that finds near …

Efficiently solving the practical vehicle routing problem: A novel joint learning approach

L Duan, Y Zhan, H Hu, Y Gong, J Wei… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Our model is based on the graph convolutional network (GCN) with node feature
(coordination and demand) and edge feature (the real distance between nodes) as input …