A hybrid of deep reinforcement learning and local search for the vehicle routing problems

J Zhao, M Mao, X Zhao, J Zou - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Different variants of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) have been studied for decades.
State-of-the-art methods based on local search have been developed for VRPs, while still …

Learn to design the heuristics for vehicle routing problem

L Gao, M Chen, Q Chen, G Luo, N Zhu, Z Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
This paper presents an approach to learn the local-search heuristics that iteratively improves
the solution of Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). A local-search heuristics is composed of a …

Multi-decoder attention model with embedding glimpse for solving vehicle routing problems

L Xin, W Song, Z Cao, J Zhang - … of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
We present a novel deep reinforcement learning method to learn construction heuristics for
vehicle routing problems. In specific, we propose a Multi-Decoder Attention Model (MDAM) …

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 …

Vehicle routing problem using reinforcement learning: Recent advancements

SM Raza, M Sajid, J Singh - Advanced machine intelligence and signal …, 2022 - Springer
In the realization of smart cities, the most important component is the smart logistics in which
the vehicle routing problem (VRP) plays a significant role. The VRP has been proven to be …

Towards faster vehicle routing by transferring knowledge from customer representation

L Feng, Y Huang, IW Tsang, A Gupta… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a well-known NP-hard combinatorial optimization
problem, which has wide spread applications in real world, such as logistics, bus route …

Learning to solve vehicle routing problems: A survey

A Bogyrbayeva, M Meraliyev, T Mustakhov… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper provides a systematic overview of machine learning methods applied to solve NP-
hard Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs). Recently, there has been a great interest from both …

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 …

Generalize learned heuristics to solve large-scale vehicle routing problems in real-time

Q Hou, J Yang, Y Su, X Wang, Y Deng - The Eleventh International …, 2023 - openreview.net
Large-scale Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs) are widely used in logistics, transportation,
supply chain, and robotic systems. Recently, data-driven VRP heuristics are proposed to …

Neural large neighborhood search for the capacitated vehicle routing problem

A Hottung, K Tierney - ECAI 2020, 2020 - ebooks.iospress.nl
Learning how to automatically solve optimization problems has the potential to provide the
next big leap in optimization technology. The performance of automatically learned …