Learning feature embedding refiner for solving vehicle routing problems

J Li, Y Ma, Z Cao, Y Wu, W Song… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While the encoder–decoder structure is widely used in the recent neural construction
methods for learning to solve vehicle routing problems (VRPs), they are less effective in …

Cross-problem learning for solving vehicle routing problems

Z Lin, Y Wu, B Zhou, Z Cao, W Song, Y Zhang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Existing neural heuristics often train a deep architecture from scratch for each specific
vehicle routing problem (VRP), ignoring the transferable knowledge across different VRP …

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 …

Distilling autoregressive models to obtain high-performance non-autoregressive solvers for vehicle routing problems with faster inference speed

Y Xiao, D Wang, B Li, M Wang, X Wu, C Zhou… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Neural construction models have shown promising performance for Vehicle Routing
Problems (VRPs) by adopting either the Autoregressive (AR) or Non-Autoregressive (NAR) …

Towards generalizable neural solvers for vehicle routing problems via ensemble with transferrable local policy

C Gao, H Shang, K Xue, D Li, C Qian - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.14104, 2023 - arxiv.org
Machine learning has been adapted to help solve NP-hard combinatorial optimization
problems. One prevalent way is learning to construct solutions by deep neural networks …

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 …

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) …

Multi-view graph contrastive learning for solving vehicle routing problems

Y Jiang, Z Cao, Y Wu, J Zhang - Uncertainty in Artificial …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Recently, neural heuristics based on deep learning have reported encouraging results for
solving vehicle routing problems (VRPs), especially on independent and identically …

Learning to search feasible and infeasible regions of routing problems with flexible neural k-opt

Y Ma, Z Cao, YM Chee - Advances in Neural Information …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In this paper, we present Neural k-Opt (NeuOpt), a novel learning-to-search (L2S) solver for
routing problems. It learns to perform flexible k-opt exchanges based on a tailored action …

Learning generalizable models for vehicle routing problems via knowledge distillation

J Bi, Y Ma, J Wang, Z Cao, J Chen… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recent neural methods for vehicle routing problems always train and test the deep models
on the same instance distribution (ie, uniform). To tackle the consequent cross-distribution …