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 …

A hybrid adaptive iterated local search with diversification control to the capacitated vehicle routing problem

VR Máximo, MCV Nascimento - European Journal of Operational Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Metaheuristics are widely employed to solve hard optimization problems, like vehicle routing
problems (VRP), for which exact solution methods are impractical. In particular, local search …

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 …

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 …

A reinforcement learning-variable neighborhood search method for the capacitated vehicle routing problem

P Kalatzantonakis, A Sifaleras, N Samaras - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
Finding the best sequence of local search operators that yields the optimal performance of
Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) is an important open research question in the field of …

Constrained clustering for the capacitated vehicle routing problem (cc-cvrp)

F Alesiani, G Ermis, K Gkiotsalitis - Applied artificial intelligence, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT eCommerce, postal and logistics' planners require to solve large-scale
capacitated vehicle routing problems (CVRPs) on a daily basis. CVRP problems are NP …

Hybrid genetic search for the CVRP: Open-source implementation and SWAP* neighborhood

T Vidal - Computers & Operations Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The vehicle routing problem is one of the most studied combinatorial optimization topics,
due to its practical importance and methodological interest. Yet, despite extensive …

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 …

A robust algorithm based on differential evolution with local search for the capacitated vehicle routing problem

IP Souza, MCS Boeres, REN Moraes - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem is a well-known combinatorial problem.
In this paper, we propose a hybrid algorithm based on a discrete adaptation of the …