A review on learning to solve combinatorial optimisation problems in manufacturing

C Zhang, Y Wu, Y Ma, W Song, Z Le… - IET Collaborative …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
An efficient manufacturing system is key to maintaining a healthy economy today. With the
rapid development of science and technology and the progress of human society, the …

Difusco: Graph-based diffusion solvers for combinatorial optimization

Z Sun, Y Yang - Advances in Neural Information Processing …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Neural network-based Combinatorial Optimization (CO) methods have shown
promising results in solving various NP-complete (NPC) problems without relying on hand …

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 …

Neural combinatorial optimization with heavy decoder: Toward large scale generalization

F Luo, X Lin, F Liu, Q Zhang… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) is a promising learning-based approach for solving
challenging combinatorial optimization problems without specialized algorithm design by …

Dimes: A differentiable meta solver for combinatorial optimization problems

R Qiu, Z Sun, Y Yang - Advances in Neural Information …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recently, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) models have shown promising results in
solving NP-hard Combinatorial Optimization (CO) problems. However, most DRL solvers …

DeepACO: neural-enhanced ant systems for combinatorial optimization

H Ye, J Wang, Z Cao, H Liang… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a meta-heuristic algorithm that has been
successfully applied to various Combinatorial Optimization Problems (COPs). Traditionally …

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 …

Deep policy dynamic programming for vehicle routing problems

W Kool, H van Hoof, J Gromicho, M Welling - International conference on …, 2022 - Springer
Routing problems are a class of combinatorial problems with many practical applications.
Recently, end-to-end deep learning methods have been proposed to learn approximate …

Simulation-guided beam search for neural combinatorial optimization

J Choo, YD Kwon, J Kim, J Jae… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Neural approaches for combinatorial optimization (CO) equip a learning mechanism to
discover powerful heuristics for solving complex real-world problems. While neural …

Learning the travelling salesperson problem requires rethinking generalization

CK Joshi, Q Cappart, LM Rousseau… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
End-to-end training of neural network solvers for graph combinatorial optimization problems
such as the Travelling Salesperson Problem (TSP) have seen a surge of interest recently …