An overview and experimental study of learning-based optimization algorithms for the vehicle routing problem

B Li, G Wu, Y He, M Fan… - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a typical discrete combinatorial optimization problem,
and many models and algorithms have been proposed to solve the VRP and its variants …

基于深度强化学习的组合优化研究进展

李凯文, 张涛, 王锐, 覃伟健, 贺惠晖, 黄鸿 - 自动化学报, 2021 - aas.net.cn
组合优化问题广泛存在于国防, 交通, 工业, 生活等各个领域, 几十年来, 传统运筹优化方法是解决
组合优化问题的主要手段, 但随着实际应用中问题规模的不断扩大, 求解实时性的要求越来越高 …

Deep reinforcement learning for transportation network combinatorial optimization: A survey

Q Wang, C Tang - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Traveling salesman and vehicle routing problems with their variants, as classic
combinatorial optimization problems, have attracted considerable attention for decades of …

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 …

Analytics and machine learning in vehicle routing research

R Bai, X Chen, ZL Chen, T Cui, S Gong… - … Journal of Production …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is one of the most intensively studied combinatorial
optimisation problems for which numerous models and algorithms have been proposed. To …

How good is neural combinatorial optimization? A systematic evaluation on the traveling salesman problem

S Liu, Y Zhang, K Tang, X Yao - IEEE Computational …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional solvers for tackling combinatorial optimization (CO) problems are usually
designed by human experts. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in utilizing deep …

Erdos goes neural: an unsupervised learning framework for combinatorial optimization on graphs

N Karalias, A Loukas - Advances in Neural Information …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Combinatorial optimization (CO) problems are notoriously challenging for neural networks,
especially in the absence of labeled instances. This work proposes an unsupervised …

Learning large neighborhood search policy for integer programming

Y Wu, W Song, Z Cao, J Zhang - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We propose a deep reinforcement learning (RL) method to learn large neighborhood search
(LNS) policy for integer programming (IP). The RL policy is trained as the destroy operator to …

Learning to solve combinatorial optimization problems on real-world graphs in linear time

I Drori, A Kharkar, WR Sickinger, B Kates… - 2020 19th IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Combinatorial optimization algorithms for graph problems are usually designed afresh for
each new problem with careful attention by an expert to the problem structure. In this work …

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 …