Voronoi diagrams—a survey of a fundamental geometric data structure

F Aurenhammer - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 1991 - dl.acm.org
Computational geometry is concerned with the design and analysis of algorithms for
geometrical problems. In addition, other more practically oriented, areas of computer …

Survey paper—time window constrained routing and scheduling problems

MM Solomon, J Desrosiers - Transportation science, 1988 - pubsonline.informs.org
We have witnessed recently the development of a fast growing body of research focused on
vehicle routing and scheduling problem structures with time window constraints. It is the aim …

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 …

An efficient graph convolutional network technique for the travelling salesman problem

CK Joshi, T Laurent, X Bresson - arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.01227, 2019 - arxiv.org
This paper introduces a new learning-based approach for approximately solving the
Travelling Salesman Problem on 2D Euclidean graphs. We use deep Graph Convolutional …

Neural combinatorial optimization with reinforcement learning

I Bello, H Pham, QV Le, M Norouzi, S Bengio - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a framework to tackle combinatorial optimization problems using neural
networks and reinforcement learning. We focus on the traveling salesman problem (TSP) …

Decentralized training of foundation models in heterogeneous environments

B Yuan, Y He, J Davis, T Zhang… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Training foundation models, such as GPT-3 and PaLM, can be extremely expensive, often
involving tens of thousands of GPUs running continuously for months. These models are …

Learning collaborative policies to solve np-hard routing problems

M Kim, J Park - Advances in Neural Information …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recently, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) frameworks have shown potential for solving
NP-hard routing problems such as the traveling salesman problem (TSP) without problem …

Combinatorial optimization by graph pointer networks and hierarchical reinforcement learning

Q Ma, S Ge, D He, D Thaker, I Drori - arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.04936, 2019 - arxiv.org
In this work, we introduce Graph Pointer Networks (GPNs) trained using reinforcement
learning (RL) for tackling the traveling salesman problem (TSP). GPNs build upon Pointer …

Exploratory combinatorial optimization with reinforcement learning

T Barrett, W Clements, J Foerster, A Lvovsky - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2020 - aaai.org
Many real-world problems can be reduced to combinatorial optimization on a graph, where
the subset or ordering of vertices that maximize some objective function must be found. With …

Interactive machine learning: experimental evidence for the human in the algorithmic loop: A case study on Ant Colony Optimization

A Holzinger, M Plass, M Kickmeier-Rust, K Holzinger… - Applied …, 2019 - Springer
Recent advances in automatic machine learning (aML) allow solving problems without any
human intervention. However, sometimes a human-in-the-loop can be beneficial in solving …