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 …

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 …

Neural combinatorial optimization with heavy decoder: Toward large scale generalization

F Luo, X Lin, F Liu, Q Zhang… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) is a promising learning-based approach for solving
challenging combinatorial optimization problems without specialized algorithm design by …

Flexible job-shop scheduling via graph neural network and deep reinforcement learning

W Song, X Chen, Q Li, Z Cao - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been applied to learn priority dispatching
rules (PDRs) for solving complex scheduling problems. However, the existing works face …

Neurolkh: Combining deep learning model with lin-kernighan-helsgaun heuristic for solving the traveling salesman problem

L Xin, W Song, Z Cao, J Zhang - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We present NeuroLKH, a novel algorithm that combines deep learning with the strong
traditional heuristic Lin-Kernighan-Helsgaun (LKH) for solving Traveling Salesman Problem …

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 …

Reinforcement learning for solving the vehicle routing problem

M Nazari, A Oroojlooy, L Snyder… - Advances in neural …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We present an end-to-end framework for solving the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) using
reinforcement learning. In this approach, we train a single policy model that finds near …

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 …

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) …

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 …