arXiv Machine Learning

GATNextHop: A GAT for Shortest Path Routing with Cross-Topology Generalization

arXiv Machine Learning
5d ago

Traffic Engineering in Large-scale Networks with Generalizable Graph Neural Networks

The paper introduces TELGEN, a traffic engineering algorithm that uses graph neural networks to predict an optimal TE algorithm rather than a direct solution. TELGEN generalizes across diverse network topologies and traffic patterns, achieving less than a 3% optimality gap on networks up to 5,000 nodes and 3.6 million links, while reducing solving time by up to 84% and training time by up to 79.6% compared to existing methods.

By Fangtong Zhou, Xiaorui Liu, Ruozhou Yu, Guoliang Xue
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Graph Neural Networks are Heuristics

arXiv:2601. 13465v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graph neural networks are usually treated as auxiliaries for combinatorial optimization: they imitate algorithms, guide search, or supply scores to classical procedures.

By Yimeng Min, Carla P. Gomes
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

OD-Gear: Online Decomposition and Group Sampling for Expert-Guided Adversarial Routing in Scalable Capacitated Vehicle Routing

arXiv:2602. 00488v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Solving large-scale capacitated vehicle routing problems (CVRP) is hindered by the high complexity of classical heuristics and the limited generalization of neural solvers.

By Dongbin Jiao, Zisheng Chen, Xianyi Wang, Jintao Shi, Shengcai Liu, Shi Yan
arXiv AI
5d ago

Customizable and Jointly Optimized Route Planning: A Deep Architecture Enabling Differentiable Shortest-Path Search

The paper introduces a deep architecture that jointly optimizes cost functions and a route-ranking model to accommodate diverse user preferences in route planning. It first generates a complete set of Pareto‑optimal routes using a multi‑objective Dijkstra algorithm, then employs a neural network that emulates shortest‑path search and ranking in an end‑to‑end differentiable framework. A novel loss function treats route preference as a constrained optimization problem, allowing a single objective to be optimized while other attributes remain constrained, and experiments on real‑world data show significant improvements over existing methods.

By Rui Zhao, Chao Chen, Longfei Xu, Chenguang Ji, Hengbin Cui, Kaikui Liu, Xiaolong Li