arXiv:2609.25149v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Solving large-scale instances of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) exactly is computationally expensive. Researchers often employ graph sparsificati...
By Tianfeng Chen, Xianyue Li
arXiv:2606. 19185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a cornerstone of combinatorial optimization and arises in many practical scenarios.
By Bolin Shen, Ziwei Huang, Zhiguang Cao, Yushun Dong
arXiv:2607. 19072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces a self-supervised pretraining framework for graph combinatorial optimization specifically designed to address the nature of routing problems like the Traveling Salesman Problem.
By David Aguado, Daniel Fuertes, Carlos R. del-Blanco, Fernando Jaureguizar
arXiv:2607. 18632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated Algorithm Selection (AS) aims to improve problem-solving performance by selecting, for each problem instance, the most suitable algorithm from a predefined portfolio.
By Zhaoxuan Li, Jiale Yang, Yifei Lu, Mustafa Misir
Automated Algorithm Selection (AS) aims to improve problem-solving performance by selecting, for each problem instance, the most suitable algorithm from a predefined portfolio. This is particularly relevant to the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), where solver performance is strongly instance-dependent.
arXiv:2603. 06952v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As graphs scale to billions of nodes and edges, graph Machine Learning workloads are constrained by the cost of multi-hop traversals over exponentially growing neighborhoods.
By Yuhang Song, Naima Abrar Shami, Romaric Duvignau, Vasiliki Kalavri
arXiv:2606. 01987v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We show that the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) can be reformulated as a Graph Edit Distance (GED) maximization problem.
By Adel Dabah
arXiv:2606. 22776v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Non-autoregressive neural solvers amortize computation across traveling salesman problem (TSP) instances, but models trained on random Euclidean instances can degrade when the number or spatial distribution of nodes changes.
By Xiang Li
arXiv:2503. 03137v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Constructive neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) offers a promising paradigm for solving vehicle routing problems (VRPs) by directly learning to construct approximate optimal solutions, thereby reducing reliance on expert knowledge for algorithm design.
By Changliang Zhou, Xi Lin, Zhenkun Wang, Qingfu Zhang
arXiv:2608. 00270v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neural Combinatorial Optimization (NCO) techniques have emerged as a highly efficient alternative to traditional exact algorithms for solving routing problems such as the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP).
By David Aguado, Daniel Fuertes, Carlos R. del-Blanco, Fernando Jaureguizar
arXiv:2608. 13333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large neighborhood search normally selects a random subset of decision variables for iterative optimization.
By Hai Xia, Vaidyanathan Peruvemba Ramaswamy, Stefan Szeider
COMPASS is a new algorithm for the Ordered Clustered Traveling Salesman Problem (OCTSP) that combines search with learning‑accelerated routing by orchestrating parallel sub‑solvers. It exploits the clustered structure to achieve exact solutions in time exponential in cluster size rather than instance size, and its solutions improve continuously with more compute. Empirically, COMPASS outperforms existing methods and scales to 100K synthetic nodes and 28.5K real e‑commerce nodes, representing the largest reported routing solution over asymmetric distances—9× beyond established ATSP benchmarks.