arXiv:2602.13106v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: In recent years, there has been growing interest in understanding neural architectures' ability to learn to execute discrete algorithms, a li...
By Solveig Wittig, Antonis Vasileiou, Robert R. Nerem, Timo Stoll, Floris Geerts, Yusu Wang, Christopher Morris
arXiv:2601. 23207v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding what graph neural networks can learn, especially their ability to learn to execute algorithms, remains a central theoretical challenge.
By Muhammad Fetrat Qharabagh, Artur Back de Luca, George Giapitzakis, Kimon Fountoulakis
arXiv:2605. 09382v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Linear Assignment Problem is a fundamental combinatorial optimization task where classical exact solvers ensure optimality but suffer from an $\mathcal{O}(N^{3})$ bottleneck, while recent neural approximations struggle with scalability and exactness.
By Ilay Yavlovich, Jad Agbaria, Muhamed Mhamed, Nir Weinberger, Jose Yallouz
arXiv:2508. 08005v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Maximum Clique Problem (MCP) is an NP-hard problem with wide-ranging applications in fields such as bioinformatics, network science, and social computing, yet no single algorithm consistently outperforms all others across diverse graph instances.
By Xiang Li, Shanshan Wang, Chenglong Xiao
arXiv:2509. 18930v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Neural algorithmic reasoning (NAR) is a paradigm that trains neural networks to execute classic algorithms by supervised learning.
By Alex Schutz, Victor-Alexandru Darvariu, Efimia Panagiotaki, Bruno Lacerda, Nick Hawes
The paper introduces SHSP, a Structure-Aware Hierarchical Solution Prediction framework for Mixed-Integer Linear Programming. SHSP replaces one-shot marginal decoding with a hierarchical conditional decoding that sequentially predicts variables based on a coupling graph derived from constraints, and includes a confidence-aware mask-and-repair step to correct errors. Experiments on four MILP benchmarks show SHSP reduces the solution gap by an average of 54% compared to existing one-shot methods.
By Zherong Zhang, Guanlin Li, Chengrui Gao, Haopu Shang, Ke Xue, Jixiang Lu, Weiyong Yang, Chao Qian
Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) is a fundamental optimization paradigm in combinatorial optimization and has been widely applied across real-world domains. Due to its NP-hard nature, obtaining...
arXiv:2512. 01113v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Algorithmic reasoning -- the ability to perform step-by-step logical inference -- is a synthetic benchmark for evaluating multi-step reasoning abilities, designed for graph neural networks and also for transformer models.
By Dongyue Li, Zhenshuo Zhang, Minxuan Duan, Edgar Dobriban, Hongyang R. Zhang
arXiv:2603. 02462v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A key challenge in developing unified neural solvers for combinatorial optimization (CO) is the efficient generalization of models from a given set of tasks to new tasks unseen during initial training.
By Semih Cant\"urk, Thomas Sabourin, Frederik Wenkel, Michael Perlmutter, Guy Wolf
arXiv:2509. 24256v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The pretrain-transfer paradigm, which underpins the success of large language models (LLMs), has demonstrated the immense power of creating foundation models that learn generalizable representations from vast datasets.
By Yunhao Liang, Pujun Zhang, Yuan Qu, Jingyuan Yang, Shaochong Lin, Zuo-jun Max Shen
arXiv:2601. 16510v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Solving massive-scale optimization problems requires scalable first-order methods with low per-iteration cost.
By Liping Tao, Xindi Tong, Chee Wei Tan
arXiv:2607. 22467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data scarcity poses a fundamental challenge in training generative models to produce initial guesses for parametric optimization problems that are otherwise numerically expensive to solve.
By Anjian Li, Ryne Beeson