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
The paper introduces MEMENTO, a memory‑enhanced neural solver that improves routing problem solutions by using online data from repeated attempts to adjust action distributions during inference. It targets NP‑hard routing tasks such as the Traveling Salesman and Capacitated Vehicle Routing problems, outperforming existing tree‑search and policy‑gradient fine‑tuning methods. MEMENTO demonstrates strong scalability and data efficiency, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results on 11 of 12 evaluated tasks and enabling zero‑shot integration with diversity‑based solvers.
By Felix Chalumeau, Refiloe Shabe, Noah De Nicola, Arnu Pretorius, Thomas D. Barrett, Nathan Grinsztajn
arXiv:2509. 23413v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-task neural routing solvers have emerged as a promising paradigm for their ability to solve multiple vehicle routing problems (VRPs) using a single model.
By Changliang Zhou, Canhong Yu, Shunyu Yao, Xi Lin, Zhenkun Wang, Yu Zhou, Qingfu Zhang
arXiv:2607. 03097v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (HGNNs) have exhibited remarkable efficacy in modeling complex systems with multiple types of nodes and relations, yet their training on large-scale heterogeneous graphs remains computationally prohibitive.
By Fuyan Ou, Yulin Hu, Ye Yuan
arXiv:2602. 23092v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP), a fundamental combinatorial optimization challenge, focuses on optimizing fleet operations under vehicle capacity constraints.
By Zhuoliang Xie, Fei Liu, Zhenkun Wang, Qingfu Zhang
arXiv:2607. 22356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, the growing complexity of last-mile pickup operations has increased the need for fast and accurate decision-making on logistics platforms.
By Yida Xu, Zhaofang Mao, Yuheng Miao, Jiaxin Zhang, Yiting Sun
The paper presents an end‑to‑end framework that uses constraint‑oriented hypergraphs and reinforcement learning to solve vehicle routing problems. It introduces a dynamic hyperedge reconstruction strategy for better hypergraph representation and a double‑pointer attention decoder for iterative solution generation. Experiments on benchmark datasets show that the method removes the need for complex heuristic operators while improving solution quality.
By Zhenwei Wang, Tiehua Zhang, Jing Liu, Heng Yu, Kaizhu Huang, Ruibin Bai
arXiv:2501. 17377v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has emerged as a promising approach for solving Combinatorial Optimization (CO) problems, such as the 3D Bin Packing Problem (3D-BPP), Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), or Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), but these neural solvers often exhibit brittleness when facing distribution shifts.
By Han Fang, Paul Weng, Yutong Ban
arXiv:2606. 01666v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The scaling of Large Language Models (LLMs) has driven significant performance gains but created substantial challenges in inference efficiency.
By Udbhav Bamba, Arnav Chavan, Aryamaan Thakur, Steve Teig, Deepak Gupta
arXiv:2601. 06487v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning has substantially improved the performance of LLM agents on tasks with verifiable outcomes, but it still struggles on open-ended agent tasks with vast solution spaces (e.
By Qiang Zhang, Boli Chen, Fanrui Zhang, Ruixue Ding, Shihang Wang, Qiuchen Wang, Yinfeng Huang, Haonan Zhang, Rongxiang Zhu, Pengyong Wang, Ailin Ren, Xin Li, Pengjun Xie, Jiawei Liu, Ning Guo, Jingren Zhou, Zheng-Jun Zha
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
The maximum independent set (MIS) problem is a fundamental NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with applications in scheduling, resource allocation, and network analysis. Exact solvers can prov...