arXiv AI
Jul 15

Connected by Construction: Learning Tractable Near-Tour Marginals for Traveling Salesman Problems

arXiv:2607. 12127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-based methods for the traveling salesman problem (TSP) are often evaluated through the tours produced after decoding or search, but the learned object itself frequently lives in a surrogate space such as heatmaps, assignments, construction policies, or search-guidance scores.

By Ke Sun, Xinyuan Zhang, Xinwu Qian