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Enhancing Transformer-based Routing by Encoding Distance via Relative Positional Encoding

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arXiv:2607. 18909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper explores Relative Positional Encoding (RPE) as an additive bias in Transformer architectures to solve the Team Orienteering Problem.

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