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:2311. 02629v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce the Pointer Q-Network (PQN), a hybrid neural architecture that integrates model-free Q-value policy approximation with Pointer Networks (Ptr-Nets) to enhance the optimality of attention-based sequence generation, focusing on long-term outcomes.
By Alessandro Barro
arXiv:2601. 13465v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graph neural networks are usually treated as auxiliaries for combinatorial optimization: they imitate algorithms, guide search, or supply scores to classical procedures.
By Yimeng Min, Carla P. Gomes
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:2606. 18514v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) offers a promising alternative to traditional heuristic-based methods for solving complex graph optimization problems by proposing to learn heuristics through data.
By Anas Saeed, Marcos Abel Zuzu\'arregui, Stefano Carpin
arXiv:2602. 07216v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) trains fast heuristics for routing problems, but planners often need more than a single solve: they ask which stop to drop, which transition to preserve, or which subset of stops to remove if a route is infeasible.
By Reuben Narad, L\'eonard Boussioux, Michael Wagner