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Understanding Human-like Solutions in Combinatorial Optimization via Learning and Search

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arXiv:2607. 23854v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans often find good solutions to combinatorial optimization problems that are computationally hard even for advanced computer algorithms.

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