Neural Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems: A Comprehensive Survey with Perspectives

X Wu, D Wang, L Wen, Y Xiao, C Wu, Y Wu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Although several surveys on Neural Combinatorial Optimization (NCO) solvers specifically
designed to solve Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs) have been conducted. These existing …

Machine learning to solve vehicle routing problems: A survey

A Bogyrbayeva, M Meraliyev… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper provides a systematic overview of machine learning methods applied to solve NP-
hard Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs). Recently, there has been great interest from both …

Learning for multiple purposes: A Q-learning enhanced hybrid metaheuristic for parallel drone scheduling traveling salesman problem

P Chen, Q Wang - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, combining the artificial intelligence techniques with traditional operations
research approaches for solving combinatorial optimization problems is an interesting issue …

A strategy based on wave swarm for the formation task inspired by the traveling salesman problem

RD Lamperti, LVR de Arruda - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Multi-robots can perform complex tasks such as exploration, foraging, and formation.
Efficient communication between robots can contribute to the accomplishment of collective …

A new method for improving the fairness of multi-robot task allocation by balancing the distribution of tasks

Y Msala, O Hamed, M Talea… - Journal of Robotics and …, 2023 - journal.umy.ac.id
This paper presents an innovative task allocation method for multi-robot systems that aims to
optimize task distribution while taking into account various performance metrics such as …

Reinforcement learning for the traveling salesman problem: Performance comparison of three algorithms

J Wang, C Xiao, S Wang, Y Ruan - The Journal of Engineering, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Travelling salesman problem (TSP) is one of the most famous problems in graph theory, as
well as one of the typical nondeterministic polynomial time (NP)‐hard problems in …

Learning-based simulated annealing algorithm for unequal area facility layout problem

J Lin, A Shen, L Wu, Y Zhong - Soft Computing, 2024 - Springer
This paper proposes a learning-based simulated annealing (LSA) algorithm to tackle the NP-
hard unequal area facility layout problem (UA-FLP). The goal of UA-FLP is to optimize the …

Looking Ahead to Avoid Being Late: Solving Hard-Constrained Traveling Salesman Problem

J Chen, Z Gong, M Liu, J Wang, Y Yu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Many real-world problems can be formulated as a constrained Traveling Salesman Problem
(TSP). However, the constraints are always complex and numerous, making the TSPs …

A Scalable and Adaptable Supervised Learning Approach for Solving the Traveling Salesman Problems

Z Lyu, MZ Islam, AJ Yu - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a well-known combinatorial optimization problem
that has attracted extensive research efforts in developing exact methods and heuristics …

NeuralGLS: learning to guide local search with graph convolutional network for the traveling salesman problem

J Sui, S Ding, B Xia, R Liu, D Bu - Neural Computing and Applications, 2024 - Springer
The traveling salesman problem (TSP) aims to find the shortest tour that visits each node of
a given graph exactly once. TSPs have significant importance as numerous practical …