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Along with AI computing shining in scientific discovery, its potential in the combinatorial optimization (CO) domain has also emerged in recent years. Yet, existing unsupervised neural network solvers struggle to solve $k$-grouping problems…

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Recently, there has been much work on the design of general heuristics for graph-based, combinatorial optimization problems via the incorporation of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to learn distribution-specific solution structures.However,…

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We present a learning-based approach to computing solutions for certain NP-hard problems. Our approach combines deep learning techniques with useful algorithmic elements from classic heuristics. The central component is a graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Zhuwen Li , Qifeng Chen , Vladlen Koltun

Many combinatorial optimization problems can be phrased in the language of constraint satisfaction problems. We introduce a graph neural network architecture for solving such optimization problems. The architecture is generic; it works for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Jan Toenshoff , Martin Ritzert , Hinrikus Wolf , Martin Grohe

Large scale graph optimization problems arise in many fields. This paper presents an extensible, high performance framework (named OpenGraphGym-MG) that uses deep reinforcement learning and graph embedding to solve large graph optimization…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Weijian Zheng , Dali Wang , Fengguang Song

Using machine learning to solve combinatorial optimization (CO) problems is challenging, especially when the data is unlabeled. This work proposes an unsupervised learning framework for CO problems. Our framework follows a standard…

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Navigating heterogeneous traffic environments with diverse driving styles poses a significant challenge for autonomous vehicles (AVs) due to their inherent complexity and dynamic interactions. This paper addresses this challenge by…

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Mastering games is a hard task, as games can be extremely complex, and still fundamentally different in structure from one another. While the AlphaZero algorithm has demonstrated an impressive ability to learn the rules and strategy of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Tomas Rigaux , Hisashi Kashima

Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) is a generic technique to model various NP-hard Combinatorial Optimization problems (CO) in the form of binary variables. Ising Hamiltonian is used to model the energy function of a system.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Redwan Ahmed Rizvee , Raheeb Hassan , Md. Mosaddek Khan

The hardness of combinatorial optimization (CO) problems hinders collecting solutions for supervised learning. However, learning neural networks for CO problems is notoriously difficult in lack of the labeled data as the training is easily…

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Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) is a generic technique to model various NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems in the form of binary variables. The Hamiltonian function is often used to formulate QUBO problems where…

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Most compilers for machine learning (ML) frameworks need to solve many correlated optimization problems to generate efficient machine code. Current ML compilers rely on heuristics based algorithms to solve these optimization problems one at…

Combinatorial optimization problems are notoriously challenging for neural networks, especially in the absence of labeled instances. This work proposes an unsupervised learning framework for CO problems on graphs that can provide integral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Nikolaos Karalias , Andreas Loukas

We investigate a link between Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems, laying the groundwork for GNNs to approximate solutions for these computationally challenging tasks. By analyzing…

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There has been an increased interest in discovering heuristics for combinatorial problems on graphs through machine learning. While existing techniques have primarily focused on obtaining high-quality solutions, scalability to billion-sized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Sahil Manchanda , Akash Mittal , Anuj Dhawan , Sourav Medya , Sayan Ranu , Ambuj Singh

Algorithm learning is a core problem in artificial intelligence with significant implications on automation level that can be achieved by machines. Recently deep learning methods are emerging for synthesizing an algorithm from its…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Karlis Freivalds , Renars Liepins

We study provably effective and efficient data reduction for a class of NP-hard graph modification problems based on vertex degree properties. We show fixed-parameter tractability for NP-hard graph completion (that is, edge addition) cases…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Vincent Froese , André Nichterlein , Rolf Niedermeier

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved great success for a variety of tasks such as node classification, graph classification, and link prediction. However, the use of GNNs (and machine learning more generally) to solve combinatorial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Frederik Wenkel , Semih Cantürk , Stefan Horoi , Michael Perlmutter , Guy Wolf

In computer science, there exist a large number of optimization problems defined on graphs, that is to find a best node state configuration or a network structure such that the designed objective function is optimized under some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Yaoxin Li , Jing Liu , Guozheng Lin , Yueyuan Hou , Muyun Mou , Jiang Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the backbone for a myriad of tasks pertaining to graphs and similar topological data structures. While many works have been established in domains related to node and graph classification/regression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Appan Rakaraddi , Siew Kei Lam , Mahardhika Pratama , Marcus De Carvalho