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In the last years, an increasing number of learning-based approaches have been proposed to tackle combinatorial optimization problems such as routing problems. Many of these approaches are based on graph neural networks (GNNs) or related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Attila Lischka , Filip Rydin , Jiaming Wu , Morteza Haghir Chehreghani , Balázs Kulcsár

Many problems in real life can be converted to combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) 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 2019-09-17 Jing Liu , Fei Gao , Jiang Zhang

We target open-world feature extrapolation problem where the feature space of input data goes through expansion and a model trained on partially observed features needs to handle new features in test data without further retraining. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Qitian Wu , Chenxiao Yang , Junchi Yan

We present a novel neural architecture to solve graph optimization problems where the solution consists of arbitrary node labels, allowing us to solve hard problems like graph coloring. We train our model using reinforcement learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Lukas Gianinazzi , Maximilian Fries , Nikoli Dryden , Tal Ben-Nun , Maciej Besta , Torsten Hoefler

End-to-end training of graph neural networks (GNN) on large graphs presents several memory and computational challenges, and limits the application to shallow architectures as depth exponentially increases the memory and space complexities.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Oscar Pina , Verónica Vilaplana

Recently, message-passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) have shown potential for solving combinatorial and continuous optimization problems due to their ability to capture variable-constraint interactions. While existing approaches leverage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Chendi Qian , Christopher Morris

In this paper we present an algorithmic framework for solving a class of combinatorial optimization problems on graphs with bounded pathwidth. The problems are NP-hard in general, but solvable in linear time on this type of graphs. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-12-18 Mugurel Ionut Andreica

Classical graph algorithms work well for combinatorial problems that can be thoroughly formalized and abstracted. Once the algorithm is derived, it generalizes to instances of any size. However, developing an algorithm that handles complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Florian Grötschla , Joël Mathys , Roger Wattenhofer

Despite the recent successes of deep neural networks in various fields such as image and speech recognition, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning, we still face big challenges in bringing the power of numeric optimization…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Fei Wang , Tiark Rompf

Graph problems such as traveling salesman problem, or finding minimal Steiner trees are widely studied and used in data engineering and computer science. Typically, in real-world applications, the features of the graph tend to change over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Udesh Gunarathna , Renata Borovica-Gajic , Shanika Karunasekara , Egemen Tanin

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have extended the success of deep neural networks (DNNs) to non-Euclidean graph data, achieving ground-breaking performance on various tasks such as node classification and graph property prediction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Tianfeng Liu , Yangrui Chen , Dan Li , Chuan Wu , Yibo Zhu , Jun He , Yanghua Peng , Hongzheng Chen , Hongzhi Chen , Chuanxiong Guo

In this paper, we explore the graph partitioning problem, a pivotal combina-torial optimization challenge with extensive applications in various fields such as science, technology, and business. Recognized as an NP-hard prob-lem, graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Vivek Chaudhary

In recent years, deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been successful in various combinatorial search domains, such as two-player games and scientific discovery. However, directly applying deep RL in planning domains is still challenging.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Dieqiao Feng , Carla P. Gomes , Bart Selman

Graph combinatorial optimization (GCO) has attracted growing interest, as many NP-hard problems naturally admit graph formulations, yet their combinatorial explosion renders exact methods computationally intractable. Recent advances in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Franco Terranova , Guillermo Bernardez , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio , Nina Miolane , Abdelkader Lahmadi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for modeling graph-structured data and have been widely used in recommender systems, such as for capturing complex user-item and item-item relations. However, most industrial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Rui Xue , Shichao Zhu , Liang Qin , Tianfu Wu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have made significant advances on several fundamental inference tasks. As a result, there is a surge of interest in using these models for making potentially important decisions in high-regret applications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Mengshu Sun , Caiwen Ding , Bhavya Kailkhura , Xue Lin

While Annealing Machines (AM) have shown increasing capabilities in solving complex combinatorial problems, positioning themselves as a more immediate alternative to the expected advances of future fully quantum solutions, there are still…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Pablo Loyola , Kento Hasegawa , Andres Hoyos-Idobro , Kazuo Ono , Toyotaro Suzumura , Yu Hirate , Masanao Yamaoka

We propose a hybrid reinforcement and self-supervised learning framework for accelerating generalized Benders decomposition (GBD). In this framework, a graph based reinforcement learning agent operates on a bipartite representation of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Bernard T. Agyeman , Zhe Li , Ilias Mitrai , Prodromos Daoutidis

Recent works on representation learning for graph structured data predominantly focus on learning distributed representations of graph substructures such as nodes and subgraphs. However, many graph analytics tasks such as graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Annamalai Narayanan , Mahinthan Chandramohan , Rajasekar Venkatesan , Lihui Chen , Yang Liu , Shantanu Jaiswal

Graph neural network (GNN) has gained increasing popularity in recent years owing to its capability and flexibility in modeling complex graph structure data. Among all graph learning methods, hypergraph learning is a technique for exploring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Tiehua Zhang , Yuze Liu , Zhishu Shen , Xingjun Ma , Peng Qi , Zhijun Ding , Jiong Jin