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Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have emerged as a popular and standard approach for learning from graph-structured data. The literature on GNN highlights the potential of this evolving research area and its widespread adoption in real-life…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Sukhdeep Singh , Anuj Sharma , Vinod Kumar Chauhan

Recent papers on approximation algorithms for the traveling salesman problem (TSP) have given a new variant on the well-known Christofides' algorithm for the TSP, called the Best-of-Many Christofides' algorithm. The algorithm involves…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Kyle Genova , David P. Williamson

How to properly model graphs is a long-existing and important problem in NLP area, where several popular types of graphs are knowledge graphs, semantic graphs and dependency graphs. Comparing with other data structures, such as sequences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Linfeng Song

We give improved approximations for two metric Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) variants. In Ordered TSP (OTSP) we are given a linear ordering on a subset of nodes $o_1, \ldots, o_k$. The TSP solution must have that $o_{i+1}$ is visited at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Martin Böhm , Zachary Friggstad , Tobias Mömke , Joachim Spoerhase

The Lin-Kernighan heuristic is known to be one of the most successful heuristics for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). It has also proven its efficiency in application to some other problems. In this paper we discuss possible…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-02-15 Daniel Karapetyan , Gregory Gutin

The Traveling Thief Problem (TTP) is a multi-component optimization problem that captures the interplay between routing and packing decisions by combining the classical Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP) and the Knapsack Problem (KP). The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jan Eube , Kelin Luo , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann , Heiko Röglin

Modeling generative process of growing graphs has wide applications in social networks and recommendation systems, where cold start problem leads to new nodes isolated from existing graph. Despite the emerging literature in learning graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Da Xu , Chuanwei Ruan , Kamiya Motwani , Evren Korpeoglu , Sushant Kumar , Kannan Achan

The paper presents an O^*(1.2312^n)-time and polynomial-space algorithm for the traveling salesman problem in an n-vertex graph with maximum degree 3. This improves the previous time bounds of O^*(1.251^n) by Iwama and Nakashima and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Mingyu Xiao , Hiroshi Nagamochi

The traveling salesman problem (TSP) is a fundamental NP-hard optimization problem. Over the past decades, traditional heuristic methods have achieved substantial success in solving TSP, yet their performance, particularly for large-scale…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Haoze Lv , Wenjie Chen , Zhiyuan Wang , Shengcai Liu

Traditional Graph Self-Supervised Learning (GSSL) struggles to capture complex structural properties well. This limitation stems from two main factors: (1) the inadequacy of conventional Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in representing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Asiri Wijesinghe , Hao Zhu , Piotr Koniusz

The network embedding problem that maps nodes in a graph to vectors in Euclidean space can be very useful for addressing several important tasks on a graph. Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been proposed for solving such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Ping-En Lu , Cheng-Shang Chang

This paper explores a variation of the Traveling Salesperson Problem, where the agent places a circular obstacle next to each node once it visits it. Referred to as the Traveling Salesperson Problem with Circle Placement (TSP-CP), the aim…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-16 David Woller , Masoumeh Mansouri , Miroslav Kulich

Severe weather events can cause extensive damage to electrical distribution networks, requiring a multi-day restoration effort. Optimizing the dispatch of repair crews minimizes the severe socio-economic consequences of such events.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Ran Wei , Arindam K. Das , Payman Arabshahi , Daniel S. Kirschen

The Covering Salesman Problem (CSP) is a generalization of the Traveling Salesman Problem in which the tour is not required to visit all vertices, as long as all vertices are covered by the tour. The objective of CSP is to find a minimum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Lucas Porto Maziero , Fábio Luiz Usberti , Celso Cavellucci

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are popular to use for classifying structured data in the context of machine learning. But surprisingly, they are rarely applied to regression problems. In this work, we adopt GNN for a classic but challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Wenzhong Yan , Di Jin , Zhidi Lin , Feng Yin

Graph transformer networks (GTN) are a variant of graph convolutional networks (GCN) that are targeted to heterogeneous graphs in which nodes and edges have associated type information that can be exploited to improve inference accuracy.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Loc Hoang , Udit Agarwal , Gurbinder Gill , Roshan Dathathri , Abhik Seal , Brian Martin , Keshav Pingali

Graph similarity learning (GSL), also referred to as graph matching in many scenarios, is a fundamental problem in computer vision, pattern recognition, and graph learning. However, previous GSL methods assume that graphs are homogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Shilong Sang , Ke-Jia Chen , Zheng liu

Accurate traffic forecasting, the foundation of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), has never been more significant than nowadays due to the prosperity of smart cities and urban computing. Recently, Graph Neural Network truly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Jiabin Tang , Tang Qian , Shijing Liu , Shengdong Du , Jie Hu , Tianrui Li

Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is one of the unsolved problems in computer science. TSP is NP Hard. Till now the best approximation ratio found for symmetric TSP is three by two by Christofides Algorithm more than forty years ago. There…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Alok Chauhan , Madhusudan Verma

The moving target traveling salesman problem with obstacles (MT-TSP-O) is a generalization of the traveling salesman problem (TSP) where, as its name suggests, the targets are moving. A solution to the MT-TSP-O is a trajectory that visits…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Anoop Bhat , Geordan Gutow , Bhaskar Vundurthy , Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset