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We study a new version of the Traveling Salesperson Problem, called \VectorTSP, where the traveler is subject to discrete acceleration constraints, as defined in the paper-and-pencil game Racetrack (also known as Vector Racer). In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Arnaud Casteigts , Mathieu Raffinot , Mikhail Raskin , Jason Schoeters

This paper introduces CARSS (Cooperative Attention-guided Reinforcement Subpath Synthesis), a novel approach to address the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) by leveraging cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). CARSS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yuchen Shi , Congying Han , Tiande Guo

Traveling salesman problems (TSP) are one of the well-known combinatorial optimization problems that many groups tackle to solve. This problem appears in many types of combinational optimization, such as scheduling, route optimization, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Hikaru Wakaura

We propose ScheduleNet, a RL-based real-time scheduler, that can solve various types of multi-agent scheduling problems. We formulate these problems as a semi-MDP with episodic reward (makespan) and learn ScheduleNet, a decentralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Junyoung Park , Sanjar Bakhtiyar , Jinkyoo Park

Recently, a deep reinforcement learning method is proposed to solve multiobjective optimization problem. In this method, the multiobjective optimization problem is decomposed to a number of single-objective optimization subproblems and all…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Hong Wu , Jiahai Wang , Zizhen Zhang

We present a polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) for the min-max multiple TSP problem in Euclidean space, where multiple traveling salesmen are tasked with visiting a set of $n$ points and the objective is to minimize the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Mary Monroe , David M. Mount

Multi Scale Deformable Attention (MSDAttn) has become a fundamental component in various vision tasks due to its effective multi scale grid sampling (MSGS). However, its reliance on random sampling results in highly irregular memory access…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Huize Li , Qinggang Wang , Bing Gao , Dan Chen , Yu Huang , Xin Xin

In this work, we consider the problem of finding a set of tours to a traveling salesperson problem (TSP) instance maximizing diversity, while satisfying a given cost constraint. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of applying…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Anh Viet Do , Mingyu Guo , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

The traveling salesman (or salesperson) problem, short TSP, is a problem of strong interest to many researchers from mathematics, economics, and computer science. Manifold TSP variants occur in nearly every scientific field and application…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Sophia Saller , Jana Koehler , Andreas Karrenbauer

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a well-known combinatorial optimization problem with broad real-world applications. Recent advancements in neural network-based TSP solvers have shown promising results. Nonetheless, these models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yubin Xiao , Di Wang , Rui Cao , Xuan Wu , Boyang Li , You Zhou

Missions for autonomous systems often require agents to visit multiple targets in complex operating conditions. This work considers the problem of visiting a set of targets in minimum time by a team of non-communicating agents in a Markov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Farhad Nawaz , Melkior Ornik

In this paper, we develop and present a novel strategy for safe coordination of a large-scale multi-agent team with ``\textit{local deformation}" capabilities. Multi-agent coordination is defined by our proposed method as a multi-layer…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Harshvardhan Uppaluru , Hossein Rastgoftar

We introduce a fast, quasi-linear-time heuristic for the Close-Enough Traveling Salesman Problem (CETSP), a continuous generalization of the Euclidean TSP in which each target is a disk that must be intersected. The method adapts the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Khoi Duong

This paper investigates the multi-agent cooperative exploration problem, which requires multiple agents to explore an unseen environment via sensory signals in a limited time. A popular approach to exploration tasks is to combine active…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Xinyi Yang , Yuxiang Yang , Chao Yu , Jiayu Chen , Jingchen Yu , Haibing Ren , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

The Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem (GTSP) is an extension of the well-known Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), where the node set is partitioned into clusters, and the objective is to find the shortest cycle visiting each cluster…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-06 Mohammad Reihaneh , Daniel Karapetyan

In this work we revisit the Hopfield-Tank algorithm for the traveling salesman problem (TSP) and report encouraging results, with a different dynamics, that makes the algorithm more efficient finding better solutions in much less…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Argollo de Menezes , T. J. P. Penna

We introduce a new bounding approach called Continuity* C*, which provides optimality guarantees for the Moving-Target Traveling Salesman Problem (MT-TSP). Our approach relaxes the continuity constraints on the agent's tour by partitioning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Allen George Philip , Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

The Travelling Salesman Problem - TSP is one of the most explored problems in the scientific literature to solve real problems regarding the economy, transportation, and logistics, to cite a few cases. Adapting TSP to solve different…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Carlos Alberto da Silva Junior , Roberto Yuji Tanaka , Luiz Carlos Farias da Silva , Angelo Passaro

Reinforcement learning algorithms require a large amount of samples; this often limits their real-world applications on even simple tasks. Such a challenge is more outstanding in multi-agent tasks, as each step of operation is more costly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Yali Du , Chengdong Ma , Yuchen Liu , Runji Lin , Hao Dong , Jun Wang , Yaodong Yang

Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is one of the most common studied problems in combinatorial optimization. Given the list of cities and distances between them, the problem is to find the shortest tour possible which visits all the cities in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-27 Harun Rasit Er , Nadia Erdogan