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Neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) has gained significant attention due to the potential of deep learning to efficiently solve combinatorial optimization problems. NCO has been widely applied to job shop scheduling problems (JSPs) with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Igor G. Smit , Yaoxin Wu , Pavel Troubil , Yingqian Zhang , Wim P. M. Nuijten

We consider the problem of deep neural net compression by quantization: given a large, reference net, we want to quantize its real-valued weights using a codebook with $K$ entries so that the training loss of the quantized net is minimal.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán , Yerlan Idelbayev

Neural Algorithmic Reasoning is an emerging area of machine learning which seeks to infuse algorithmic computation in neural networks, typically by training neural models to approximate steps of classical algorithms. In this context, much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Danilo Numeroso , Davide Bacciu , Petar Veličković

Neural approaches for combinatorial optimization (CO) equip a learning mechanism to discover powerful heuristics for solving complex real-world problems. While neural approaches capable of high-quality solutions in a single shot are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Jinho Choo , Yeong-Dae Kwon , Jihoon Kim , Jeongwoo Jae , André Hottung , Kevin Tierney , Youngjune Gwon

The paper briefly describes a basic set of special combinatorial engineering frameworks for solving complex problems in the field of hierarchical modular systems. The frameworks consist of combinatorial problems (and corresponding models),…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-02 Mark Sh. Levin

Recent years have seen a significant surge in complex AI systems for competitive programming, capable of performing at admirable levels against human competitors. While steady progress has been made, the highest percentiles still remain out…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Petar Veličković , Alex Vitvitskyi , Larisa Markeeva , Borja Ibarz , Lars Buesing , Matej Balog , Alexander Novikov

Recent neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) methods have shown promising problem-solving ability without requiring domain-specific expertise. Most existing NCO methods use training and testing data with a fixed constraint value and lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Fu Luo , Yaoxin Wu , Zhi Zheng , Zhenkun Wang

Designing recommendation systems with limited or no available training data remains a challenge. To that end, a new combinatorial optimization problem is formulated to generate optimized item selection for experimentation with the goal to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Bernard Kleynhans , Xin Wang , Serdar Kadıoğlu

Solving optimization problems with parallel algorithms has a long tradition in OR. Its future relevance for solving hard optimization problems in many fields, including finance, logistics, production and design, is leveraged through the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Guido Schryen

Integrating combinatorial optimization layers into neural networks has recently attracted significant research interest. However, many existing approaches lack theoretical guarantees or fail to perform adequately when relying on inexact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Germain Vivier-Ardisson , Mathieu Blondel , Axel Parmentier

Algorithms for continuous optimization problems have a rich history of design and innovation over the past several decades, in which mathematical analysis of their convergence and complexity properties plays a central role. Besides their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Stephen J. Wright

Decision-making problems can be modeled as combinatorial optimization problems with Constraint Programming formalisms such as Constrained Optimization Problems. However, few Constraint Programming formalisms can deal with both optimization…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Valentin Antuori , Florian Richoux

Reinforcement learning systems require good representations to work well. For decades practical success in reinforcement learning was limited to small domains. Deep reinforcement learning systems, on the other hand, are scalable, not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Sina Ghiassian , Banafsheh Rafiee , Yat Long Lo , Adam White

Many real-world problems can be reduced to combinatorial optimization on a graph, where the subset or ordering of vertices that maximize some objective function must be found. With such tasks often NP-hard and analytically intractable,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Thomas D. Barrett , William R. Clements , Jakob N. Foerster , A. I. Lvovsky

Combinatorial optimization lies at the core of many real-world problems. Especially since the rise of graph neural networks (GNNs), the deep learning community has been developing solvers that derive solutions to NP-hard problems by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Maximilian Böther , Otto Kißig , Martin Taraz , Sarel Cohen , Karen Seidel , Tobias Friedrich

Traditional maximum entropy and sparsity-based algorithms for analytic continuation often suffer from the ill-posed kernel matrix or demand tremendous computation time for parameter tuning. Here we propose a neural network method by convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Dongchen Huang , Yi-feng Yang

Neural compression is the application of neural networks and other machine learning methods to data compression. Recent advances in statistical machine learning have opened up new possibilities for data compression, allowing compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yibo Yang , Stephan Mandt , Lucas Theis

In recent years, combining neural networks with local search heuristics has become popular in the field of combinatorial optimization. Despite its considerable computational demands, this approach has exhibited promising outcomes with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Ankur Nath , Alan Kuhnle

The purpose of this note is to survey a methodology to solve systems of polynomial equations and inequalities. The techniques we discuss use the algebra of multivariate polynomials with coefficients over a field to create large-scale linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-08 Jesus A. De Loera , Peter N. Malkin , Pablo A. Parrilo

The success of machine learning solutions for reasoning about discrete structures has brought attention to its adoption within combinatorial optimization algorithms. Such approaches generally rely on supervised learning by leveraging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Ismail R. Alkhouri , George K. Atia , Alvaro Velasquez