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Given a graph $\mathcal{G}$, the spanning centrality (SC) of an edge $e$ measures the importance of $e$ for $\mathcal{G}$ to be connected. In practice, SC has seen extensive applications in computational biology, electrical networks, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Shiqi Zhang , Renchi Yang , Jing Tang , Xiaokui Xiao , Bo Tang

The Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem (GTSP) is one of the NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. A variant of GTSP is E-GTSP where E, meaning equality, has the constraint: exactly one node from a cluster of a graph partition is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Camelia-M. Pintea

Masked Graph Auto-Encoder, a powerful graph self-supervised training paradigm, has recently shown superior performance in graph representation learning. Existing works typically rely on node contextual information to recover the masked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Ziyu Zheng , Yaming Yang , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao , Weigang Lu

This paper presents a powerful genetic algorithm(GA) to solve the traveling salesman problem (TSP). To construct a powerful GA, I use edge swapping(ES) with a local search procedure to determine good combinations of building blocks of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-20 Shujia Liu

In order to deal with the high development time of exact and approximation algorithms for NP-hard combinatorial optimisation problems and the high running time of exact solvers, deep learning techniques have been used in recent years as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 James Fitzpatrick , Deepak Ajwani , Paula Carroll

The travelling salesman problem (TSP) of space trajectory design is complicated by its complex structure design space. The graph based tree search and stochastic seeding combinatorial approaches are commonly employed to tackle the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Liqiang Hou , Shufan Wu , Zhongcheng Mu , Meilin Liu

We study the online Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) on the line augmented with machine-learned predictions. In the classical problem, there is a stream of requests released over time along the real line. The goal is to minimize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Themis Gouleakis , Konstantinos Lakis , Golnoosh Shahkarami

Generative self-supervised learning (SSL), especially masked autoencoders, has become one of the most exciting learning paradigms and has shown great potential in handling graph data. However, real-world graphs are always heterogeneous,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Yijun Tian , Kaiwen Dong , Chunhui Zhang , Chuxu Zhang , Nitesh V. Chawla

Recently, transformers have shown promising performance in learning graph representations. However, there are still some challenges when applying transformers to real-world scenarios due to the fact that deep transformers are hard to train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Sixiao Zhang , Hongxu Chen , Haoran Yang , Xiangguo Sun , Philip S. Yu , Guandong Xu

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is one of the most famous optimization problems. Greedy crossover designed by Greffenstette et al, can be used while Symmetric TSP (STSP) is resolved by Genetic Algorithm (GA). Researchers have proposed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-25 Hassan Ismkhan , Kamran Zamanifar

We propose UTSP, an unsupervised learning (UL) framework for solving the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP). We train a Graph Neural Network (GNN) using a surrogate loss. The GNN outputs a heat map representing the probability for each edge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Yimeng Min , Yiwei Bai , Carla P. Gomes

This paper presents a framework to tackle combinatorial optimization problems using neural networks and reinforcement learning. We focus on the traveling salesman problem (TSP) and train a recurrent network that, given a set of city…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-16 Irwan Bello , Hieu Pham , Quoc V. Le , Mohammad Norouzi , Samy Bengio

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a well-known NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with wide-ranging applications in logistics, routing, and intelligent systems. Due to its factorial complexity, solving large-scale instances…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Rabab Alkhalifa , Fatima Alkhomayes , Boushra Almazroua , Dana Alhaidan , Maryam Alothman , Jumana Almuhaidib

Recent works on cost based relaxations have improved Constraint Programming (CP) models for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). We provide a short survey over solving asymmetric TSP with CP. Then, we suggest new implied propagators based…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Jean-Guillaume Fages , Xavier Lorca

The emergence of truck-drone collaborative systems in last-mile logistics has positioned the Traveling Salesman Problem with Drones (TSP-D) as a pivotal extension of classical routing optimization, where synchronized vehicle coordination…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Taihelong Zeng , Yun Lin , Yuhe Shi , Yan Li , Zhiqing Wei , Xuanru Ji

There has been a recent surge in transformer-based architectures for learning on graphs, mainly motivated by attention as an effective learning mechanism and the desire to supersede handcrafted operators characteristic of message passing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 David Buterez , Jon Paul Janet , Dino Oglic , Pietro Lio

Existing neural methods for the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) mostly aim at finding a single optimal solution. To discover diverse yet high-quality solutions for Multi-Solution TSP (MSTSP), we propose a novel deep reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Qi Li , Zhiguang Cao , Yining Ma , Yaoxin Wu , Yue-Jiao Gong

Most of the recent studies tackling routing problems like the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) with machine learning use a transformer or Graph Neural Network (GNN) based encoder architecture. However, many of them apply these encoders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Attila Lischka , Jiaming Wu , Rafael Basso , Morteza Haghir Chehreghani , Balázs Kulcsár

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is the most popular and most studied combinatorial problem, starting with von Neumann in 1951. It has driven the discovery of several optimization techniques such as cutting planes, branch-and-bound,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Xavier Bresson , Thomas Laurent

Missing data imputation (MDI) is crucial when dealing with tabular datasets across various domains. Autoencoders can be trained to reconstruct missing values, and graph autoencoders (GAE) can additionally consider similar patterns in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Lev Telyatnikov , Simone Scardapane