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Autoencoders are effective deep learning models that can function as generative models and learn latent representations for downstream tasks. The use of graph autoencoders - with both encoder and decoder implemented as message passing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Magnus Cunow , Gerrit Großmann

Unsupervised graph representation learning aims to distill various graph information into a downstream task-agnostic dense vector embedding. However, existing graph representation learning approaches are designed mainly under the node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 You Li , Bei Lin , Binli Luo , Ning Gui

Reinforcement learning has recently shown promise in learning quality solutions in many combinatorial optimization problems. In particular, the attention-based encoder-decoder models show high effectiveness on various routing problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Aigerim Bogyrbayeva , Taehyun Yoon , Hanbum Ko , Sungbin Lim , Hyokun Yun , Changhyun Kwon

In the maximum traveling salesman problem (Max TSP) we are given a complete undirected graph with nonnegative weights on the edges and we wish to compute a traveling salesman tour of maximum weight. We present a fast combinatorial $\frac…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Szymon Dudycz , Jan Marcinkowski , Katarzyna Paluch , Bartosz Rybicki

For analysing real-world networks, graph representation learning is a popular tool. These methods, such as a graph autoencoder (GAE), typically rely on low-dimensional representations, also called embeddings, which are obtained through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Ruikang Ouyang , Andrew Elliott , Stratis Limnios , Mihai Cucuringu , Gesine Reinert

We introduce a topological feedback mechanism for the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) by analyzing the divergence between a tour and the minimum spanning tree (MST). Our key contribution is a canonical decomposition theorem that expresses…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Ilya Trofimov , Daria Voronkova , Alexander Mironenko , Anton Dmitriev , Eduard Tulchinskii , Evgeny Burnaev , Serguei Barannikov

Graph autoencoders (GAE) and variational graph autoencoders (VGAE) emerged as two powerful groups of unsupervised node embedding methods, with various applications to graph-based machine learning problems such as link prediction and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Guillaume Salha-Galvan

Many real-world problems can be formulated as a constrained Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). However, the constraints are always complex and numerous, making the TSPs challenging to solve. When the number of complicated constraints grows,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Jingxiao Chen , Ziqin Gong , Minghuan Liu , Jun Wang , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

Invertible transformation of large graphs into fixed dimensional vectors (embeddings) remains a challenge. Its overcoming would reduce any operation on graphs to an operation in a vector space. However, most existing methods are limited to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Adam Małkowski , Jakub Grzechociński , Paweł Wawrzyński

We present a trajectory optimization algorithm for the traveling salesman problem (TSP) in graphs of convex sets (GCS). Our framework uses an augmented graph of convex sets to encode the TSP specification and solve it exactly as a shortest…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Gael Luna , Tyler Summers

Recent neural heuristics for the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) primarily rely on node coordinates as input, which may be less effective in practical scenarios where real cost metrics-such as edge-based distances-are more relevant. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Dian Meng , Zhiguang Cao , Yaoxin Wu , Yaqing Hou , Hongwei Ge , Qiang Zhang

We show that the traveling salesman problem (TSP) and its many variants may be modeled as functional optimization problems over a graph. In this formulation, all vertices and arcs of the graph are functionals; i.e., a mapping from a space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-08 I. M. Ross , R. J. Proulx , M. Karpenko

The field of neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) trains neural policies to solve NP-hard problems such as the traveling salesperson problem (TSP). We ask whether, beyond producing good tours, a trained TSP solver learns internal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Reuben Narad , Léonard Boussioux , Michael Wagner

We study the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) on the metric completion of cubic and subcubic graphs, which is known to be NP-hard. The problem is of interest because of its relation to the famous 4/3 conjecture for metric TSP, which says…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-07 Sylvia Boyd , René Sitters , Suzanne van der Ster , Leen Stougie

Predicting metro passenger flow precisely is of great importance for dynamic traffic planning. Deep learning algorithms have been widely applied due to their robust performance in modelling non-linear systems. However, traditional deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Yuyang Miao , Yao Xu , Danilo Mandic

Graphs are ubiquitous in real-world scenarios and encompass a diverse range of tasks, from node-, edge-, and graph-level tasks to transfer learning. However, designing specific tasks for each type of graph data is often costly and lacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yulan Hu , Sheng Ouyang , Zhirui Yang , Ge Chen , Junchen Wan , Xiao Wang , Yong Liu

Masked graph autoencoder (MGAE) has emerged as a promising self-supervised graph pre-training (SGP) paradigm due to its simplicity and effectiveness. However, existing efforts perform the mask-then-reconstruct operation in the raw data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Wenxuan Tu , Qing Liao , Sihang Zhou , Xin Peng , Chuan Ma , Zhe Liu , Xinwang Liu , Zhiping Cai

Despite advances in generative methods, accurately modeling the distribution of graphs remains a challenging task primarily because of the absence of predefined or inherent unique graph representation. Two main strategies have emerged to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Yoann Boget , Magda Gregorova , Alexandros Kalousis

Graph autoencoders (AE) and variational autoencoders (VAE) are powerful node embedding methods, but suffer from scalability issues. In this paper, we introduce FastGAE, a general framework to scale graph AE and VAE to large graphs with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Guillaume Salha , Romain Hennequin , Jean-Baptiste Remy , Manuel Moussallam , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Pretrained encoders for mathematical texts have achieved significant improvements on various tasks such as formula classification and information retrieval. Yet they remain limited in representing and capturing student strategies for entire…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Siddhartha Pradhan , Ethan Prihar , Erin Ottmar