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In this work, we introduce Graph Pointer Networks (GPNs) trained using reinforcement learning (RL) for tackling the traveling salesman problem (TSP). GPNs build upon Pointer Networks by introducing a graph embedding layer on the input,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Qiang Ma , Suwen Ge , Danyang He , Darshan Thaker , Iddo Drori

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for solving combinatorial optimization problems (COPs), exhibiting state-of-the-art performance in both graph-structured and non-graph-structured domains. However, existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yaochu Jin , Xueming Yan , Shiqing Liu , Xiangyu Wang

A new method to solve computationally challenging (random) parametric obstacle problems is developed and analyzed, where the parameters can influence the related partial differential equation (PDE) and determine the position and surface…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Martin Eigel , Cosmas Heiß , Janina E. Schütte

The 2021 NeurIPS Machine Learning for Combinatorial Optimization (ML4CO) competition was designed with the goal of improving state-of-the-art combinatorial optimization solvers by replacing key heuristic components with machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi , Yong Zhang

While social networks are widely used as a media for information diffusion, attackers can also strategically employ analytical tools, such as influence maximization, to maximize the spread of adversarial content through the networks. We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Feiran Jia , Kai Zhou , Charles Kamhoua , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

We consider the general problem of blocking all solutions of some given combinatorial problem with only few elements. For example, the problem of destroying all maximum cliques of a given graph by forbidding only few vertices. Problems of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Christoph Grüne , Lasse Wulf

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a powerful representational tool for solving problems on graph-structured inputs. In almost all cases so far, however, they have been applied to directly recovering a final solution from raw inputs, without…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-16 Petar Veličković , Rex Ying , Matilde Padovano , Raia Hadsell , Charles Blundell

Recently, deep neural networks have emerged as a solution to solve NP-hard wireless resource allocation problems in real-time. However, multi-layer perceptron (MLP) and convolutional neural network (CNN) structures, which are inherited from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Sharan Mourya , Pavan Reddy , SaiDhiraj Amuru , Kiran Kumar Kuchi

Network flow interdiction analysis studies by how much the value of a maximum flow in a network can be diminished by removing components of the network constrained to some budget. Although this problem is strongly NP-complete on general…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-01-14 Rico Zenklusen

While deep learning techniques have become extremely popular for solving a broad range of optimization problems, methods to enforce hard constraints during optimization, particularly on deep neural networks, remain underdeveloped. Inspired…

The orienteering problem is a well-studied and fundamental problem in transportation science. In the problem, we are given a graph with prizes on the nodes and lengths on the edges, together with a budget on the overall tour length. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Eduardo Álvarez-Miranda , Markus Sinnl , Kübra Tanınmış

In this study, we consider a class of linear matroid interdiction problems, where the feasible sets for the upper-level decision-maker (referred to as a leader) and the lower-level decision-maker (referred to as a follower) are induced by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sergey S. Ketkov , Oleg A. Prokopyev

Designing faster algorithms for solving Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problems is highly desired across numerous practical domains, as a vast array of complex real-world challenges can be effectively modeled as MILP formulations.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Ruizhi Liu , Liming Xu , Xulin Huang , Jingyan Sui , Shizhe Ding , Boyang Xia , Chungong Yu , Dongbo Bu

In this paper, we investigate the constraint typology of mixed-integer linear programming MILP formulations. MILP is a commonly used mathematical programming technique for modelling and solving real-life scheduling, routing, planning,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Vicky Mak-Hau , John Yearwood , William Moran

We propose a novel global solution algorithm for the network-constrained unit commitment problem incorporating a nonlinear alternating current model of the transmission network, which is a nonconvex mixed-integer nonlinear programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Jianfeng Liu , Anya Castillo , Jean-Paul Watson , Carl D. Laird

When two or more users in a wireless network transmit simultaneously, their electromagnetic signals are linearly superimposed on the channel. As a result, a receiver that is interested in one of these signals sees the others as unwanted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-03-01 Bobak Nazer , Michael Gastpar

Deep neural networks have recently emerged as a disruptive technology to solve NP-hard wireless resource allocation problems in a real-time manner. However, the adopted neural network structures, e.g., multi-layer perceptron (MLP) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Yifei Shen , Yuanming Shi , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Bilevel optimization deals with nested problems in which a leader takes the first decision to minimize their objective function while accounting for a follower's best-response reaction. Constrained bilevel problems with integer variables…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Justin Dumouchelle , Esther Julien , Jannis Kurtz , Elias B. Khalil

Network visualization is essential for many scientific, societal, technological and artistic domains. The primary goal is to highlight patterns out of nodes interconnected by edges that are easy to understand, facilitate communication and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-18 Fabrizio De Vico Fallani , Thibault Rolland

This paper analyzes the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with mixed integer linear programming (MILP) to address complex optimization challenges in air transportation with explainability. The study aims to validate the use of…