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Large Neighborhood Search (LNS) is a combinatorial optimization heuristic that starts with an assignment of values for the variables to be optimized, and iteratively improves it by searching a large neighborhood around the current…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-23 Nicolas Sonnerat , Pengming Wang , Ira Ktena , Sergey Bartunov , Vinod Nair

Large Neighborhood Search (LNS) is a common heuristic in combinatorial optimization that iteratively searches over a large neighborhood of the current solution for a better one. Recently, neural network-based LNS solvers have achieved great…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Shengyu Feng , Zhiqing Sun , Yiming Yang

Mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs) are extensively used to model practical problems such as planning and scheduling. A prominent method for solving MILPs is large neighborhood search (LNS), which iteratively seeks improved solutions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Wenbo Liu , Akang Wang , Wenguo Yang , Qingjiang Shi

Integer Linear Programs (ILPs) are powerful tools for modeling and solving a large number of combinatorial optimization problems. Recently, it has been shown that Large Neighborhood Search (LNS), as a heuristic algorithm, can find high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Taoan Huang , Aaron Ferber , Yuandong Tian , Bistra Dilkina , Benoit Steiner

This paper studies a strategy for data-driven algorithm design for large-scale combinatorial optimization problems that can leverage existing state-of-the-art solvers in general purpose ways. The goal is to arrive at new approaches that can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Jialin Song , Ravi Lanka , Yisong Yue , Bistra Dilkina

We propose Large Neighborhood Prioritized Search (LNPS) for solving combinatorial optimization problems in Answer Set Programming (ASP). LNPS is a metaheuristic that starts with an initial solution and then iteratively tries to find better…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Irumi Sugimori , Katsumi Inoue , Hidetomo Nabeshima , Torsten Schaub , Takehide Soh , Naoyuki Tamura , Mutsunori Banbara

Large Neighborhood Search (LNS) is a popular heuristic algorithm for solving combinatorial optimization problems (COP). It starts with an initial solution to the problem and iteratively improves it by searching a large neighborhood around…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Taoan Huang , Aaron Ferber , Yuandong Tian , Bistra Dilkina , Benoit Steiner

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) aims to arrange collision-free goal-reaching paths for a group of agents. Anytime MAPF solvers based on large neighborhood search (LNS) have gained prominence recently due to their flexibility and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jiaqi Tan , Yudong Luo , Jiaoyang Li , Hang Ma

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) is widely employed for modeling combinatorial optimization problems. In practice, similar MILP instances with only coefficient variations are routinely solved, and machine learning (ML) algorithms are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Qingyu Han , Linxin Yang , Qian Chen , Xiang Zhou , Dong Zhang , Akang Wang , Ruoyu Sun , Xiaodong Luo

We propose a deep reinforcement learning (RL) method to learn large neighborhood search (LNS) policy for integer programming (IP). The RL policy is trained as the destroy operator to select a subset of variables at each step, which is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Yaoxin Wu , Wen Song , Zhiguang Cao , Jie Zhang

Mixed-integer programming (MIP) is a powerful paradigm for modeling and solving various important combinatorial optimization problems. Recently, learning-based approaches have shown a potential to speed up MIP solving via offline training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Junyang Cai , Serdar Kadioglu , Bistra Dilkina

This work introduces a framework to address the computational complexity inherent in Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) models by harnessing the potential of deep learning. By employing deep learning, we construct problem-specific heuristics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Niki Triantafyllou , Maria M. Papathanasiou

A new variant of the classic capacitated facility location problem, which considers incompatibilities between customers, has recently been introduced in the literature. This problem captures the situation where given pairs of customers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ida Gjergji , Lucas Kletzander , Nysret Musliu , Andrea Schaerf

This paper presents a novel neural network design that learns the heuristic for Large Neighborhood Search (LNS). LNS consists of a destroy operator and a repair operator that specify a way to carry out the neighborhood search to solve the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Mingxiang Chen , Lei Gao , Qichang Chen , Zhixin Liu

Large Neighborhood Search (LNS) is a universal approach that is broadly applicable and has proven to be highly efficient in practice for solving optimization problems. We propose to integrate machine learning (ML) into LNS to assist in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Willem Feijen , Guido Schäfer , Koen Dekker , Seppo Pieterse

Besides training, mathematical optimization is also used in deep learning to model and solve formulations over trained neural networks for purposes such as verification, compression, and optimization with learned constraints. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Jiatai Tong , Junyang Cai , Thiago Serra

Combinatorial optimization problems are encountered in many practical contexts such as logistics and production, but exact solutions are particularly difficult to find and usually NP-hard for considerable problem sizes. To compute…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Jonas K. Falkner , Daniela Thyssens , Ahmad Bdeir , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) solvers rely on an array of sophisticated heuristics developed with decades of research to solve large-scale MIP instances encountered in practice. Machine learning offers to automatically construct better…

Mixed-Integer Linear Programs (MIPs) are powerful and flexible tools for modeling a wide range of real-world combinatorial optimization problems. Predict-and-Search methods operate by using a predictive model to estimate promising variable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Junyang Cai , El Mehdi Er Raqabi , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Bistra Dilkina

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown promise in Automated Heuristic Design (AHD), existing approaches typically formulate AHD around constructive priority rules or parameterized local search guidance, thereby restricting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Baoyun Zhao , He Wang , Liang Zeng
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