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The traveling salesman (or salesperson) problem, short TSP, is a problem of strong interest to many researchers from mathematics, economics, and computer science. Manifold TSP variants occur in nearly every scientific field and application…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Sophia Saller , Jana Koehler , Andreas Karrenbauer

Software design is crucial to successful software development, yet is a demanding multi-objective problem for software engineers. In an attempt to assist the software designer, interactive (i.e. human in-the-loop) meta-heuristic search…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Christopher L. Simons , Jim Smith , Paul White

In this work we revisit the Hopfield-Tank algorithm for the traveling salesman problem (TSP) and report encouraging results, with a different dynamics, that makes the algorithm more efficient finding better solutions in much less…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Argollo de Menezes , T. J. P. Penna

Optimisation of fleets of commercial vehicles with regards scheduling tasks from various locations to vehicles can result in considerably lower fleet traversal times. This has significant benefits including reduced expenses for the company…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Darren M. Chitty , Elizabeth Wanner , Rakhi Parmar , Peter R. Lewis

The minmax multiple traveling salesman problem involves minimizing the longest tour among a set of tours. The problem is of great practical interest because it can be used to formulate several real-life applications. To solve this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Pengfei He , Jin-Kao Hao , Jinhui Xia

We present a Pseudo-Transient Topology Optimization (PeTTO) approach that can leverage graphics processing units (GPUs) to efficiently solve single-material and multi-material topology optimization problems. By integrating PeTTO with phase…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Mingyuan Yang , Qian Yu , Chao Yang

Multiple-TSP, also abbreviated in the literature as mTSP, is an extension of the Traveling Salesman Problem that lies at the core of many variants of the Vehicle Routing problem of great practical importance. The current paper develops and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Vlad-Ioan Lupoaie , Ivona-Alexandra Chili , Mihaela Elena Breaban , Madalina Raschip

In this work, a novel idea is presented for combinatorial optimization problems, a hybrid network, which results in a superior outcome. We applied this method to graph pointer networks [1], expanding its capabilities to a higher level. We…

Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) has evolved into a highly promising issue owing to the latest breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), among other reasons. This emerging growth increases the need to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Oscar Gil Viyuela , Alberto Sanfeliu

Window decoding, first proposed to reduce decoding complexity for real-time decoding, is an essential component to realize scalable, universal-fault tolerant computation. Prior work has focused on improving throughput through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Tina Oberoi , Joshua Viszlai , Frederic T. Chong

Applications such as megaregional planning require efficient methods for solving traffic assignment problems (TAPs) on large-scale networks. We propose a decomposition heuristic that generates approximate TAP solutions by partitioning the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Venktesh Pandey , Priyadarshan N. Patil

With applications to many disciplines, the traveling salesman problem (TSP) is a classical computer science optimization problem with applications to industrial engineering, theoretical computer science, bioinformatics, and several other…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Yihui He , Ming Xiang

The generalized traveling salesman problem (GTSP) is an extension of the well-known traveling salesman problem. In GTSP, we are given a partition of cities into groups and we are required to find a minimum length tour that includes exactly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-03-30 Gregory Gutin , Daniel Karapetyan

We present a scalable, high-performance algorithm that deterministically solves large-scale instances of the Traveling Salesman problem (in its asymmetric version, ATSP) to optimality using commercially available computing hardware. By…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Wissam Nakhle

In this article, a heuristic is proposed for a min-max heterogeneous multi-vehicle multi-depot traveling salesman problem (TSP), wherein heterogeneous vehicles start from given depot positions and need to cover a given set of targets. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-01 Deepak Prakash Kumar , Sivakumar Rathinam , Swaroop Darbha , Trevor Bihl

Variational quantum algorithms are promising for combinatorial optimization, but their scalability is often limited by qubit-intensive encoding schemes. To overcome this bottleneck, Pauli Correlation Encoding (PCE) has emerged as one of the…

We propose an end-to-end learning framework based on hierarchical reinforcement learning, called H-TSP, for addressing the large-scale Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP). The proposed H-TSP constructs a solution of a TSP instance starting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Xuanhao Pan , Yan Jin , Yuandong Ding , Mingxiao Feng , Li Zhao , Lei Song , Jiang Bian

During language model decoding, it is known that using higher temperature sampling gives more creative responses, while lower temperatures are more factually accurate. However, such models are commonly applied to general instruction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Shehzaad Dhuliawala , Ilia Kulikov , Ping Yu , Asli Celikyilmaz , Jason Weston , Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Jack Lanchantin

Within modern warehouse scenarios, the rapid expansion of e-commerce and increasingly complex, multi-level storage environments have exposed the limitations of traditional AGV (Automated Guided Vehicle) path planning methods--often reliant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Bo Zhang , Xiubo Liang , Wei Song , Yulu Chen

In this research, we discuss the intermittent traveling salesman problem (ITSP), which extends the traditional traveling salesman problem (TSP) by imposing temperature restrictions on each node. These additional constraints limit the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Pieter Leyman , San Tu Pham , Patrick De Causmaecker