GLOP: Learning Global Partition and Local Construction for Solving Large-scale Routing Problems in Real-time

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Main Authors: Ye, Haoran, Wang, Jiarui, Liang, Helan, Cao, Zhiguang, Li, Yong, Li, Fanzhang
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author Ye, Haoran
Wang, Jiarui
Liang, Helan
Cao, Zhiguang
Li, Yong
Li, Fanzhang
author_facet Ye, Haoran
Wang, Jiarui
Liang, Helan
Cao, Zhiguang
Li, Yong
Li, Fanzhang
contents The recent end-to-end neural solvers have shown promise for small-scale routing problems but suffered from limited real-time scaling-up performance. This paper proposes GLOP (Global and Local Optimization Policies), a unified hierarchical framework that efficiently scales toward large-scale routing problems. GLOP partitions large routing problems into Travelling Salesman Problems (TSPs) and TSPs into Shortest Hamiltonian Path Problems. For the first time, we hybridize non-autoregressive neural heuristics for coarse-grained problem partitions and autoregressive neural heuristics for fine-grained route constructions, leveraging the scalability of the former and the meticulousness of the latter. Experimental results show that GLOP achieves competitive and state-of-the-art real-time performance on large-scale routing problems, including TSP, ATSP, CVRP, and PCTSP.
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spellingShingle GLOP: Learning Global Partition and Local Construction for Solving Large-scale Routing Problems in Real-time
Ye, Haoran
Wang, Jiarui
Liang, Helan
Cao, Zhiguang
Li, Yong
Li, Fanzhang
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
The recent end-to-end neural solvers have shown promise for small-scale routing problems but suffered from limited real-time scaling-up performance. This paper proposes GLOP (Global and Local Optimization Policies), a unified hierarchical framework that efficiently scales toward large-scale routing problems. GLOP partitions large routing problems into Travelling Salesman Problems (TSPs) and TSPs into Shortest Hamiltonian Path Problems. For the first time, we hybridize non-autoregressive neural heuristics for coarse-grained problem partitions and autoregressive neural heuristics for fine-grained route constructions, leveraging the scalability of the former and the meticulousness of the latter. Experimental results show that GLOP achieves competitive and state-of-the-art real-time performance on large-scale routing problems, including TSP, ATSP, CVRP, and PCTSP.
title GLOP: Learning Global Partition and Local Construction for Solving Large-scale Routing Problems in Real-time
topic Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08224