Learning-guided iterated local search for the minmax multiple traveling salesman problem

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Main Authors: He, Pengfei, Hao, Jin-Kao, Xia, Jinhui
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author He, Pengfei
Hao, Jin-Kao
Xia, Jinhui
author_facet He, Pengfei
Hao, Jin-Kao
Xia, Jinhui
contents 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 computationally challenging problem, we propose a leaning-driven iterated local search approach that combines an aggressive local search procedure with a probabilistic acceptance criterion to find high-quality local optimal solutions and a multi-armed bandit algorithm to select various removal and insertion operators to escape local optimal traps. Extensive experiments on 77 commonly used benchmark instances show that our algorithm achieves excellent results in terms of solution quality and running time. In particular, it achieves 32 new best-known results and matches the best-known results for 35 other instances. Additional experiments shed light on the understanding of the composing elements of the algorithm.
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spellingShingle Learning-guided iterated local search for the minmax multiple traveling salesman problem
He, Pengfei
Hao, Jin-Kao
Xia, Jinhui
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
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 computationally challenging problem, we propose a leaning-driven iterated local search approach that combines an aggressive local search procedure with a probabilistic acceptance criterion to find high-quality local optimal solutions and a multi-armed bandit algorithm to select various removal and insertion operators to escape local optimal traps. Extensive experiments on 77 commonly used benchmark instances show that our algorithm achieves excellent results in terms of solution quality and running time. In particular, it achieves 32 new best-known results and matches the best-known results for 35 other instances. Additional experiments shed light on the understanding of the composing elements of the algorithm.
title Learning-guided iterated local search for the minmax multiple traveling salesman problem
topic Neural and Evolutionary Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12389