- Welcome to the NCo-ZooParty.
- The full name of NCO is Neural Combinatorial Optimization.
- The repository is devoted to sharing advanced and lasted papers that solve challenging Combinatorial Optimization Problems.
- JinkunDong is a third-year PhD student at the Key Laboratory of Big Data & Artificial Intelligence in Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University.
- Current research interest is Vehicle Routing Problems.
- ăSurveyăMachine Learning for Combinatorial Optimization: a Methodological Tour dâHorizonâ, Bengio, 2018, European Journal of Operations Research.[Paper]
- ăSurveyăLearning to Solve Vehicle Routing Problems: A Survey, T-ITS, 2022.[Paper]
- ăSurveyăNeural Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems: A Comprehensive Survey with Perspectives, 2024. [Paper]
- ăSurveyăA Survey on Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization, AIC, 2023. [Paper]
- ăSurveyăA Review on Learning to Solve Combinatorial Optimisation Problems in Manufacturing, IET Collaborative Intelligent Manufacturing, 2022. [PDF]
- Recurrent State Encoders for Efficient Neural Combinatorial Optimization, 2025, arxiv. [Paper][Code]
- VRPAGENT: LLM-Driven Discovery Of Heuristic Operators For Vehicle Routing Problems, 2025, arxiv. [Paper][Code]
- ăPARCOăPARCO: Learning Parallel Autoregressive Policies for Efficient Multi-Agent Combinatorial Optimization, 2025, Nips.[Paper][Code]
- Neural Combinatorial Optimization for Time Dependent Traveling Salesman Problem, 2025, Nips.
- Solving the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem via Trace-Guided Cost Augmentation, 2025, Nips.
- Large Language Models as End-to-end Combinatorial Optimization Solvers, 2025, Nips. [Paper][Code]
- UniteFormer: Unifying Node and Edge Modalities in Transformers for Vehicle Routing Problem, 2025, Nips.
- Probing Neural Combinatorial Optimization Models, 2025, Nips.
- ăHBGăHybrid-Balance GFlowNet for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems, 2025, Nips. [Paper][Code]
- ăL2C-insertăLearning to Insert for Constructive Neural Vehicle Routing Solver, 2025, Nips. [Paper]
- Rethinking Neural Combinatorial Optimization for Vehicle Routing Problems with Different Constraint Tightness Degrees, 2025, Nips. [Paper]
- ăTTPLăImproving Generalization of Neural Combinatorial Optimization for Vehicle Routing Problems via Test-Time Projection Learning , 2025, Nips. [Paper]
- ăPOMO+ăPOMO+: Leveraging starting nodes in POMO for solving Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem, 2025, arxiv. [Paper]
- ăL2SegăLearning to Segment for Vehicle Routing Problems, 2025, arxiv. [Paper]
- Curriculum Learning in Genetic Programming Guided Local Search for Large-scale Vehicle Routing Problems, 2025, arxiv. [Paper]
- ăMTL-KDăMTL-KD: Multi-Task Learning Via Knowledge Distillation for Generalizable Neural Vehicle Routing Solver, 2025, arxiv. [Paper]
- Enhancing Generalization in Large-Scale HCVRP: A Rank-Augmented Neural Solver, 2025, SIGKDD.
- ăGFACSăAnt Colony Sampling with GFlowNets for Combinatorial Optimization, 2025, arxiv. [Paper][Code]
- ăGELDăFrom Global Assessment to Local Selction: Efficiently Solving Traveling Saleman Problems of All Sizes, 2025, arxiv. [Paper][Code]
- ăRedAHDăRedAHD: Reduction-Based End-to-End Automatic Heuristic Design with Large Language Models, 2025, arxiv. [Paper]
- A Mixed-Curvature based Pre-training Paradigm for Multi-Task Vehicle Routing Solver, 2025, ICML.
- ăSHIELDăSHIELD: Multi-task Multi-distribution Vehicle Routing Solver with Sparsity & Hierarchy in Efficiently Layered Decoder, 2025, IJCAI. [Paper]
- Preference-based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Historical Route Estimation, 2025, IJCAI.
- ăDGLăDGL: Dynamic Global-Local Information Aggregation for Scalable VRP Generalization with Self-Improvement Learning, 2025, IJCAI. [Paper]
- ăEFormerăEFormer: An Effective Edge-based Transformer for Vehicle Routing Problems, 2025, IJCAI. [Paper]
- ăPOăPreference Optimization for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, 2025, ICML. [Paper]
- ăTrajEvoăTrajEvo: Designing Trajectory Prediction Heuristics via LLM-driven Evolution, 2025, arxiv. [Paper][Code]
- Large Language Models Powered Neural Solvers For Generalized Vehicle Routing Problems, 2025, ICLR. [Paper][Code]
- ăDRHGăDestroy and Repair Using Hyper-Graphs for Routing, 2025, AAAI. [Paper][Code]
- TuneNSearch: a hybrid transfer learning and local search approach for solving vehicle routing problems, 2025, arxiv. [Paper]
- Neural Combinatorial Optimization for Real-World Routing, 2025, arxiv. [paper][Code]
- ăPOCOăNeural Combinatorial Optimization via Preference Optimization, 2025, arxiv. [Paper]
- ăL2RăL2R: Learning to Reduce Search Space for Generalizable Neural Routing Solver, 2025, arxiv. [Paper]
- ăU-ML4TSPăUNIFY ML4TSP: DRAWING METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES FOR TSP AND BEYOND FROM STREAMLINED DESIGN SPACE OF LEARNING AND SEARCH, 2025, ICLR. [Paper][Code]
- ăPoHăPlanning of Heuristics: Strategic Planning on Large Language Models with Monte Carlo Tree Search for Automating Heuristic Optimization, 2025, arxiv.[Paper]
- ăIDEQăIDEQ: an improved diffusion model for the TSP, 2025, arxiv.[Paper]
- ăPolyNetăPolyNet: Learning Diverse Solution Strategies for Neural Combinatorial Optimization, 2025, ICLR.[Paper][Code]
- Cascaded Large-Scale TSP Solving with Unified Neural Guidance: Bridging Local and Population-based Search, 2025, arxiv.[Paper]
- ăSITăBoosting Neural Combinatorial Optimization for Large-Scale Vehicle Routing Problems, 2025, ICLR.[Paper][Code]
- ăLocalEscaperăLocalEscaper: A Weakly-supervised Framework with Regional Reconstruction for Scalable Neural TSP Solvers, 2025, arxiv.[Paper]
- ăHLGPăHierarchical Learning-based Graph Partition for Large-scale Vehicle Routing Problems, 2025, AAMAS.[Paper][Code]
- Reinforcement Learning-based Non-Autoregressive Solver for Traveling Salesman Problems, 2025, TNNLS.[Paper][Code]
- An Efficient Diffusion-based Non-Autoregressive Solver for Traveling Salesman Problem, 2025, SIGKDD.[Paper][Code]
- ăAGFNăAdversarial Generative Flow Network for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems, 2025, ICLR.[Paper][Code]
- ăReLDăRethinking Light Decoder-based Solvers for Vehicle Routing Problems, 2025, ICLR.[Paper]
- ăDualOptăDualOpt: A Dual Divide-and-Optimize Algorithm for the Large-scale Traveling Salesman Problem, 2025, AAAI.[Paper][Code]
- ăCAMPăCAMP: Collaborative Attention Model with Profiles for Vehicle Routing Problems, 2025, AAMAS. [Paper][Code]
- Diversity Optimization for Travelling Salesman Problem via Deep Reinforcement Learning, 2025, arxiv. [Paper]
- ăNDSăNeural Deconstruction search for Vehicle Routing Problems, 2025, arxiv.[Paper]
- ăMARCOăMARCO: A Memory-Augmented Reinforcement Framework for Combinatorial Optimization, 2024, IJCAI. [Paper][Code]
- ăLRBSăScaling Combinatorial Optimization Neural Improvement Heuristics with Online Search and Adaptation, 2024, arxiv. [Paper]
- ăUNCOăUNCO: Towards Unifying Neural Combinatorial Optimization through Large Language Model, 2024, arxiv.[Paper]
- ăEoHăEvolution of Heuristics: Towards Efficient Automatic Algorithm Design Using Large Language Model, 2024, ICML.[Paper][Code]
- ăReEvoăLarge Language Models as Hyper-Heuristics for Combinatorial Optimization, 2024, Nips.[Paper][Code]
- Prompt Learning for Generalized Vehicle Routing, 2024, IJCAI.[Paper][Code]
- ăCollaborationăCollaboration! Towards Robust Neural Methods for Vehicle Routing Problems, 2024, Nips.[Paper][Code]
- ăGOALăGOAL: A Generalist Combinatorial Optimization Agent Learner, 2024, arxiv. [Paper][Code]
- ăUDCăUDC: A Unified Neural Divide-and-Conquer Framework for Large-Scale Combinatorial Optimization Problems, 2024, Nips. [Paper][Code]
- ăDISCOăDISCO: Efficient Diffusion Solver for Large-Scale Combinatorial Optimization Problems, 2024, arxiv.[Paper]
- ăICAMăInstance-Conditioned Adaptation for Large-scale Generalization of Neural Combinatorial Optimization, 2024, arxiv. [Paper]
- ăMEMENTOăMemory-Enhanced Neural Solvers for Efficient Adaptation in Combinatorial Optimization, 2024, arxiv. [Paper][Code]
- ăHNCăHierarchical Neural Constructive Solver for Real-world TSP Scenarios, 2024, SIGKDD.[Paper]
- ăGDăSelf-Improvement for Neural Combinatorial Optimization: Sample without Replacement, but Improvement, 2024, TMLR.[Paper][Code]
- ăLR-POMOăLeader Reward for POMO-Based Neural Combinatorial Optimization, 2024, arxiv.[Paper]
- ăINViTăINViT: A Generalizable Routing Problem Solver with Invariant Nested View Transformer, 2024, ICML.[Paper][Code]
- ăGNARKDăDistilling Autoregressive Models to Obtain High-Performance Non-Autoregressive Solvers for Vehicle Routing Problems with Faster Inference Speed, 2024, AAAI.[Paper][Code]
- An adaptive variable neighborhood search approach for the dynamic vehicle routing problem, 2024, Computers and Operations Research.[Paper]
- ăGLOPăGLOP: Learning Global Partition and Local Construction for Solving Large-scale Routing Problems in Real-time, 2024, AAAI.[Paper][Code]
- ăRl4coăRl4co: an extensive reinforcement learning for combinatorial optimization benchmark, 2024, ICLR.[Paper][Code]
- Unsupervised graph neural networks with recurrent features for solving combinatorial optimization problems, 2024, arxiv.[Paper]
- Train Short, Test Long In Combinatorial Optimization, 2024, ICLR. [Paper]
- Enhancing Sample Efficiency in Black-box Combinatorial Optimization via Symmetric Replay Training, 2024, arxiv.[Paper]
- Enhancing the Cross-Size Generalization for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems via Continual Learning, 2024, arxiv.[Paper]
- EXPLORING BATTERY USAGE IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES THROUGH GRAPH BASED CASCADED CLUSTERING, 2024, ICLR.[Paper]
- Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem, 2024, ICLR.[Paper]
- ăELGăTowards Generalizable Neural Solvers for Vehicle Routing Problems via Ensemble with Transferrable Local Policy, 2024, IJCAI.[Paper][Code]
- ămEGATăSYMMETRY-PRESERVING GRAPH ATTENTION NETWORK TO SOLVE ROUTING PROBLEMS AT MULTIPLE RESOLUTIONS, 2024, arxiv. [Paper][Code]
- Multi-Task Learning for Routing Problem with Cross-Problem Zero-Shot Generalization, 2024, arxiv.[Paper]
- ăSILăSelf-Improved Learning for Scalable Neural Combinatorial Optimization, 2024, arxiv.[Paper]
- ăLCH-RegretăLearning Encodings for Constructive Neural Combinatorial Optimization Needs to Regret, 2024, AAAI.[Paper][Code]
- ăMocoăMOCO: A Learnable Meta Optimizer for Combinatorial Optimization, 2024, arxiv. [Paper][Code]
- ăPositionăPosition: Rethinking Post-Hoc Search-Based Neural Approaches for Solving Large-Scale Traveling Salesman Problems, 2024, ICML. [Paper][Code]
- ăESF-DSăImproving Generalization of Neural Vehicle Routing Problem Solvers Through the Lens of Model Architecture, arxiv, 2024. [Paper][Code]
- ăRouteFinderăRouteFinder: Towards Foundation Models for Vehicle Routing Problems, 2024, ICML.[Paper][Code]
- ăStep&ReconsiderăTake a Step and Reconsider: Sequence Decoding for Self-Improved Neural Combinatorial Optimization, 2024, ECAI. [Paper][Code]
- ăSRTăSymmetric Replay Training: Enhancing Sample Efficiency in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization, 2024, ICML. [Paper][Code]
- ăIILăIMITATION IMPROVEMENT LEARNING FOR LARGESCALE CAPACITATED VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS, 2023, ICAPS.[Paper][Code]
- ăUTSPăUnsupervised Learning for solving the TSP, 2023, NeurIPS.[Paper][Code]
- ăFERăLearning Feature Embedding Refiner for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems, 2023, TNNLS.[Paper][Code]
- ăPoppyăPopulation-based reinforcement learning for combinatorial optimization, 2023, NeurIPS.[Paper][Code]
- ăCOMPASSăCombinatorial Optimization with Policy Adaptation using Latent Space Search, 2023, NeurIPS.[Paper][Code]
- ăTAMăGeneralize Learned Heuristics to Solve Large-scale Vehicle Routing Problems in Real-time, 2023, ICLR.[Paper]
- ăMeta-SAGEăMeta-SAGE: Scale Meta-Learning Scheduled Adaptation with Guided Exploration for Mitigating Scale Shift on Combinatorial Optimization, 2023, ICML.[Paper][Code]
- DATA-EFFICIENT SUPERVISED LEARNING IS POWERFUL FOR NEURAL COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION, 2023, arxiv.[Paper]
- ăOmni-VRPăTowards Omni-generalizable Neural Methods for Vehicle Routing Problems, 2023, ICML.[Paper][Code]
- ăDIFUSCOăDIFUSCO: Graph-based Diffusion Solvers for Combinatorial Optimization, 2023, NeurIPS.[Paper][Code]
- ăLEHDăNeural Combinatorial Optimization with Heavy Decoder: Toward Large Scale Generalization, 2023, NeurIPS.[Paper][Code]
- ăPointerformerăPointerformer: Deep Reinforced Multi-Pointer Transformer for the Traveling Salesman Problem, 2023, AAAI.[Paper][Code]
- ăTspformerăMemory-efficient Transformer-based network model for Traveling Salesman Problem, 2023, Neural Networks.[Paper][Code]
- ăH-TSPăH-TSP: Hierarchically Solving the Large-Scale Travelling Salesman Problem, 2023, AAAI.[Paper][Code]
- Efficient graph neural architecture search using Monte Carlo Tree search and prediction network, 2023, ESWA.[Paper][Code]
- An Edge-Aware Graph Autoencoder Trained on Scale-Imbalanced Data for Travelling Salesman Problems, 2023, KBS.[Paper]
- ăHDRăA Hierarchical Destroy and Repair Approach for Solving Very Large-Scale Travelling Salesman Problem, 2023, arxiv.[Paper]
- ăSOăSelect and Optimize: Learning to solve large-scale TSP instances, 2023, AISTATS.[Paper][Code]
- Revisiting Sampling for Combinatorial Optimization, 2023, ICML.[Paper]
- ăROCOăROCO: A General Framework for Evaluating Robustness of Combinatorial Optimization Solvers on Graphs, 2023, ICLR.[Paper][Code]
- A GNN-GUIDED PREDICT-AND-SEARCH FRAMEWORK FOR MIXED-INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING, 2023, ICLR.[Paper][Code]
- ăMVGCLăMulti-View Graph Contrastive Learning for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems, 2023, UAI.[Paper]
- BOOSTING DIFFERENTIABLE CAUSAL DISCOVERY VIA ADAPTIVE SAMPLE REWEIGHTING, 2023, ICLR.[Paper][Code]
- ăDeepACOăDeepACO: Neural-enhanced Ant Systems for Combinatorial Optimization, 2023, NeurIPS.[Paper][Code]
- ăBQ-NCOăBQ-NCO: Bisimulation Quotienting for Efficient Neural Combinatorial Optimization, 2023, NeurIPS.[Paper][Code]
- ăRL-CSLăRL-CSL: A Combinatorial Optimization Method Using Reinforcement Learning and Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning, 2023, TETCI.[Paper][Code]
- ăNeuralGLSăNeuralgls: learning to guide local search with graph convolutional network for the traveling salesman problem, 2023, Neural Computing and Applications.[Paper]
- ăCnn-TransformerăA Lightweight CNN-Transformer Model for Learning Traveling Salesman Problems, 2023, Applied Intelligence. [PDF][Code]
- ăSCAăScale-conditioned Adaptation for Large Scale Combinatorial Optimization, 2022, NeurIPS. [Paper]
- ăGNNGLSăGraph Neural Network Guided Local Search for the Traveling Salesperson Problem, 2022, ICLR.[Paper][Code]
- ăSym-NCOăSym-NCO: Leveraging Symmetricity for Neural Combinatorial Optimization, 2022, NeurIPS.[Paper][Code]
- Learning to Solve Routing Problems via Distributionally Robust Optimization, 2022, AAAI.[Paper][Code]
- ăAMDKDăLearning Generalizable Models for Vehicle Routing Problems via Knowledge Distillation, 2022, NeurIPS.[Paper][Code]
- ăDIMESăDIMES: A Differentiable Meta Solver for Combinatorial Optimization Problems, 2022, NeurIPS.[Paper][Code]
- ăEASăEFFICIENT ACTIVE SEARCH FOR COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS, 2022, ICLR.[Paper][Code]
- Graph Neural Network Guided Local Search for the Traveling Salesperson Problem, 2022, ICLR.[Paper][Code]
- Learning the Travelling Salesperson Problem Requires Rethinking Generalization, 2022, arxiv.[Paper][Code]
- Learning to Solve Travelling Salesman Problem with Hardness-Adaptive Curriculum, 2022, AAAI.[Paper]
- A GAME-THEORETIC APPROACH FOR IMPROVING GENERALIZATION ABILITY OF TSP SOLVERS, 2022, ICLR.[Paper]
- ăSGBSăSimulation-guided Beam Search for Neural Combinatorial Optimization, 2022, NeurIPS.[Paper][Code]
- Large Neighborhood Search based on Neural Construction Heuristics, 2022, arxiv.[Paper][Code]
- Reinforced Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem, 2022, Computers & Operations Research.[Paper]
- ăRBGăHierarchically Solving Large-Scale Routing Problems in Logistic Systems via Reinforcement Learning, 2022, KDD.[Paper]
- ăL2DăLearning to delegate for large-scale vehicle routing, 2021, Nips. [Paper][Code]
- Erdo Ìs Goes Neural: an Unsupervised Learning Framework for Combinatorial Optimization on Graphs, 2020, Nips. [Paper][Code]
- Efficiently Solving the Practical Vehicle Routing Problem: A Novel Joint Learning Approach, 2020, KDD. [Paper][Code]
- ăKGLSăKnowledge-guided local search for the vehicle routing problem, 2019, Computers & Operations Research.[Paper]
- GENERALIZATION IN DEEP RL FOR TSP PROBLEMS VIA EQUIVARIANCE AND LOCAL SEARCH, 2021, SN Computer Science.[Paper]
- Learning 2âOpt Heuristics for Routing Problems via Deep Reinforcement Learning, 2021, SN Computer Science.[Paper][Code]
- ăSADMăAttention, Filling in The Gaps for Generalization in Routing Problems, 2022, ECML-PKDD.[Paper]
- ăAtt-GCRNăGeneralize a Small Pre-trained Model to Arbitrarily Large TSP Instances, 2021, AAAI.[Paper][Code]
- LEARNING A LATENT SEARCH SPACE FOR ROUTING PROBLEMS USING VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODERS, 2021, ICLR.[Paper][Code]
- Deep Policy Dynamic Programming for Vehicle Routing Problems, 2021.[Paper][Code]
- ăNeuroLKHăNeuroLKH: Combining Deep Learning Model with Lin-Kernighan-Helsgaun Heuristic for Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem, 2021, NeurIPS.[Paper][Code]
- ăLCPăLearning Collaborative Policies to Solve NP-hard Routing Problems, 2021, NeurIPS.[Paper][Code]
- ăDACTăLearning to Iteratively Solve Routing Problems with Dual-Aspect Collaborative Transformer, 2021, NeurIPS.[Paper][Code]
- ăMatNetăMatrix Encoding Networks for Neural Combinatorial Optimization, 2021, NeurIPS.[Paper][Code]
- ăPtr-NetăPointer Networks, 2017, NeurIPS.[Paper][Code]
- ăGCNăAn Efficient Graph Convolutional Network Technique for the Travelling Salesman Problem, 2019, INFORMS.[Paper][Code]
- ăAMăATTENTION, LEARN TO SOLVE ROUTING PROBLEMS!, 2019, ICLR.[Paper][Code]
- ăPOMOăPOMO: Policy Optimization with Multiple Optima for Reinforcement Learning, 2020, NeurIPS.[Paper][Code]
- Reinforcement Learning for Solving the Vehicle Routing Problem, 2018, NeurIPS.[Paper][Code]
- NEURAL COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION WITH REINFORCEMENT LEARNING, 2017, ICLR.[Paper][Code]
- Knowledge-guided local search for the vehicle routing problem, 2019, Computers & Operations Research.[Paper]
- Combinatorial optimization by graph pointer networks and hierarchical reinforcement learning, 2019, arxiv.[Paper][Code]
- ăMDAMăMulti-Decoder Attention Model with Embedding Glimpse for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems, 2020, AAAI.[Paper][Code]
- Step-wise Deep Learning Models for Solving Routing Problems, 2020, TII.[Paper][Code]
- ăAMDăA Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithm Using Dynamic Attention Model for Vehicle Routing Problems, 2022, ISICA.[Paper][Code]
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