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Learning the Multiple Traveling Salesmen Problem with Permutation Invariant Pooling Networks

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arxiv 1803.09621 v2 pith:3JSDL6HU submitted 2018-03-26 cs.LG stat.ML

classification cs.LGstat.ML
keywords salesmenelementsmultiplenetworksproblemrecentsetssolution
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While there are optimal TSP solvers, as well as recent learning-based approaches, the generalization of the TSP to the Multiple Traveling Salesmen Problem is much less studied. Here, we design a neural network solution that treats the salesmen, cities and depot as three different sets of varying cardinalities. We apply a novel technique that combines elements from recent architectures that were developed for sets, as well as elements from graph networks. Coupled with new constraint enforcing output layers, a dedicated loss, and a search method, our solution is shown to outperform all the meta-heuristics of the leading solver in the field.

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