Search Results for author: Zhiguang Cao

Found 29 papers, 21 papers with code

Cross-Problem Learning for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems

no code implementations17 Apr 2024 Zhuoyi Lin, Yaoxin Wu, Bangjian Zhou, Zhiguang Cao, Wen Song, Yingqian Zhang, Senthilnath Jayavelu

Accordingly, we propose to pre-train the backbone Transformer for TSP, and then apply it in the process of fine-tuning the Transformer models for each target VRP variant.

LLaMoCo: Instruction Tuning of Large Language Models for Optimization Code Generation

no code implementations2 Mar 2024 Zeyuan Ma, Hongshu Guo, Jiacheng Chen, Guojun Peng, Zhiguang Cao, Yining Ma, Yue-Jiao Gong

Recent research explores optimization using large language models (LLMs) by either iteratively seeking next-step solutions from LLMs or directly prompting LLMs for an optimizer.

Code Generation Contrastive Learning

Learning Topological Representations with Bidirectional Graph Attention Network for Solving Job Shop Scheduling Problem

no code implementations27 Feb 2024 Cong Zhang, Zhiguang Cao, Yaoxin Wu, Wen Song, Jing Sun

Existing learning-based methods for solving job shop scheduling problem (JSSP) usually use off-the-shelf GNN models tailored to undirected graphs and neglect the rich and meaningful topological structures of disjunctive graphs (DGs).

Graph Attention Job Shop Scheduling +1

ReEvo: Large Language Models as Hyper-Heuristics with Reflective Evolution

1 code implementation2 Feb 2024 Haoran Ye, Jiarui Wang, Zhiguang Cao, Guojie Song

The omnipresence of NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) compels domain experts to engage in trial-and-error heuristic design process.

Combinatorial Optimization

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

1 code implementation13 Dec 2023 Haoran Ye, Jiarui Wang, Helan Liang, Zhiguang Cao, Yong Li, Fanzhang Li

The recent end-to-end neural solvers have shown promise for small-scale routing problems but suffered from limited real-time scaling-up performance.

Neural Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization with Diversity Enhancement

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2023 Jinbiao Chen, Zizhen Zhang, Zhiguang Cao, Yaoxin Wu, Yining Ma, Te Ye, Jiahai Wang

Most of existing neural methods for multi-objective combinatorial optimization (MOCO) problems solely rely on decomposition, which often leads to repetitive solutions for the respective subproblems, thus a limited Pareto set.

Combinatorial Optimization Graph Attention

MetaBox: A Benchmark Platform for Meta-Black-Box Optimization with Reinforcement Learning

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2023 Zeyuan Ma, Hongshu Guo, Jiacheng Chen, Zhenrui Li, Guojun Peng, Yue-Jiao Gong, Yining Ma, Zhiguang Cao

To fill this gap, we introduce MetaBox, the first benchmark platform expressly tailored for developing and evaluating MetaBBO-RL methods.

Benchmarking

DeepACO: Neural-enhanced Ant Systems for Combinatorial Optimization

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2023 Haoran Ye, Jiarui Wang, Zhiguang Cao, Helan Liang, Yong Li

As a Neural Combinatorial Optimization method, DeepACO performs better than or on par with problem-specific methods on canonical routing problems.

Combinatorial Optimization

Towards Omni-generalizable Neural Methods for Vehicle Routing Problems

1 code implementation31 May 2023 Jianan Zhou, Yaoxin Wu, Wen Song, Zhiguang Cao, Jie Zhang

Learning heuristics for vehicle routing problems (VRPs) has gained much attention due to the less reliance on hand-crafted rules.

Combinatorial Optimization Meta-Learning +1

Neural Airport Ground Handling

1 code implementation4 Mar 2023 Yaoxin Wu, Jianan Zhou, Yunwen Xia, Xianli Zhang, Zhiguang Cao, Jie Zhang

Airport ground handling (AGH) offers necessary operations to flights during their turnarounds and is of great importance to the efficiency of airport management and the economics of aviation.

Combinatorial Optimization Reinforcement Learning (RL) +1

Deep Reinforcement Learning Guided Improvement Heuristic for Job Shop Scheduling

1 code implementation20 Nov 2022 Cong Zhang, Zhiguang Cao, Wen Song, Yaoxin Wu, Jie Zhang

Recent studies in using deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to solve Job-shop scheduling problems (JSSP) focus on construction heuristics.

Job Shop Scheduling reinforcement-learning +2

Learning Generalizable Models for Vehicle Routing Problems via Knowledge Distillation

1 code implementation14 Oct 2022 Jieyi Bi, Yining Ma, Jiahai Wang, Zhiguang Cao, Jinbiao Chen, Yuan Sun, Yeow Meng Chee

Recent neural methods for vehicle routing problems always train and test the deep models on the same instance distribution (i. e., uniform).

Knowledge Distillation

Learning to Solve Multiple-TSP with Time Window and Rejections via Deep Reinforcement Learning

1 code implementation13 Sep 2022 Rongkai Zhang, Cong Zhang, Zhiguang Cao, Wen Song, Puay Siew Tan, Jie Zhang, Bihan Wen, Justin Dauwels

We propose a manager-worker framework based on deep reinforcement learning to tackle a hard yet nontrivial variant of Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP), \ie~multiple-vehicle TSP with time window and rejections (mTSPTWR), where customers who cannot be served before the deadline are subject to rejections.

Efficient Neural Neighborhood Search for Pickup and Delivery Problems

2 code implementations25 Apr 2022 Yining Ma, Jingwen Li, Zhiguang Cao, Wen Song, Hongliang Guo, YueJiao Gong, Yeow Meng Chee

We present an efficient Neural Neighborhood Search (N2S) approach for pickup and delivery problems (PDPs).

Learning to Solve Routing Problems via Distributionally Robust Optimization

1 code implementation15 Feb 2022 Yuan Jiang, Yaoxin Wu, Zhiguang Cao, Jie Zhang

Recent deep models for solving routing problems always assume a single distribution of nodes for training, which severely impairs their cross-distribution generalization ability.

Learning Large Neighborhood Search Policy for Integer Programming

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2021 Yaoxin Wu, Wen Song, Zhiguang Cao, Jie Zhang

We then design a neural network to learn policies for each variable in parallel, trained by a customized actor-critic algorithm.

Reinforcement Learning (RL)

NeuroLKH: Combining Deep Learning Model with Lin-Kernighan-Helsgaun Heuristic for Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2021 Liang Xin, Wen Song, Zhiguang Cao, Jie Zhang

We present NeuroLKH, a novel algorithm that combines deep learning with the strong traditional heuristic Lin-Kernighan-Helsgaun (LKH) for solving Traveling Salesman Problem.

Traveling Salesman Problem

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Solving the Heterogeneous Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem

1 code implementation6 Oct 2021 Jingwen Li, Yining Ma, Ruize Gao, Zhiguang Cao, Andrew Lim, Wen Song, Jie Zhang

To solve those problems, we propose a DRL method based on the attention mechanism with a vehicle selection decoder accounting for the heterogeneous fleet constraint and a node selection decoder accounting for the route construction, which learns to construct a solution by automatically selecting both a vehicle and a node for this vehicle at each step.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Heterogeneous Attentions for Solving Pickup and Delivery Problem via Deep Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations6 Oct 2021 Jingwen Li, Liang Xin, Zhiguang Cao, Andrew Lim, Wen Song, Jie Zhang

In particular, the heterogeneous attention mechanism specifically prescribes attentions for each role of the nodes while taking into account the precedence constraint, i. e., the pickup node must precede the pairing delivery node.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Learning to Iteratively Solve Routing Problems with Dual-Aspect Collaborative Transformer

2 code implementations NeurIPS 2021 Yining Ma, Jingwen Li, Zhiguang Cao, Wen Song, Le Zhang, Zhenghua Chen, Jing Tang

Moreover, the positional features are embedded through a novel cyclic positional encoding (CPE) method to allow Transformer to effectively capture the circularity and symmetry of VRP solutions (i. e., cyclic sequences).

Traveling Salesman Problem

Learning Scenario Representation for Solving Two-stage Stochastic Integer Programs

no code implementations ICLR 2022 Yaoxin Wu, Wen Song, Zhiguang Cao, Jie Zhang

Many practical combinatorial optimization problems under uncertainty can be modeled as stochastic integer programs (SIPs), which are extremely challenging to solve due to the high complexity.

Combinatorial Optimization Vocal Bursts Valence Prediction

Generative Adversarial Training for Neural Combinatorial Optimization Models

no code implementations29 Sep 2021 Liang Xin, Wen Song, Zhiguang Cao, Jie Zhang

Recent studies show that deep neural networks can be trained to learn good heuristics for various Combinatorial Optimization Problems (COPs).

Combinatorial Optimization Traveling Salesman Problem

Multi-Decoder Attention Model with Embedding Glimpse for Solving Vehicle Routing Problems

1 code implementation19 Dec 2020 Liang Xin, Wen Song, Zhiguang Cao, Jie Zhang

We present a novel deep reinforcement learning method to learn construction heuristics for vehicle routing problems.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Learning Variable Ordering Heuristics for Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems

1 code implementation23 Dec 2019 Wen Song, Zhiguang Cao, Jie Zhang, Andrew Lim

In this paper, we propose a deep reinforcement learning based approach to automatically discover new variable ordering heuristics that are better adapted for a given class of CSP instances.

Learning Improvement Heuristics for Solving Routing Problems

1 code implementation12 Dec 2019 Yaoxin Wu, Wen Song, Zhiguang Cao, Jie Zhang, Andrew Lim

In this paper, we propose a deep reinforcement learning framework to learn the improvement heuristics for routing problems.

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