Summary of Ideq: An Improved Diffusion Model For the Tsp, by Mickael Basson et al.
IDEQ: an improved diffusion model for the TSP
by Mickael Basson, Philippe Preux
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes IDEQ, a novel diffusion model-based approach to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). Building on existing methods like DIFUSCO and T2TCO, IDEQ leverages the constrained state space of the TSP to improve solution quality. The model replaces the final stages of DIFUSCO’s curriculum learning with a uniform distribution over Hamiltonian tours that converge to the optimal solution as the training objective. Experimental results demonstrate that IDEQ outperforms previous neural network-based techniques on synthetic instances and matches or exceeds the performance of state-of-the-art heuristics like LKH3 on real-world TSP instances from TSPlib, achieving an optimality gap of 0.3% for instances with 500 cities and 0.5% for those with 1000 cities. IDEQ also exhibits lower variance and better scalability compared to DIFUSCO and T2TCO. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper uses a special kind of computer model called diffusion models to solve a problem called the Traveling Salesman Problem. This problem is like trying to find the shortest path that visits many places and then returns to where you started. The researchers made a new model called IDEQ, which helps them get better answers by using some specific rules about how the paths should be connected. They tested their model on some fake problems and found it worked well. Then they tested it on real-world problems and it did even better! It was almost as good as the best way people have been solving this problem for a long time, and it got better answers than some other computer models. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Curriculum learning » Diffusion » Diffusion model » Neural network
