Summary of Goal: a Generalist Combinatorial Optimization Agent Learner, by Darko Drakulic et al.
GOAL: A Generalist Combinatorial Optimization Agent Learner
by Darko Drakulic, Sofia Michel, Jean-Marc Andreoli
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed GOAL (Generalist combinatorial Optimization Agent Learner) model efficiently solves multiple hard combinatorial optimization problems (COPs), including routing, scheduling, and graph-based problems. Unlike specialized models that require re-training for each problem, GOAL’s single backbone is combined with light-weight adapters for input and output processing, allowing it to be fine-tuned for new COPs. The backbone uses mixed-attention blocks for handling graph-based features and a novel multi-type transformer architecture for heterogeneous node or edge types. While slightly inferior to specialized baselines, GOAL demonstrates strong transfer learning capacity by achieving good performance on new problems. This generalist model has the potential to significantly improve solving times and reduce training data requirements. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary GOAL is a special kind of computer program that can help solve many different complex math problems at once. These kinds of problems are called combinatorial optimization problems, or COPs for short. Before GOAL, people had to create separate programs for each type of problem they wanted to solve. This was time-consuming and required a lot of data. GOAL is designed to be more efficient and flexible. It uses a single “backbone” that can be adapted to different types of problems with special “adapters.” This allows it to learn from solving one type of problem and then apply what it learned to solve similar but new problems. GOAL has been shown to work well on a variety of problems, including those involving routing, scheduling, and graph theory. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Attention * Optimization * Transfer learning * Transformer
