Summary of Learning to Deliver: a Foundation Model For the Montreal Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem, by Samuel J. K. Chin et al.
Learning to Deliver: a Foundation Model for the Montreal Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem
by Samuel J. K. Chin, Matthias Winkenbach, Akash Srivastava
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Optimization and Control (math.OC)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel Deep Learning (DL) model called the Foundation Model for the Montreal Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (FM-MCVRP) is presented in this paper. The FM-MCVRP approximates high-quality solutions to a variant of the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP), which characterizes many real-world applications. By framing the MCVRP as an analogous Natural Language Processing (NLP) task, our work leverages a Transformer architecture embedded in a Large Language Model (LLM) framework to train the model in a supervised manner on computationally inexpensive, sub-optimal MCVRP solutions obtained algorithmically. The results show that FM-MCVRP produces better MCVRP solutions than the training data and generalizes to larger sized problem instances not seen during training. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new computer program is created to help solve problems with delivery routes. This program uses special machine learning techniques to figure out the best route for a group of vehicles to follow when they need to deliver packages to different places. The program is tested and shown to work well on big problems too! It’s better than some other methods that are already used, even though it was trained using simpler solutions. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Deep learning * Large language model * Machine learning * Natural language processing * Nlp * Supervised * Transformer
