Summary of Udc: a Unified Neural Divide-and-conquer Framework For Large-scale Combinatorial Optimization Problems, by Zhi Zheng et al.
UDC: A Unified Neural Divide-and-Conquer Framework for Large-Scale Combinatorial Optimization Problems
by Zhi Zheng, Changliang Zhou, Tong Xialiang, Mingxuan Yuan, Zhenkun Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
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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 unified neural divide-and-conquer framework, UDC, addresses the limitations of previous two-stage methods for large-scale combinatorial optimization problems. By developing a Divide-Conquer-Reunion (DCR) training method, UDC eliminates the negative impact of sub-optimal dividing policies and achieves superior performance in 10 representative large-scale CO problems. The framework employs a high-efficiency Graph Neural Network (GNN) for global instance dividing and a fixed-length sub-path solver for conquering divided sub-problems. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper presents a new approach to solving large-scale combinatorial optimization problems, which can be used in various fields such as logistics, finance, or manufacturing. The method uses a combination of machine learning and divide-and-conquer strategies to find the best solution. This is an important problem because many real-world problems involve finding the optimal solution from a large number of possibilities. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Gnn » Graph neural network » Machine learning » Optimization
