Multi-armed Bandit and Backbone boost Lin-Kernighan-Helsgaun Algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problems

Long Wang, Jiongzhi Zheng, Zhengda Xiong +1

The Lin-Kernighan-Helsguan (LKH) heuristic is a classic local search algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). LKH introduces an $\hat{I}\pm$-value to replace the traditional dis…