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READY: Reward Discovery for Meta-Black-Box Optimization
Zechuan Huang, Zhiguang Cao, Hongshu Guo +2
Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) is an emerging avenue within Optimization community, where algorithm design policy could be meta-learned by reinforcement learning to enhance…
Probing Neural Combinatorial Optimization Models
Zhiqin Zhang, Yining Ma, Zhiguang Cao +1
Neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) has achieved remarkable performance, yet its learned model representations and decision rationale remain a black box. This impedes both acad…
Instance Generation for Meta-Black-Box Optimization through Latent Space Reverse Engineering
Chen Wang, Yue-Jiao Gong, Zhiguang Cao +1
To relieve intensive human-expertise required to design optimization algorithms, recent Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) researches leverage generalization strength of meta-le…
Generalizable Heuristic Generation Through LLMs with Meta-Optimization
Yiding Shi, Jianan Zhou, Wen Song +4
Heuristic design with large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a promising approach for tackling combinatorial optimization problems (COPs). However, existing approaches often r…
Surrogate Learning in Meta-Black-Box Optimization: A Preliminary Study
Zeyuan Ma, Zhiyang Huang, Jiacheng Chen +2
Recent Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) approaches have shown possibility of enhancing the optimization performance through learning meta-level policies to dynamically configu…
Diversity Optimization for Travelling Salesman Problem via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Qi Li, Zhiguang Cao, Yining Ma +2
Existing neural methods for the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) mostly aim at finding a single optimal solution. To discover diverse yet high-quality solutions for Multi-Solution…
ConfigX: Modular Configuration for Evolutionary Algorithms via Multitask Reinforcement Learning
Hongshu Guo, Zeyuan Ma, Jiacheng Chen +4
Recent advances in Meta-learning for Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) have shown the potential of using neural networks to dynamically configure evolutionary algorithms (EAs), enha…
Hierarchical Neural Constructive Solver for Real-world TSP Scenarios
Yong Liang Goh, Zhiguang Cao, Yining Ma +3
Existing neural constructive solvers for routing problems have predominantly employed transformer architectures, conceptualizing the route construction as a set-to-sequence learnin…
Learning to Search Feasible and Infeasible Regions of Routing Problems with Flexible Neural k-Opt
Yining Ma, Zhiguang Cao, Yeow Meng Chee
In this paper, we present Neural k-Opt (NeuOpt), a novel learning-to-search (L2S) solver for routing problems. It learns to perform flexible k-opt exchanges based on a tailored act…
MetaBox: A Benchmark Platform for Meta-Black-Box Optimization with Reinforcement Learning
Zeyuan Ma, Hongshu Guo, Jiacheng Chen +5
Recently, Meta-Black-Box Optimization with Reinforcement Learning (MetaBBO-RL) has showcased the power of leveraging RL at the meta-level to mitigate manual fine-tuning of low-leve…
Efficient Meta Neural Heuristic for Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization
Jinbiao Chen, Jiahai Wang, Zizhen Zhang +3
Recently, neural heuristics based on deep reinforcement learning have exhibited promise in solving multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems (MOCOPs). However, they are s…
Neural Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization with Diversity Enhancement
Jinbiao Chen, Zizhen Zhang, Zhiguang Cao +4
Most of existing neural methods for multi-objective combinatorial optimization (MOCO) problems solely rely on decomposition, which often leads to repetitive solutions for the respe…