2 papers
cs.NE2026
Beyond Static Priors: Dynamic Neural Guidance for Large-Scale Ant Colony Optimization
Dat Thanh Tran, Van Khu Vu, Yining Ma
Neural-guided Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) suffers from a fundamental training-inference misalignment: policies are typically trained to generate static priors (e.g., heatmaps), y…
cs.NE2025
NeuFACO: Neural Focused Ant Colony Optimization for Traveling Salesman Problem
Dat Thanh Tran, Khai Quang Tran, Khoi Anh Pham +2
This study presents Neural Focused Ant Colony Optimization (NeuFACO), a non-autoregressive framework for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) that combines advanced reinforcement l…