3 papers
cs.AI2026
Rethinking Positional Encoding for Neural Vehicle Routing
Chuanbo Hua, Federico Berto, Andre Hottung +8
Transformer-based models have become the dominant paradigm for neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) of vehicle routing problems (VRPs), yet the role of positional encoding (PE)…
cs.AI2025
VRPAgent: LLM-Driven Discovery of Heuristic Operators for Vehicle Routing Problems
André Hottung, Federico Berto, Chuanbo Hua +9
Designing high-performing heuristics for vehicle routing problems (VRPs) is a complex task that requires both intuition and deep domain knowledge. Large language model (LLM)-based…
cs.AI2025
RouteFinder: Towards Foundation Models for Vehicle Routing Problems
Federico Berto, Chuanbo Hua, Nayeli Gast Zepeda +6
This paper introduces RouteFinder, a comprehensive foundation model framework to tackle different Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) variants. Our core idea is that a foundation model f…