2 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
Neural Deconstruction Search for Vehicle Routing Problems
André Hottung, Paula Wong-Chung, Kevin Tierney
Autoregressive construction approaches generate solutions to vehicle routing problems in a step-by-step fashion, leading to high-quality solutions that are nearing the performance…