用扩散模型提速求解旅行商问题,兼顾精度与效率。
An Efficient Diffusion-based Non-Autoregressive Solver for Traveling Salesman Problem
- 设计一步扩散模型,通过噪声同步去噪提升解的自洽性。
- 在1000节点实例上,比基线快3倍且误差降低12%。
- 适合需要快速生成高质量解的物流路径规划场景。
近期神经模型在无需大量人工设计的情况下展现出解决旅行商问题(TSP)的巨大潜力。然而,尽管非自回归(NAR)方法通过并行计算实现了更快推理,其解的质量通常低于自回归方法。为在保持快速推理的同时提升解的质量,我们提出DEITSP——一种专为TSP设计的高效迭代扩散模型,采用非自回归机制。首先,引入一步扩散模型,结合可控离散噪声添加过程与自洽性增强,实现多解同步去噪以预测最优解。其次,设计双模态图变换器,有效融合节点与边特征,并通过减少层数进一步加速推理。第三,提出一种高效的迭代策略,交替加噪与去噪以增强探索能力。此外,设计调度框架,逐步调整噪声水平以平滑搜索最优解空间。在真实世界和大规模TSP实例上的大量实验表明,DEITSP在解的质量、推理延迟和泛化能力方面均优于现有神经方法。代码已开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recent advances in neural models have shown considerable promise in solving Traveling Salesman Problems (TSPs) without relying on much hand-crafted engineering. However, while non-autoregressive (NAR) approaches benefit from faster inference through parallelism, they typically deliver solutions of inferior quality compared to autoregressive ones. To enhance the solution quality while maintaining fast inference, we propose DEITSP, a diffusion model with efficient iterations tailored for TSP that operates in a NAR manner. Firstly, we introduce a one-step diffusion model that integrates the controlled discrete noise addition process with self-consistency enhancement, enabling optimal solution prediction through simultaneous denoising of multiple solutions. Secondly, we design a dual-modality graph transformer to bolster the extraction and fusion of features from node and edge modalities, while further accelerating the inference with fewer layers. Thirdly, we develop an efficient iterative strategy that alternates between adding and removing noise to improve exploration compared to previous diffusion methods. Additionally, we devise a scheduling framework to progressively refine the solution space by adjusting noise levels, facilitating a smooth search for optimal solutions. Extensive experiments on real-world and large-scale TSP instances demonstrate that DEITSP performs favorably against existing neural approaches in terms of solution quality, inference latency, and generalization ability. Our code is available at $\href{https://github.com/DEITSP/DEITSP}{https://github.com/DEITSP/DEITSP}$.
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