提出分层图划分框架,解决大规模车辆路径问题中的误差累积难题。
Hierarchical Learning-based Graph Partition for Large-scale Vehicle Routing Problems
- 分层设计:先粗分后细分,逐步分解为可管理的子任务
- 多级局部划分缓解误差传播,提升整体求解稳定性
- 兼容强化学习与监督学习,适用于各类容量限制路径问题
基于神经网络的分解求解方法在一般车辆路径问题(VRP)及容量限制车辆路径问题(CVRP)中,通过全局划分与局部构造相结合来增强泛化能力。然而,在全局划分阶段,子图内的错误聚类会随着学习型划分策略的多步解码过程逐步累积,导致即使局部构造最优,整体系统性能仍大幅下降。为此,我们提出一种通用的分层学习型图划分(HLGP)框架,专为优化CVRP实例的划分而设计,通过协同整合全局与局部划分策略实现改进。具体而言,全局划分策略生成粗粒度的多路划分,并形成一系列更简单的两路划分子任务;这些子任务启动后续K个局部划分层级。在每个层级上,仅该层级的任务被分配给局部划分策略,利用对局部拓扑特征不敏感的优势,逐步减轻累积误差。该框架具有通用性,其划分策略在统一目标下可兼容强化学习(RL)与监督学习(SL),从而实现高效、稳定的求解。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Neural solvers based on the divide-and-conquer approach for Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs) in general, and capacitated VRP (CVRP) in particular, integrates the global partition of an instance with local constructions for each subproblem to enhance generalization. However, during the global partition phase, misclusterings within subgraphs have a tendency to progressively compound throughout the multi-step decoding process of the learning-based partition policy. This suboptimal behavior in the global partition phase, in turn, may lead to a dramatic deterioration in the performance of the overall decomposition-based system, despite using optimal local constructions. To address these challenges, we propose a versatile Hierarchical Learning-based Graph Partition (HLGP) framework, which is tailored to benefit the partition of CVRP instances by synergistically integrating global and local partition policies. Specifically, the global partition policy is tasked with creating the coarse multi-way partition to generate the sequence of simpler two-way partition subtasks. These subtasks mark the initiation of the subsequent K local partition levels. At each local partition level, subtasks exclusive for this level are assigned to the local partition policy which benefits from the insensitive local topological features to incrementally alleviate the compounded errors. This framework is versatile in the sense that it optimizes the involved partition policies towards a unified objective harmoniously compatible with both reinforcement learning (RL) and supervised learning (SL). (*Due to the notification of arXiv "The Abstract field cannot be longer than 1,920 characters", the appeared Abstract is shortened. For the full Abstract, please download the Article.)
Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品;中文卡片由大模型生成,请以原文为准。