arXiv:2505.04558cs.LGcs.AI2025-05

发现最优解的局部稀疏性规律,提升神经网络求解器泛化能力。

Purity Law for Generalizable Neural TSP Solvers

  • 基于最优解的局部稀疏性提出纯度法则,指导模型学习通用模式
  • 新训练方法PUPO使模型在多种规模下求解准确率显著提升
  • 无需额外计算开销,可无缝集成到主流神经求解器中

神经方法在不同规模和分布下的旅行商问题(TSP)中实现泛化仍面临挑战。核心障碍在于神经网络难以学习识别通用模式并从中推导出最优解的鲁棒原则。本文首次揭示了最优解的基本结构规律——纯度法则(PuLa):边出现频率随周围顶点稀疏度呈指数增长。在多种实例上统计验证,表明全局最优解存在对局部稀疏性的稳定偏好。基于此,我们提出纯度策略优化(PUPO),一种新型训练范式,在解构建过程中显式对齐神经解与PuLa特征,以增强泛化能力。大量实验表明,PUPO可无缝集成至主流神经求解器,显著提升其泛化性能,且推理阶段无额外计算开销。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Achieving generalization in neural approaches across different scales and distributions remains a significant challenge for the Traveling Salesman Problem~(TSP). A key obstacle is that neural networks often fail to learn robust principles for identifying universal patterns and deriving optimal solutions from diverse instances. In this paper, we first uncover Purity Law (PuLa), a fundamental structural principle for optimal TSP solutions, defining that edge prevalence grows exponentially with the sparsity of surrounding vertices. Statistically validated across diverse instances, PuLa reveals a consistent bias toward local sparsity in global optima. Building on this insight, we propose Purity Policy Optimization~(PUPO), a novel training paradigm that explicitly aligns characteristics of neural solutions with PuLa during the solution construction process to enhance generalization. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PUPO can be seamlessly integrated with popular neural solvers, significantly enhancing their generalization performance without incurring additional computational overhead during inference.

TSP神经求解泛化结构规律

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