arXiv:2508.08718cs.LGcs.AI2025-08

用生成模型训练神经网络,让旅行商问题求解更抗分布偏移。

Generative Modeling for Robust Deep Reinforcement Learning on the Traveling Salesman Problem

  • 通过生成式采样构建训练数据,覆盖更广的TSP分布
  • 在真实分布数据集TSPLib50上显著提升最差情况性能
  • 适合需要鲁棒求解器的物流动态调度场景

旅行商问题(TSP)是经典的NP难组合优化任务,广泛应用于实际场景。传统启发式算法对小规模实例表现良好,但大规模时计算不可行。现实物流中的动态末端配送重路由需求催生了对快速推理的求解器,促使研究者探索专用神经网络求解器。然而,现有神经网络在训练数据外泛化能力差,尤其在某些现实中合理的TSP分布下表现极差。为此,本文提出组合优化生成采样(COGS),通过从生成式TSP模型中采样训练数据,提升训练分布的覆盖度与插值能力。我们还构建了TSPLib50数据集,包含真实分布的TSP样本,用于评估真实世界泛化能力。在多个合成数据集及TSPLib50上的实验表明,COGS显著提升了分布鲁棒性,性能提升主要来自最差情况下的改善。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a classic NP-hard combinatorial optimization task with numerous practical applications. Classic heuristic solvers can attain near-optimal performance for small problem instances, but become computationally intractable for larger problems. Real-world logistics problems such as dynamically re-routing last-mile deliveries demand a solver with fast inference time, which has led researchers to investigate specialized neural network solvers. However, neural networks struggle to generalize beyond the synthetic data they were trained on. In particular, we show that there exist TSP distributions that are realistic in practice, which also consistently lead to poor worst-case performance for existing neural approaches. To address this issue of distribution robustness, we present Combinatorial Optimization with Generative Sampling (COGS), where training data is sampled from a generative TSP model. We show that COGS provides better data coverage and interpolation in the space of TSP training distributions. We also present TSPLib50, a dataset of realistically distributed TSP samples, which tests real-world generalization ability without conflating this issue with instance size. We evaluate our method on various synthetic datasets as well as TSPLib50, and compare to state-of-the-art neural baselines. We demonstrate that COGS improves distribution robustness, with most performance gains coming from worst-case scenarios.

强化学习组合优化生成模型鲁棒性

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