arXiv:2510.20169cs.LG2025-10中稿 · Frontiers of Compu…

用超图引导搜索,高效求解大规模旅行商问题

Empowering Targeted Neighborhood Search via Hyper Tour for Large-Scale TSP

  • 先聚类后规划,用稀疏热图分组城市为超节点
  • 生成超路径指导初始化与优化,显著缩小搜索空间
  • 在真实与合成数据上优于现有神经方法,规模越大优势越明显

旅行商问题(TSP)是经典的NP难问题,受到学术界和工业界的广泛关注。尽管基于神经网络的方法在求解TSP方面展现出潜力,但在处理大规模实例时仍面临挑战,包括全局热图、边权重或访问矩阵带来的内存限制,高质量初始解生成困难,以及在巨大搜索空间中缺乏有效全局引导。为此,我们提出一种基于超图引导的邻域搜索方法(HyperNS),用于求解大规模TSP实例。受‘先聚类、后规划’策略启发,该方法首先利用稀疏热图将TSP实例划分为若干簇,并将其抽象为超节点,随后生成一条超路径,以指导初始化和优化过程。该方法通过聚焦于与超路径相关的边,显著缩小搜索空间,实现更高效、更有效的优化。在合成与真实世界数据集上的实验表明,该方法在处理大规模实例时显著优于现有神经基方法,对最优解的差距大幅减小。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a classic NP-hard problem that has garnered significant attention from both academia and industry. While neural-based methods have shown promise for solving TSPs, they still face challenges in scaling to larger instances, particularly in memory constraints associated with global heatmaps, edge weights, or access matrices, as well as in generating high-quality initial solutions and insufficient global guidance for efficiently navigating vast search spaces. To address these challenges, we propose a Hyper Tour Guided Neighborhood Search (HyperNS) method for large-scale TSP instances. Inspired by the ``clustering first, route second" strategy, our approach initially divides the TSP instance into clusters using a sparse heatmap graph and abstracts them as supernodes, followed by the generation of a hyper tour to guide both the initialization and optimization processes. This method reduces the search space by focusing on edges relevant to the hyper tour, leading to more efficient and effective optimization. Experimental results on both synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that our approach outperforms existing neural-based methods, particularly in handling larger-scale instances, offering a significant reduction in the gap to the optimal solution.

旅行商问题超图神经优化大规模求解

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