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The proposed DR-ALNS method leverages Deep Reinforcement Learning to dynamically select operators, adjust destroy severity, and control the acceptance criterion within the Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search (ALNS) algorithm, leading to more effective solutions for combinatorial optimization problems.
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The content discusses the development of a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based approach called DR-ALNS that aims to enhance the performance of the Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search (ALNS) algorithm for solving combinatorial optimization problems.
Key highlights:
- ALNS is a popular metaheuristic for solving large-scale planning and scheduling problems, but its performance relies on the proper configuration of selection and acceptance parameters, which is a complex and resource-intensive task.
- To address this, the authors propose DR-ALNS, which integrates DRL into ALNS to learn operator selection, destroy severity parameter, and acceptance criterion control during the search process.
- The authors evaluate DR-ALNS on the Orienteering Problem with Stochastic Weights and Time Windows (OPSWTW), a challenging problem used in the IJCAI AI4TSP competition.
- Results show that DR-ALNS outperforms vanilla ALNS, ALNS tuned with Bayesian optimization, and two state-of-the-art DRL-based competition-winning methods, while requiring significantly fewer training observations.
- The authors also demonstrate that the learned policies by DR-ALNS can be effectively applied to solve different routing problems, such as CVRP, TSP, and mTSP, without retraining.
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