Compressed routing instances provide fast, strong starts for large solvers

A training-free component builds initial solutions in a compact surrogate space, then maps them back for limited refinement.

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Jiale Zhao · Sirui Mao · Zimu Chen · Wentao Yang · Zihan Wang · Xuefeng Huang · +2 more

Beihang University

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The authors developed Just Initialize, a training-free and solver-agnostic initialization component.

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Compressing routing instances before optimization produces refinement-friendly starts that match or beat leading solution quality at far lower computational cost.

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