Reinforcement learning adapts diffusion models to large routing problems

ResizeCO fine-tunes on large instances without optimal solution labels and uses GPU beam search to improve inference.

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Barak Itzchak Davidovitch · Eli Meirom · Ethan Fetaya · Gal Chechik

Bar-Ilan University · NVIDIA

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The authors present ResizeCO, a method that uses reinforcement learning to adapt a diffusion model trained on small routing instances to solve large ones.

The authors train a diffusion-based solver on small TSP and CVRP instances using supervised learning on optimal solutions.

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From NVIDIA and Bar-Ilan University

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ResizeCO adapts a diffusion model trained on small routing instances to large TSP and CVRP instances via reinforcement learning, setting a new state of the art for short run times.

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