{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/combinatorial-optimization-and-machine","title":"Combinatorial Optimization and Machine Learning for Dynamic Inventory Routing","arxiv_id":"2402.04463","date":"2024-02-06","proceeding":null,"authors":["Toni Greif","Louis Bouvier","Christoph M. Flath","Axel Parmentier","Sonja U. K. Rohmer","Thibaut Vidal"],"abstract":"We introduce a combinatorial optimization-enriched machine learning pipeline and a novel learning paradigm to solve inventory routing problems with stochastic demand and dynamic inventory updates. After each inventory update, our approach reduces replenishment and routing decisions to an optimal solution of a capacitated prize-collecting traveling salesman problem for which well-established algorithms exist. Discovering good prize parametrizations is non-trivial; therefore, we have developed a machine learning approach. We evaluate the performance of our pipeline in settings with steady-state and more complex demand patterns. Compared to previous works, the policy generated by our algorithm leads to significant cost savings, achieves lower inference time, and can even leverage contextual information.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04463v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.04463v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"combinatorial-optimization-and-machine","repo_url":"https://github.com/tonigreif/inferopt_dsirp","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"MIT"}}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}