{"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/travel-the-same-path-a-novel-tsp-solving","title":"Travel the Same Path: A Novel TSP Solving Strategy","arxiv_id":"2210.05906","date":"2022-10-12","proceeding":null,"authors":["Pingbang Hu"],"abstract":"In this paper, we provide a novel strategy for solving Traveling Salesman Problem, which is a famous combinatorial optimization problem studied intensely in the TCS community. In particular, we consider the imitation learning framework, which helps a deterministic algorithm making good choices whenever it needs to, resulting in a speed up while maintaining the exactness of the solution without suffering from the unpredictability and a potential large deviation. Furthermore, we demonstrate a strong generalization ability of a graph neural network trained under the imitation learning framework. Specifically, the model is capable of solving a large instance of TSP faster than the baseline while has only seen small TSP instances when training.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05906v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.05906v1.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":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"travel-the-same-path-a-novel-tsp-solving","repo_url":"https://github.com/sleepymalc/Travel-the-Same-Path","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"combinatorial-optimization","task_name":"Combinatorial Optimization"},{"task_slug":"graph-neural-network","task_name":"Graph Neural Network"},{"task_slug":"imitation-learning","task_name":"Imitation Learning"},{"task_slug":"traveling-salesman-problem","task_name":"Traveling Salesman Problem"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"gcn","method_name":"GCN"},{"method_slug":"graph-neural-network","method_name":"Graph Neural Network"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}