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MiLoop framework enhances neural combinatorial optimization with selective memory propagation

Researchers have introduced MiLoop, a novel framework for neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) that enhances solution quality and generalization. MiLoop utilizes selective memory propagation within a reinforcement learning (RL) based approach, allowing a shallow policy to learn effective dynamic embeddings without requiring external solution labels or complex training-time pruning. The framework integrates current embeddings with historical memory before attention layers and employs adaptive gated updates for stepwise reuse, demonstrating strong performance across various combinatorial optimization problems with instances ranging from 100 to 10 million nodes. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Changliang Zhou, Yuanyao Chen, Rongsheng Chen, Zhiyun Lin, Zhenkun Wang ·

    MiLoop: Selective Memory Propagation for Neural Combinatorial Optimization

    arXiv:2610.01685v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Constructive neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) has emerged as a promising paradigm that learns to construct solutions to combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) step by step, which reduces reliance on handcrafted rules and …