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Vehicle routing systems face scaling bottlenecks beyond algorithms

A user experimenting with scaling vehicle routing problems to approximately one million stops discovered that system architecture, rather than the routing algorithm itself, became the primary bottleneck. Key factors influencing performance included constraint-aware clustering, bounding route optimization costs, managing inconsistencies at cluster boundaries, and efficient distance computation. The user observed near-linear scaling, which was unexpected for this type of problem, and sought insights from others who have encountered similar challenges. AI

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RANK_REASON User-submitted research post on a technical challenge in scaling a specific type of optimization problem.

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  1. r/MachineLearning TIER_1 · /u/Tight_Cow_5438 ·

    What actually breaks when you try to scale vehicle routing to ~1M stops? [R]

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I’ve been experimenting with scaling last-mile routing problems beyond typical sizes (tens of thousands of stops).</p> <p>Something interesting I ran into:</p> <p>At some point, the bottleneck stops being the routing algorithm itself and becomes …