JAMPR+/L2D: scalable neural heuristic for constrained vehicle routing problems in dynamic environment

Abstract:The vehicle routing problems with real-world constraints (we consider vehicles capacity limits, time windows constrains, pickup-and-delivery multi-depo --- CPDPTW) pose significant computational challenges. While classical exact and heuristic methods remain effective to solve problems of small/medium size ($N\lesssim100$), they often lack adaptability and scalability for larger logistics tasks. In this work, we show how JAMPR+/L2D RL deep learning model, proposed in to solve large CPDPTW problems can be adopted in the case of substantial changes of graph distance matrix. We test performance of JAMPR+/L2D model for medium-sized CVRP and VRPTW problems on CVRPLIB benchmarks: JAMPR+/L2D outperforms the state-of-the-art heuristic HGS in over 85\% of instances, achieving improvement in objective gap. We show that the JAMPR+/L2D model trained on CPDPTW problem, generalizes well for tasks with simpler constraints (CVRP, VRPTW), for different problem sizes and for moderate changes in distance matrixes. For more substantial changes in distance matrixes, we propose here to make fast finetuning of JAMPR+: on ORTEC data (for CPDPTW) the proposed strategy remarkably reduces the objective gap without full model retraining, what will give both accuracy and rapid inference of the model in the practical routing scenarios with distance matrix changes.

Machine Learning (cs.LG)

arXiv:2609.26275 [cs.LG]

(or arXiv:2609.26275v1 [cs.LG] for this version)

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