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Clearing the Combinatorial Fog: Tracing the Hidden Paths of TSP Heuristics

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Over decades of Traveling Salesperson Problem (TSP) research, powerful heuristics have been developed that efficiently solve many TSP instances. Among them, the local search optimizer LKH and the genetic algorithm EAX stand out as the two complementary state-of-the-art solvers. Yet, the links between instance structures and solver complementarity remain obscure, i.e., it is often unclear how instance structures affect solver performance and behavior.

DOI: 10.1145/3729878.3746623

Authors: Jonathan Heins, Sebastian Dengel, Darrell Whitley, Pascal Kerschke

Institutions: Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, Fakultät Verkehrswissenschaften "Friedrich List", Technische Universität Dresden, Colorado State University

Language: English

Topic: Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods

Subfield: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

OpenAlex ID: W4413311575

FWCI: 5.052

Cites: 28

Cited by: 2

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