Show HN: Per-instance TSP Solver with No Pre-training (1.66% gap on d1291)

21 pointsposted 3 days ago
by jivaprime

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4 Comments

whatever1

2 days ago

Sorry if I am harsh, but a 1200 node tsp problem is a toy problem. We can find proven optimal solutions to these in a fraction of the time you spent.

RL is probably best suited for uncertainty infected instances.

whatever1

15 hours ago

Out of curiosity I solved it with the concorde solver in the Neos server.

In 58s its heuristic found a solution 0.037% away from optimal, and in 943s it found and proved the optimal solution.

(This is with 3GB of ram and 4 threads of an Intel Xeon E5-2698 @ 2.3GHz aka a 30yo algorithm on a 10 yo machine)