Combinatorial Optimization and Reasoning with Graph Neural Networks

Abstract

Combinatorial optimization is a well-established area in operations research and computer science. Until recently, its methods have mostly focused on solving problem instances in isolation, ignoring the fact that they often stem from related data distributions in practice. However, recent years have seen a surge of interest in using machine learning, especially graph neural networks, as a key building block for combinatorial tasks, either directly as solvers or by enhancing the former. This paper presents a conceptual review of recent key advancements in this emerging field, aiming at researchers in both optimization and machine learning.

Cite

Text

Cappart et al. "Combinatorial Optimization and Reasoning with Graph Neural Networks." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021. doi:10.24963/IJCAI.2021/595

Markdown

[Cappart et al. "Combinatorial Optimization and Reasoning with Graph Neural Networks." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2021/cappart2021ijcai-combinatorial/) doi:10.24963/IJCAI.2021/595

BibTeX

@inproceedings{cappart2021ijcai-combinatorial,
  title     = {{Combinatorial Optimization and Reasoning with Graph Neural Networks}},
  author    = {Cappart, Quentin and Chételat, Didier and Khalil, Elias B. and Lodi, Andrea and Morris, Christopher and Velickovic, Petar},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2021},
  pages     = {4348-4355},
  doi       = {10.24963/IJCAI.2021/595},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2021/cappart2021ijcai-combinatorial/}
}