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Pointerformer: Deep Reinforced Multi-Pointer Transformer for the Traveling Salesman Problem
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Measured effects reported in the paper
| What was changed | Where | Measured | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| add feature augmentation (ablation) | Pointerformer · TSP_random200 | Len: 10.813 -> 10.793 | Helped |
| add enhanced context embedding (ablation) | Pointerformer · TSP_random200 | Len: 11.013 -> 10.793 | Helped |
| add multi-pointer network (ablation) | Pointerformer · TSP_random200 | Len: 10.797 -> 10.793 | Helped |
| use clipping value C ≤ 10, encouraging exploitation (ablation) | Pointerformer · TSP_random100 and TSP_random200 | solution quality | Hurt |
| use clipping value C ≥ 50 rather than C=10 (ablation) | Pointerformer · TSP_random100 and TSP_random200 | solution quality | Helped |
| use Pointerformer rather than Att-GCN+MCTS | TSP solving · TSP_random500 | Len: 16.97 -> 17.14 | Hurt |
| use Pointerformer rather than Att-GCN+MCTS | TSP solving · TSP_random200 | Len: 10.81 -> 10.79 | Helped |
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