MVMoE: Multi-Task Vehicle Routing Solver with Mixture-of-Experts
<|reference_start|>MVMoE: Multi-Task Vehicle Routing Solver with Mixture-of-Experts: Learning to solve vehicle routing problems (VRPs) has garnered much attention. However, most neural solvers are only structured and trained independently on a specific problem, making them less generic and practical. In this paper, we aim to develop a unified neural solver that can cope with a range of VRP variants simultaneously. Specifically, we propose a multi-task vehicle routing solver with mixture-of-experts (MVMoE), which greatly enhances the model capacity without a proportional increase in computation. We further develop a hierarchical gating mechanism for the MVMoE, delivering a good trade-off between empirical performance and computational complexity. Experimentally, our method significantly promotes zero-shot generalization performance on 10 unseen VRP variants, and showcases decent results on the few-shot setting and real-world benchmark instances. We further conduct extensive studies on the effect of MoE configurations in solving VRPs, and observe the superiority of hierarchical gating when facing out-of-distribution data. The source code is available at: https://github.com/RoyalSkye/Routing-MVMoE.<|reference_end|>
@article{zhou2024mvmoe:,
    title={MVMoE: Multi-Task Vehicle Routing Solver with Mixture-of-Experts},
    author={Jianan Zhou, Zhiguang Cao, Yaoxin Wu, Wen Song, Yining Ma, Jie Zhang,
  Chi Xu},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.01029},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2405.01029},
    primaryClass={cs.AI cs.LG}
}