Title
Solving NP-Hard Problems on Graphs by Reinforcement Learning without Domain Knowledge.
Abstract
We propose an algorithm based on reinforcement learning for solving NP-hard problems on graphs. We combine Graph Isomorphism Networks and the Monte-Carlo Tree Search, which was originally used for game searches, for solving combinatorial optimization on graphs. Similarly to AlphaGo Zero, our method does not require any problem-specific knowledge or labeled datasets (exact solutions), which are difficult to calculate in principle. We show that our method, which is trained by generated random graphs, successfully finds near-optimal solutions for the Maximum Independent Set problem on citation networks. Experiments illustrate that the performance of our method is comparable to SOTA solvers, but we do not require any problem-specific reduction rules, which is highly desirable in practice since collecting hand-crafted reduction rules is costly and not adaptive for a wide range of problems.
Year
Venue
DocType
2019
arXiv: Learning
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1905.11623
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kenshin Abe100.34
Zijian Xu231.12
Issei Sato333141.59
Masashi Sugiyama43353264.24