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The Hybrid Reconstruction Framework (HRC), which combines fine-tuning on Shortest Hamiltonian Path Problem instances with large- and small-neighborhood reconstruction, substantially improves the performance of Neural Combinatorial Optimization solvers on large-scale routing problems compared to state-of-the-art strategies. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To overcome performance degradation and topological errors when applying neural combinatorial optimization solvers to reconstruct subproblems in large-scale vehicle routing.

August 30, 2026Machine Learning and Knowledge ExtractionOpen Access

HRC: A Hybrid Reconstruction Framework for Neural Combinatorial Optimization Solvers

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CZChulei Zhang YWYuesong WuJilin University XWXuan Wu

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Computational evaluation demonstrates enhanced solution quality in large-scale vehicle routing problems, indicating hybrid search and targeted fine-tuning resolve neural solver limitations.

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To overcome performance degradation and topological errors when applying neural combinatorial optimization solvers to reconstruct subproblems in large-scale vehicle routing.
Developed the Hybrid Reconstruction Framework (HRC), which fine-tunes neural combinatorial optimization solvers specifically on Shortest Hamiltonian Path Problem instances.
Integrated large-neighborhood random reconstruction using the fine-tuned neural solver with targeted small-neighborhood refinement via 2-opt and kNN-DGR heuristics.
Evaluated performance using two representative neural combinatorial optimization solvers across synthetic and real-world Traveling Salesman Problem and Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem benchmarks.
HRC substantially improved the performance of both evaluated neural solvers on large-scale problem instances.
Achieved superior solution quality compared to existing state-of-the-art reconstruction strategies on both synthetic and real-world datasets.
Ablation experiments confirmed the individual utility and necessity of subproblem fine-tuning, large-neighborhood reconstruction, and heuristic refinement.

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Zhang et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a93f0c06c1a8fb52e79d262 https://doi.org/10.3390/make8090263

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Computational evaluation demonstrates enhanced solution quality in large-scale vehicle routing problems, indicating hybrid search and targeted fine-tuning resolve neural solver limitations.

HRC: A Hybrid Reconstruction Framework for Neural Combinatorial Optimization Solvers

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HRC: A Hybrid Reconstruction Framework for Neural Combinatorial Optimization Solvers

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