[HTML][HTML] New inapproximability bounds for TSP

M Karpinski, M Lampis, R Schmied - Journal of Computer and System …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, we study the approximability of the metric Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP)
and prove new explicit inapproximability bounds for that problem. The best up to now known …

The traveling salesman problem: low-dimensionality implies a polynomial time approximation scheme

Y Bartal, LA Gottlieb, R Krauthgamer - … of the forty-fourth annual ACM …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is among the most famous NP-hard optimization
problems. We design for this problem a randomized polynomial-time algorithm that …

Artificial dragonfly algorithm in the Hopfield neural network for optimal Exact Boolean k satisfiability representation

GA Ali, H Abubakar, SAS Alzaeemi, AHM Almawgani… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
This study proposes a novel hybrid computational approach that integrates the artificial
dragonfly algorithm (ADA) with the Hopfield neural network (HNN) to achieve an optimal …

Discrete symbiotic organism search with excellence coefficients and self-escape for traveling salesman problem

Y Wang, YW Wu, N Xu - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Traveling salesman problem (TSP) is one of the well-known NP-hard problems in
combinatorial optimization. The optimal solution of large-scale TSP is difficult to find with …

Approximating the held-karp bound for metric TSP in nearly-linear time

C Chekuri, K Quanrud - 2017 IEEE 58th Annual Symposium on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We give a nearly linear-time randomized approximation scheme for the Held-Karp bound
[22] for Metric-TSP. Formally, given an undirected edge-weighted graph G=(V, ε) on m edges …

An improved approximation algorithm for TSP in the half integral case

AR Karlin, N Klein, SO Gharan - Proceedings of the 52nd Annual ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
We design a 1.49993-approximation algorithm for the metric traveling salesperson problem
(TSP) for instances in which an optimal solution to the subtour linear programming …

TSP tours in cubic graphs: beyond 4/3

J Correa, O Larré, JA Soto - SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 2015 - SIAM
After a sequence of improvements Boyd et al. TSP on cubic and subcubic graphs, Integer
Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, Lecture Notes in Comput. Sci. 6655 …

[PDF][PDF] Improved inapproximability results for the shortest superstring and related problems

M Karpinski, R Schmied - Proceedings of …, 2013 - crpit.scem.westernsydney.edu.au
We develop a new method for proving explicit approximation lower bounds for the Shortest
Superstring problem, the Maximum Compression problem, the Maximum Asymmetric TSP …

On approximation lower bounds for TSP with bounded metrics

M Karpinski, R Schmied - arxiv preprint arxiv:1201.5821, 2012 - arxiv.org
We develop a new method for proving explicit approximation lower bounds for TSP
problems with bounded metrics improving on the best up to now known bounds. They …

Approximating the Held-Karp Bound for Metric TSP in Nearly Linear Work and Polylogarithmic Depth

ZK Koh, O Weinstein… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present a nearly linear work parallel algorithm for approximating the Held-Karp bound
for the Metric TSP problem. Given an edge-weighted undirected graph $ G=(V, E) $ on $ m …