Towards Foundation Models for Vehicle Routing Problems
- Oct 2024: The latest version of RouteFinder has been released! We have added the latest contributions from our preprint and much improved codebase
- Jul 2024: RouteFinder has been accepted as an Oral presentatation at the ICML 2024 FM-Wild Workshop!
Install the package in editable mode:
pip install -e .
If you would like to install all dependencies including optional solvers, please install using pip install -e '.[dev,solver]'
We recommend exploring this quickstart notebook to get started with the RouteFinder
codebase!
Data may be generated by running the following command:
python generate_data.py
and will be saved under the data/
directory. Note that if data is generated correctly, the BKS solutions from PyVRP will automatically be loaded and you will be able to see the gaps as well while training and testing.
The main runner (example here of main baseline) can be called via:
python run.py experiment=main/rf/rf-transformer-100
You may change the experiment by using the experiment=YOUR_EXP
, with the path under configs/experiment
directory.
You may use the provided test function:
python test.py --checkpoint checkpoints/100/rf-transformer.ckpt
or with additional parameters:
usage: test.py [-h] --checkpoint CHECKPOINT [--problem PROBLEM] [--size SIZE] [--datasets DATASETS] [--batch_size BATCH_SIZE]
[--device DEVICE] [--remove-mixed-backhaul | --no-remove-mixed-backhaul]
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--checkpoint CHECKPOINT
Path to the model checkpoint
--problem PROBLEM Problem name: cvrp, vrptw, etc. or all
--size SIZE Problem size: 50, 100, for automatic loading
--datasets DATASETS Filename of the dataset(s) to evaluate. Defaults to all under data/{problem}/ dir
--batch_size BATCH_SIZE
--device DEVICE
--remove-mixed-backhaul, --no-remove-mixed-backhaul
Remove mixed backhaul instances. Use --no-remove-mixed-backhaul to keep them. (default: True)
We also have a notebook to automatically download and test models on the CVRPLIB here!
The main
experiments on 100 nodes are (rf=RouteFinder) RF-TE: rf/rf-transformer-100
, RF-POMO: rf/rf-100
, RF-MoE: rf/rf-moe-100
, MTPOMO mtpomo-100
and MVMoE mvmoe-100
. You may substitute 50
instead for 50 nodes. Note that we separate 50 and 100 because we created an automatic validation dataset reporting for all variants at different sizes (i.e. here).
Note that additional Hydra options as described here. For instance, you can add +trainer.devices="[0]"
to run on a specific GPU (i.e., GPU 0).
Other configs are available under configs/experiment directory.
To run EAL, you may use the following command:
python run_eal.py
with the following parameters:
usage: run_eal.py [-h] [--model_type MODEL_TYPE]
[--experiment EXPERIMENT]
[--checkpoint CHECKPOINT]
[--lr LR] [--num_runs NUM_RUNS]
options:
-h, --help show this help message
and exit
--model_type MODEL_TYPE
Model type: rf, mvmoe,
mtpomo
--experiment EXPERIMENT
--checkpoint CHECKPOINT
--lr LR
--num_runs NUM_RUNS
with additional parameters that can be found in the eal.py file.
We consider 24 variants, which include the base Capacity (C). The
We have the following environments available:
Capacity (C) |
Open Route (O) |
Backhaul (B) |
Mixed (M) |
Duration Limit (L) |
Time Windows (TW) |
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVRP | ✔ | |||||
OVRP | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
VRPB | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
VRPL | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
VRPTW | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
OVRPTW | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||
OVRPB | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||
OVRPL | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||
VRPBL | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||
VRPBTW | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||
VRPLTW | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||
OVRPBL | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
OVRPBTW | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
OVRPLTW | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
VRPBLTW | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
OVRPBLTW | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
VRPMB | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||
OVRPMB | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
VRPMBL | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
VRPMBTW | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
OVRPMBL | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
OVRPMBTW | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
VRPMBLTW | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
OVRPMBLTW | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
We additionally provide as baseline solvers for all baselines 1) OR-Tools and 2) the SotA PyVRP.
- For some reason, there seem to be bugs when training on M series processors from Apple (but not during inference somehow?). We recommend training with a discrete GPU. We'll keep you posted with updates!
- https://github.com/FeiLiu36/MTNCO/tree/main
- https://github.com/RoyalSkye/Routing-MVMoE
- https://github.com/yd-kwon/POMO
- https://github.com/ai4co/rl4co
If you find RouteFinder valuable for your research or applied projects:
@inproceedings{berto2024routefinder,
title={{RouteFinder}: Towards Foundation Models for Vehicle Routing Problems},
author={Berto, Federico and Hua, Chuanbo and Zepeda, Nayeli Gast and Hottung, Andr{\'e} and Wouda, Niels and Lan, Leon and Tierney, Kevin and Park, Jinkyoo},
booktitle={ICML 2024 Workshop on Foundation Models in the Wild (Oral)},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=hCiaiZ6e4G},
note={\url{https://github.com/ai4co/routefinder}}
}