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1 Travelling Salesman Problem Algorithms and Networks 2015/2016 Hans L. Bodlaender Johan M. M. van Rooij 1
2 Contents TSP and its applications Heuristics and approximation algorithms Construction heuristics, a.o.: Christofides, insertion heuristics Improvement heuristics, a.o.: 2-opt, 3-opt, Lin-Kernighan Exact algorithms 2
3 Travelling Salesman Problem Algorithms and Networks PROBLEM DEFINITION APPLICATIONS 3
4 Problem Instance: n vertices (cities), distance between every pair of vertices. Question: Find shortest (simple) cycle that visits every city?
5 Applications Pickup and delivery problems Robotics Board drilling / chip manufacturing Lift scheduling 5
6 Assumptions / Problem Variants Complete graph vs underlying graph structure. Complete graph: a given distance between all pairs of cities. Directed edges vs undirected arcs. Undirected: symmetric: w(u,v) = w(v,u). Directed: not symmetric. Asymmetric examples: painting/chip machine application. Lengths: Lengths are non-negative (or positive). Triangle inequality: for all x, y, z: w(x,y) + w(y,z) w(x,z) Different assumptions lead to different problems. 6
7 NP-complete Instance: cities, distances, k. Question: is there a TSP-tour of length at most k? Is an NP-complete problem. Relation with Hamiltonian Circuit problem. 7
8 If triangle inequality does not hold Theorem: If P NP, then there is no polynomial time algorithm for TSP without triangle inequality that approximates within a ratio c, for any constant c. Proof: Suppose there is such an algorithm A. We build a polynomial time algorithm for Hamiltonian Circuit (giving a contradiction): Take instance G=(V,E) of Hamiltonian Circuit. Build instance of TSP: A city for each v V. If (v,w) E, then d(v,w) = 1, otherwise d(v,w) = nc+1. A finds a tour with distance at most nc, if and only if, G has a Hamiltonian circuit. 8
9 Travelling Salesman Problem Algorithms and Networks CONSTRUCTION HEURISTICS 9
10 Heuristics and approximations Construction heuristics: A tour is built from nothing. Improvement heuristics: Start with `some tour, and continue to change it into a better one as long as possible 10
11 1 st Construction Heuristic: Nearest neighbor Start at some vertex s; v=s; While not all vertices visited Select closest unvisited neighbor w of v Go from v to w; v=w Go from v to s. Without triangle inequality: Approximation ratio arbitrarily bad. With triangle inequality: Approximation ratio O(log n). 11
12 2 nd Construction Heuristic: Heuristic with ratio 2 Find a minimum spanning tree Report vertices of tree in preorder Preorder: visit a node before its children Approximation ratio 2 (with triangle inequality): OPT MST 2 MST Result Result / OPT 2MST / MST = 2 12
13 3 rd Construction Heuristic: Christofides 1. Make a Minimum Spanning Tree T. 2. Set W = {v v has odd degree in tree T}. 3. Compute a minimum weight matching M in the graph G[W]. 4. Look at the graph T+M. Note that T+M is Eulerian! 5. Compute an Euler tour C in T+M. 6. Add shortcuts to C to get a TSP-tour. 13
14 Ratio 1.5 Total length edges in T: at most OPT Total length edges in matching M: at most OPT/2. T+M has length at most 3/2 OPT. Use D-inequality. 14
15 4 th Construction Heuristic: Closest insertion heuristic Build tour by starting with one vertex, and inserting vertices one by one. Always insert vertex that is closest to a vertex already in tour. 15
16 Closest insertion heuristic has performance ratio 2 Build tree T: if v is added to tour, add to T edge from v to closest vertex on tour. T is a Minimum Spanning Tree (Prim s algorithm). Total length of T OPT. Length of tour 2* length of T. 16
17 Many variants Closest insertion: insert vertex closest to vertex in the tour. Farthest insertion: insert vertex whose minimum distance to a node on the cycle is maximum. Cheapest insertion: insert the node that can be inserted with minimum increase in cost. Gives also ratio 2. Computationally expensive. Random insertion: randomly select a vertex. Each time: insert vertex at position that gives minimum increase of tour length. 17
18 5 th Construction Heuristic: Cycle merging heuristic Start with n cycles of length 1. Repeat: Find two cycles with minimum distance. Merge them into one cycle. Until 1 cycle with n vertices. This has ratio 2: compare with algorithm of Kruskal for MST. 18
19 6 th Construction Heuristic: Savings heuristic Cycle merging heuristic where we merge tours that provide the largest savings : Saving for a merge: merge with the smallest additional cost / largest savings. 19
20 Some test results In an overview paper, Junger et al. report on tests on set of instances ( vertices; city-generated TSP benchmarks) Nearest neighbor: 24% away from optimal in average Closest insertion: 20%; Farthest insertion: 10%; Cheapest insertion: 17%; Random Insertion: 11%; Preorder of min spanning trees: 38%; Christofides: 19% with improvement 11% / 10%; Savings method: 10% (and fast). 20
21 Travelling Salesman Problem Algorithms and Networks IMPROVEMENT HEURISTICS 21
22 Improvement heuristics Start with a tour (e.g., from heuristic) and improve it stepwise 2-Opt 3-Opt K-Opt Lin-Kernighan Iterated LK Simulated annealing, Iterative improvement Local search 22
23 Scheme Rule that modifies solution to different solution While there is a Rule(sol, sol ) with sol a better solution than sol Take sol instead of sol Cost decrease Stuck in `local minimum Can use exponential time in theory 23
24 Very simple Node insertion: Take a vertex v and put it in a different spot in the tour. Edge insertion: Take two successive vertices v, w and put these as edge somewhere else in the tour. 24
25 2-opt Take two edges (v,w) and (x,y) and replace them by (v,x) and (w,y) if this improves the tour. Costly: part of tour should be turned around. On R 2 : get rid of crossings of tour. 25
26 2-Opt improvements Reversing shorter part of the tour. We need a direction on the tour to decide what reconnect option leads to subtours. Postpone correcting tour. Clever search to improving moves. Restrict distance function evaluations. Prove that you do not need to consider some potential 2-opt moves, because these were not improving in earlier steps. Look only to subset of candidate improvements. Combine with node insertion. 26
27 3-opt Choose three edges from tour Remove them, and combine the three parts to a tour in the cheapest way to link them 27
28 3-opt Costly to find 3-opt improvements: O(n 3 ) candidates k-opt: generalizes 3-opt 28
29 Lin-Kernighan Idea: modifications that are bad can lead to enable something good Tour modification: Collection of simple changes Some increase length Total set of changes decreases length 29
30 Lin-Kernighan One LK step: Make sets of edges X = {x 1,, x r }, Y = {y 1,,y r } If we replace X by Y in tour then we have another tour Sets are built stepwise Repeated until Variants on scheme possible 30
31 One Lin-Kernighan step Choose vertex t 1, and edge x 1 = (t 1,t 2 ) from tour. i=1. Choose edge y 1 =(t 2, t 3 ) not in tour with g 1 = w(x 1 ) w(y 1 ) > 0 (or, as large as possible). Repeat a number of times, or until i++; Choose edge x i = (t 2i-1,t 2i ) from tour, such that: x i not one of the edges y j. oldtour X + (t 2i,t 1 ) +Y is also a tour. if oldtour X + (t 2i,t 1 ) +Y has shorter length than oldtour, then take this tour: done. Choose edge y i = (t 2i, t 2i+1 ) such that: g i = w(x i ) w(y i ) > 0. y i is not one of the edges x j. y i not in the tour. 31
32 Iterated Lin-Kernighan Construct a start tour. Repeat the following r times: Improve the tour with Lin-Kernighan until not possible. Do a random 4-opt move that does not increase the length with more than 10 percent. Report the best tour seen. Cost much time. Gives excellent results! 32
33 Other methods Simulated annealing and similar methods. Problem specific approaches, special cases. Iterated LK combined with treewidth/branchwidth approach: Run ILK a few times (e.g., 5). Take graph formed by union of the 5 tours. Find minimum length Hamiltonian circuit in graph with clever dynamic programming algorithm. 33
34 Travelling Salesman Problem Algorithms and Networks DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING 34
35 Held-Karp algorithm for TSP O(n 2 2 n ) algorithm for TSP. Uses dynamic programming. Take some starting vertex s. For set of vertices R (s R), vertex w R, let B(R,w) = minimum length of a path, that Starts in s. Visits all vertices in R (and no other vertices). Ends in w. 35
36 TSP: Recursive formulation B({s},s) = 0 B({s},v) = if v s If R > 1, then B(R,x) = min v R\{x} B( R\{x}, v ) + w(v,x) If we have all B(V,v) then we can solve TSP. Gives requested algorithm using DP-techniques. 36
37 Space Improvement for Hamiltonian Cycle Dynamic programming algorithm uses: O(n 2 2 n ) time. O(n2 n ) space. In practice space becomes a problem before time does. Next, we give an algorithm for Hamiltonian Cycle that uses: O(n 3 2 n ) time. O(n) space. This algorithm counts solutions using Inclusion/Exclusion. 37
38 Counting (Non-)Hamiltonian Cycles Computing/counting tours is much easier if we do not care about which cities are visited. This uses exponential space in the DP algorithm. Define: Walks[ v i, k ] = the number of ways to travel from v 1 to v i traversing k times an edge. We do not care whether nodes/edges are visited (or twice). Using Dynamic Programming: Walks[ v i, 0 ] = 1 if i = 1 Walks[ v i, 0 ] = 0 otherwise Walks[ v i, k ] = vj N(vi) Walks[ v j, k 1 ] Walks[ v 1, n ] counts all length n walks that return in v 1. This requires O(n 3 ) time and O(n) space. 38
39 How Does Counting Arbitrary Cycles Help? A useful formula: Number of cycles through v j = total number of cycles (some go through v j some don t) - total number of cycles that do not go through v j. Hamiltonian Cycle: cycle of length n that visits every city. Keeping track of whether every vertex is visited is hard. Counting cycles that do not go through some vertex is easy. Just leave out the vertex in the graph. Counting cycles that may go through some vertex is easy. We do not care whether it is visited or not (or twice) anymore. 39
40 Using the formula on every city A useful formula: Number of cycles through v j = total number of cycles (some go through v j some don t) - total number of cycles that do not go through v j. What if we apply the above formula to every city (except v 1 )? We get 2 n-1 subproblems, were we count walks from v 1 to v 1 where either the city is not allowed to be visited, or may be visited (not important whether it is visited, or twice, or not). After combining the computed numbers from all 2 n-1 subproblems using the above formula, we get: The number of cycles of length n visiting every vertex. I.e, the number of Hamiltonian cycles. 40
41 Apply the formula to every city: the Inclusion/Exclusion formula A useful formula: Number of cycles through v j = total number of cycles (some go through v j some don t) - total number of cycles that do not go through v j. Let CycleWalks( V ) be the number of walks from v 1 to v 1 using only vertices in V, then: 41
42 Travelling Salesman Problem Algorithms and Networks CONCLUSIONS 42
43 Conclusions TSP has many applications. Also many applications for variants of TSP. Heuristics. Construction heuristics Improvement heuristics Dynamic programming in O(n 2 2 n ) time and O(n2 n ) space. Inclusion/Exclusion for Hamiltonian Cycle in O(n 3 2 n ). Further reading: M. Jünger, G. Reinelt, G. Rinaldi, The Traveling Salesman Problem, in: Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science, volume 7: Network Models, North- Holland Elsevier,
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