The official python implementation for ICML 2024: "Learning Solution-Aware Transformers for Efficiently Solving Quadratic Assignment Problem"

SAWT pipline

Our SAWT uses PyTorch 1.8.1 cuda version of 11.1, This can be installed by:

pip install torch==1.8.0+cu111 torchvision==0.9.0+cu111 torchaudio==0.8.0 -f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/torch_stable.html

The minimum hardware requirement for our SAWT is a 3080 Ti. For training QAP50 and QAP100, using an A40 with 40GB of GPU memory is recommended.

The data for training and testing can be directly generated by (for example QAP20):

python QAP_DataGenerator.py --N 20 --p 0.7 --train_size 5120 --test_size 256

The data will be stored in file /synthetic_data. The data for QAP50 and QAP100 can be downloaded using Google Drive

To train QAP20 for example:

python QAP.py --name QAP20 --n_points 20 --train_size 5120 --batch_size 512 --test_size 256 --train_data ./synthetic_data/erdos20_0.7_F_train.npy ./synthetic_data/erdos20_0.7_positions_train.npy --test_data ./synthetic_data/erdos20_0.7_F_test.npy ./synthetic_data/erdos20_0.7_positions_test.npy --sat_layers 2

We release our trained model in /models, to test our SAWT, you can run the below code:

python TestLearnedAgent_qap_init_emb.py --n_points 20 --load_path models/pg-QAP20.pt

This should give the results:

Initial Cost: 69.64822 Best Cost: 54.95407 Opt Cost: 55.29000 Gap: -0.54 % Time: 38.413771867752075

@inproceedings{tanlearning,
  title={Learning Solution-Aware Transformers for Efficiently Solving Quadratic Assignment Problem},
  author={Tan, Zhentao and Yadong, MU},
  booktitle={Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning}
}