arxivcs.LG2026-07-01
Neural Certificate Pricing for Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Jingyi Chen, Xinyuan Zhang, Xinwu Qian
Combinatorial optimization (CO) problems are difficult because certifiable discrete structure induces exponential search. One needs to search over the set exponentially many candidates to certify optimality, however, the structural feasibility of a path, packing, or cover can be…