crossrefMathematics2026-06-19
Beyond Neural Solvers: A Critical Review of Machine Learning for Combinatorial Optimization
Mostafa E. A. Ibrahim, Alaa E. S. Ahmed, Yassine Daadaa
Combinatorial optimization is a key component in critical decision problems such as routing, scheduling, network design, and graph optimization. Although combinatorial optimization methods, including exact algorithms, approximation methods, constraint programming, mixed integer p…