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Aug 2026
Information-theoretic formulation of the Traveling Salesman Problem
This paper proposes a general approach for handling hard constraints while reducing hard combinatorial optimization problems to simpler ones, and derives a mean-field approximation in terms of edge occupancies and implement a differentiable cycle penalty that suppresses sub-tours.
Enrico Maria Fenoaltea, Riccardo Piombo, A. Patelli
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