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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.93
Improved Approximation Algorithms for Capacitated Vehicle Routing with Fixed Capacity

Authors: Jingyang Zhao and Mingyu Xiao

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 345, 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)

Abstract
The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) is one of the most extensively studied problems in combinatorial optimization. Based on customer demand, we distinguish three variants of CVRP: unit-demand, splittable, and unsplittable. In this paper, we consider k-CVRP in general metrics and on general graphs, where k is the vehicle capacity. All three versions are APX-hard for any fixed k ≥ 3. Assume that the approximation ratio of metric TSP is 3/2. We present a (5/2 - Θ(√{1/k}))-approximation algorithm for the splittable and unit-demand cases, and a (5/2 + ln 2 - Θ(√{1/k}))-approximation algorithm for the unsplittable case. Our approximation ratio is better than the previous results when k is less than a sufficiently large value, approximately 1.7 x 10⁷. For small values of k, we design independent and elegant algorithms with further improvements. For the splittable and unit-demand cases, we improve the approximation ratio from 1.792 to 1.500 for k = 3, and from 1.750 to 1.500 for k = 4. For the unsplittable case, we improve the approximation ratio from 1.792 to 1.500 for k = 3, from 2.051 to 1.750 for k = 4, and from 2.249 to 2.157 for k = 5. The approximation ratio for k = 3 surprisingly achieves the same value as in the splittable case. Our techniques, such as EX-ITP - an extension of the classic ITP method, have the potential to improve algorithms for other routing problems as well.
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Jingyang Zhao and Mingyu Xiao. Improved Approximation Algorithms for Capacitated Vehicle Routing with Fixed Capacity. In 50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 345, pp. 93:1-93:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{zhao_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.93,
  author =	{Zhao, Jingyang and Xiao, Mingyu},
  title =	{{Improved Approximation Algorithms for Capacitated Vehicle Routing with Fixed Capacity}},
  booktitle =	{50th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2025)},
  pages =	{93:1--93:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-388-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{345},
  editor =	{Gawrychowski, Pawe{\l} and Mazowiecki, Filip and Skrzypczak, Micha{\l}},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.93},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-242008},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2025.93},
  annote =	{Keywords: Combinatorial Optimization, Capacitated Vehicle Routing, Approximation Algorithms, Graph Algorithms}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2020.16
Approximation Algorithms for Steiner Tree Based on Star Contractions: A Unified View

Authors: Radek Hušek, Dušan Knop, and Tomáš Masařík

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 180, 15th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2020)

Abstract
In the Steiner Tree problem, we are given an edge-weighted undirected graph G = (V,E) and a set of terminals R ⊆ V. The task is to find a connected subgraph of G containing R and minimizing the sum of weights of its edges. Steiner Tree is well known to be NP-complete and is undoubtedly one of the most studied problems in (applied) computer science. We observe that many approximation algorithms for Steiner Tree follow a similar scheme (meta-algorithm) and perform (exhaustively) a similar routine which we call star contraction. Here, by a star contraction, we mean finding a star-like subgraph in (the metric closure of) the input graph minimizing the ratio of its weight to the number of contained terminals minus one; and contract. It is not hard to see that the well-known MST-approximation seeks the best star to contract among those containing two terminals only. Zelikovsky’s approximation algorithm follows a similar workflow, finding the best star among those containing three terminals. We perform an empirical study of star contractions with the relaxed condition on the number of terminals in each star contraction motivated by a recent result of Dvořák et al. [Parameterized Approximation Schemes for Steiner Trees with Small Number of Steiner Vertices, STACS 2018]. Furthermore, we propose two improvements of Zelikovsky’s 11/6-approximation algorithm and we empirically confirm that the quality of the solution returned by any of these is better than the one returned by the former algorithm. However, such an improvement is exchanged for a slower running time (up to a multiplicative factor of the number of terminals).
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Radek Hušek, Dušan Knop, and Tomáš Masařík. Approximation Algorithms for Steiner Tree Based on Star Contractions: A Unified View. In 15th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 180, pp. 16:1-16:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{husek_et_al:LIPIcs.IPEC.2020.16,
  author =	{Hu\v{s}ek, Radek and Knop, Du\v{s}an and Masa\v{r}{\'\i}k, Tom\'{a}\v{s}},
  title =	{{Approximation Algorithms for Steiner Tree Based on Star Contractions: A Unified View}},
  booktitle =	{15th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2020)},
  pages =	{16:1--16:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-172-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{180},
  editor =	{Cao, Yixin and Pilipczuk, Marcin},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2020.16},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-133193},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2020.16},
  annote =	{Keywords: Steiner tree, approximation, star contractions, minimum spanning tree}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.142
The Team Orienteering Problem: Formulations and Branch-Cut and Price

Authors: Marcus Poggi, Henrique Viana, and Eduardo Uchoa

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 14, 10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10) (2010)

Abstract
The Team Orienteering Problem is a routing problem on a graph with durations associated to the arcs and profits assigned to visiting the vertices. A fixed number of identical vehicles, with a limited total duration for their routes, is given. The total profit gathered by all routes is to be maximized. We devise an extended formulation where edges are indexed by the time they are placed in the route. A new class of inequalities, min cut, and the triangle clique cuts of Pessoa et. al., 2007 are added. The resulting formulation is solved by column generation. Branching is done following the work of Boussier et al. 2007, to which the branch-cut-and-price algorithm here proposed is compared. A few new upper bounds were obtained. Overall the presented approach has shown to be very competitive.
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Marcus Poggi, Henrique Viana, and Eduardo Uchoa. The Team Orienteering Problem: Formulations and Branch-Cut and Price. In 10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 14, pp. 142-155, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)

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@InProceedings{poggi_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.142,
  author =	{Poggi, Marcus and Viana, Henrique and Uchoa, Eduardo},
  title =	{{The Team Orienteering Problem: Formulations and Branch-Cut and Price}},
  booktitle =	{10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10)},
  pages =	{142--155},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-20-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{14},
  editor =	{Erlebach, Thomas and L\"{u}bbecke, Marco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.142},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-27561},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.142},
  annote =	{Keywords: Branch-Cut and Price, Team Orienteering Problem, Column Generation}
}
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