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POMO on the VRPTW: Comparing Constraint-Handling Approaches

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Two main methods are tested: hard/soft constraint, with three soft constraint submethods: set/decaying penalty value and Lagrangian relaxation, totalling four POMO variants, proving the hard constraint yields the strongest and most robust performance without the need for hyperparameter optimization.

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