Traveler in scipy

Question

How to solve the problem with Traveler Salesman in python? I did not find any library, there should be a way to use scipy functions for optimization or other libraries.

My solution for hacker extreme lazy pythons:

tsp_solution = min( (sum( Dist[i] for i in izip(per, per[1:])), n, per) for n, per in enumerate(i for i in permutations(xrange(Dist.shape[0]), Dist.shape[0])) )[2]

where Dist (numpy.array) is the distance matrix. If Dist is too large, this will go on forever.

Suggestions?

Answer 1

scipy.optimize (TSP). 2-opt, TSP . :

import numpy as np

# Calculate the euclidian distance in n-space of the route r traversing cities c, ending at the path start.
path_distance = lambda r,c: np.sum([np.linalg.norm(c[r[p]]-c[r[p-1]]) for p in range(len(r))])
# Reverse the order of all elements from element i to element k in array r.
two_opt_swap = lambda r,i,k: np.concatenate((r[0:i],r[k:-len(r)+i-1:-1],r[k+1:len(r)]))

def two_opt(cities,improvement_threshold): # 2-opt Algorithm adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-opt
    route = np.arange(cities.shape[0]) # Make an array of row numbers corresponding to cities.
    improvement_factor = 1 # Initialize the improvement factor.
    best_distance = path_distance(route,cities) # Calculate the distance of the initial path.
    while improvement_factor > improvement_threshold: # If the route is still improving, keep going!
        distance_to_beat = best_distance # Record the distance at the beginning of the loop.
        for swap_first in range(1,len(route)-2): # From each city except the first and last,
            for swap_last in range(swap_first+1,len(route)): # to each of the cities following,
                new_route = two_opt_swap(route,swap_first,swap_last) # try reversing the order of these cities
                new_distance = path_distance(new_route,cities) # and check the total distance with this modification.
                if new_distance < best_distance: # If the path distance is an improvement,
                    route = new_route # make this the accepted best route
                    best_distance = new_distance # and update the distance corresponding to this route.
        improvement_factor = 1 - best_distance/distance_to_beat # Calculate how much the route has improved.
    return route # When the route is no longer improving substantially, stop searching and return the route.

:

# Create a matrix of cities, with each row being a location in 2-space (function works in n-dimensions).
cities = np.random.RandomState(42).rand(70,2)
# Find a good route with 2-opt ("route" gives the order in which to travel to each city by row number.)
route = two_opt(cities,0.001)

, :

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# Reorder the cities matrix by route order in a new matrix for plotting.
new_cities_order = np.concatenate((np.array([cities[route[i]] for i in range(len(route))]),np.array([cities[0]])))
# Plot the cities.
plt.scatter(cities[:,0],cities[:,1])
# Plot the path.
plt.plot(new_cities_order[:,0],new_cities_order[:,1])
plt.show()
# Print the route as row numbers and the total distance travelled by the path.
print("Route: " + str(route) + "\n\nDistance: " + str(path_distance(route,cities)))

, . .

:

( , , ),

path_distance = lambda r,c: np.sum([np.linalg.norm(c[r[p+1]]-c[r[p]]) for p in range(len(r)-1)])

new_cities_order = np.array([cities[route[i]] for i in range(len(route))])

cities, .

cities, swap_first , swap_first swap_last two_opt()

for swap_first in range(1,len(route)-3):
    for swap_last in range(swap_first+1,len(route)-1):

, , swap_first swap_first swap_last

for swap_first in range(0,len(route)-2):
    for swap_last in range(swap_first+1,len(route)):