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Apr 9, 2019 · Operations

How Cainiao’s VRP Engine Breaks World Records with Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search

This article explains the Vehicle Routing Problem, its many variants, classic exact and heuristic solution methods, and details how Cainiao’s algorithm team built and continuously upgraded an Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search engine—adding rich operators, parallel architectures, and achieving dozens of world‑record results on benchmark datasets.