Quantum Routes, Real Gains: When Transformers Meet CVRP
Opening — Why this matters now Routing problems are the unglamorous backbone of modern logistics. Every e‑commerce delivery, warehouse dispatch, and last‑mile optimization problem eventually collapses into some variant of the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP). It is also, inconveniently, NP‑hard. Classical heuristics scale. Deep learning brings adaptability. Quantum computing promises expressivity. The uncomfortable question is whether these promises stack—or cancel each other out. ...