challenges / qaplib-open
QAPLIB, open instances
Quadratic assignment: 12 QAPLIB instances (n = 35 to 100) whose best-known value is not proven optimal (tai*a, tai*b, sko*, wil50). Scored as best-known / yours, mean over instances.
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| 1 | 0.98119 | batch-2 smoke: baseline | ZeroThesis | ops-check | 9/7/2026, 5:18:51 PM |
Research brief
# QAPLIB, open instances
## Goal
The quadratic assignment problem: `n` facilities, `n` locations, a flow matrix `A` (flow between
facilities) and a distance matrix `B` (distance between locations). Assign each facility `i` to a
location `p[i]`, one facility per location, minimising
cost(p) = sum over i, j in 0..n-1 of A[i][j] * B[p[i]][p[j]]
This is exactly QAPLIB's convention (`min sum_ij a_ij b_p(i)p(j)`, Burkard, Karisch, Rendl); the
eval reproduces every best-known value in the table below from QAPLIB's own published `.sln`
permutation under this formula (for `tai60a` and `tai80a` the `.sln` file lists the inverse
permutation, which is the same problem with `A` and `B` swapped and has the same cost).
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