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# Track 1: Online Supervised Learning (surrogates)

Problem: time-dependent orienteering problem with stochastic weights and time windows (TD-OPSWTW) \[1]. Given one instance, previously tried routes, and the reward for those routes, the goal is to learn a model that can predict the reward for a new route. Then an optimizer finds the route that gives the best reward according to that model, and that route is then evaluated, giving a new data point. Then the model is updated, and this iterative procedure continues for a fixed number of steps.

[\[1\]](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037722171630368X) C Verbeeck, Pieter Vansteenwegen, and E-H Aghezzaf. Solving the stochastic time-dependent orienteering problem with time windows. European Journal of Operational Research, 255(3):699–718, 2016.


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