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This repository is a comprehensive Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) solver implemented in Rust, organized as a multi-crate workspace. It provides a command-line interface (vrp-cli), a core optimization library (vrp-core), a hyper-heuristic framework (rosomaxa), and format-specific crates for pragmatic JSON and scientific benchmarks (Solomon, Li&Lim, TSPLIB). The solver supports a wide range of VRP variants including capacity, time windows, skills, breaks, reloads, recharges, multi-depot, multi-trip, and route balancing. It employs advanced metaheuristics: ruin-and-recreate, local search (including LKH and SWAP*), and a custom evolutionary algorithm called ROSOMAXA that uses Growing Self-Organizing Maps (GSOM) for population diversity and Thompson sampling for dynamic operator selection. The codebase is highly modular with a trait-based feature system for composing constraints and objectives, type-safe dimension macros, and extensive test coverage including property-based tests. While primarily an application/library, it also contains research experiments (heuristic visualization, GPT-based encoding) and scientific benchmark integration. The project is actively maintained but explicitly labeled as 'permanently experimental' with limited support, and the API may introduce breaking changes in minor versions.

RATING: 8.5/10 MAINT: maintained DRIFT: low
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