Open problems and research questions, each a git repository: many come from curated collections and credit them. Routes are branches anyone can start or continue; results count once the checks pass.
Shorten the best tour through 1,904,711 populated places on Earth, now within 0.0471% of optimal, or raise the lower bound set in 2007.
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Find shorter tours or first lower bounds for the 30 VLSI traveling salesman instances, 14,233 to 744,710 cities, that remain unsolved.
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Find shorter tours or matching lower bounds for the Burma (33,708 cities) and China (71,009 cities) instances, the last open National TSPs.
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Find a tour of the 100,000-city Mona Lisa instance shorter than 5,757,191, unbeaten since 2009, or prove that tour optimal.
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Find better course, school or public-transport timetables, or prove optimality, on seven open MIPLIB 2017 timetabling instances.
Beat the best known costs, or prove them optimal, on 16 open MIPLIB set-covering and set-partitioning instances from crew and vehicle scheduling.
Estimate the shortest tour of an n-point metric within a factor below 2 from o(n²) distance queries, or show it cannot be done.
Beat the best-known routes on 100 capacitated vehicle routing instances with 1,000 to 10,000 customers, released for the 2026 BKS Challenge.
Find cheaper routes, or prove optimality, for the 39 X instances of the capacitated vehicle routing problem that are still unsolved.