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instances of the traveling salesman problem than pre-
viously attempted with RL (Pelillo, 1993).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This project has received funding from the Euro-
pean Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No 964854, the
Helmsley Charitable Trust through the ABC Robotics
Initiative, and the Frankel Fund of the Computer Sci-
ence Department at Ben-Gurion University.
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