AMatNet variants

A.1 Multiple data matrices A combinatorial optimization problem can be presented with multiple (f) relationship features between two groups of items. In FFSP, for example, a production cost could be different for each process that one has to take into account for scheduling in addition to the processing time for each pair of the job and the machine. When there are f number of matrices that need to be encoded (D1, D2, ..., Df), MatNet can be easily expended to accommodate such problems by using the mixed-score attention shown in Figure A.1 instead of the one in Figure 2(b). "Trainable element-wise function" block in Figure A.1 is now an MLP with f + 1 input nodes and 1 output node. A.2 Alternative encoding sequences Equation (2) in the main text describes the application of FA and FB in the graph attentional layer of MatNet that happens in parallel.