I think the reason is that these kinds of techniques are as old as nails. There'...

YeGoblynQueenne on Oct 14, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: OptaPlanner – constraint solver for optimizing pla...

I think the reason is that these kinds of techniques are as old as nails. There's steady development but it's natural that there won't be as much excitement as for a fast growing (read: exploding) field as neural nets.