Summary of The Practimum-optimum Algorithm For Manufacturing Scheduling: a Paradigm Shift Leading to Breakthroughs in Scale and Performance, by Moshe Benbassat
The Practimum-Optimum Algorithm for Manufacturing Scheduling: A Paradigm Shift Leading to Breakthroughs in Scale and Performance
by Moshe BenBassat
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The Practimum-Optimum (P-O) algorithm revolutionizes automatic optimization products for complex business problems like large-scale manufacturing scheduling. It leverages deep domain expertise to create virtual human expert (VHE) agents with diverse “schools of thought” on generating high-quality schedules. By computerizing these VHEs into algorithms, P-O produces numerous valid schedules at speeds far surpassing human schedulers. Initially, these schedules can be local optimum peaks distant from high-quality solutions. The algorithm submits these schedules to a reinforced machine learning algorithm (RL) to learn their weaknesses and strengths, then adjusts the Demand Set’s priorities for time and resource allocation based on the prior iteration’s results. This enables exploration of different schedule parts in subsequent iterations, potentially finding higher-quality solutions. This approach differs significantly from contemporary algorithms that focus on local micro-steps around visited peaks. P-O’s breakthrough scale and performance capabilities are showcased by the Plataine Scheduler, which can efficiently schedule 30,000-50,000 tasks for real-life complex manufacturing operations with just one click. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The Practimum-Optimum (P-O) algorithm helps make scheduling in big factories faster and better. It uses special computer agents that have different ways of thinking about how to make a good schedule. These agents are really smart and can come up with many different schedules quickly. Some of these schedules might not be the best, but they’re all part of the process. The algorithm learns from these schedules and makes adjustments so it can try new ideas and find even better ones. This is different from other algorithms that just focus on small changes around what they already know. P-O’s approach lets it explore a lot more possibilities and make scheduling faster and better. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Machine learning * Optimization
