Category Archives: Optimization

The seven levels of artificial intelligence by Warren B. Powell

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Practical Applications, Use Cases, and Testing (DC2023 Notes Part 3)

As usual, DecisionCAMP included presentations devoted to practical applications and case studies of decision modeling and decision optimization. Testing rules-based decision services is extremely important topic in practical decision management especially in the modern CI/CD world. No wonder we had … Continue reading

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Large Language Models as Optimizers

The article with this title was published on Sep 7, 2023. “In this work, we propose Optimization by PROmpting (OPRO), a simple and effective approach to leverage large language models (LLMs) as optimizers, where the optimization task is described in … Continue reading

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Business Process Optimization

Prof. Marlon Dumas made this presentation at BPM-2023: Read more

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AI4OPT: AI for Optimization

AI4OPT, NSF Artificial Intelligence Research Institute for Advances in Optimization, aims at delivering a paradigm shift in automated decision making at massive scales by fusing AI and Mathematical Optimization, to deliver breakthroughs that neither field can achieve independently. The Institute … Continue reading

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About LLM Reasoning and Planning Abilities

Today Yann LeCun wrote: “Auto-regressive LLM have very limited reasoning and planning abilities. I do not believe we can get anywhere close to human-level AI (even cat-level AI) without (1) learning world models from sensory inputs like video, (2) an … Continue reading

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MiniCP: A lightweight Java Constraint Programming Solver

Many decision problems (logistics, production, space, etc.) aiming at an optimal use of resources can be formulated as constraint combinatorial optimization problems. Unfortunately, these problems are difficult to solve mainly for two reasons: 1) They require complex algorithms to design … Continue reading

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Researchers Achieve ‘Absurdly Fast’ Algorithm for Network Flow

A team of computer scientists has come up with a dramatically faster algorithm for one of the oldest problems in computer science: Maximum Flow. The problem asks how much material can flow through a network from a source to a destination if … Continue reading

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Connecting the Dots

If someone gives us a collection of points, how should we connect them? Should we try to pair them up? Should we try to join them together to form a single loop? Should we try something else? And once we’ve … Continue reading

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Vaccination Scheduling Decisions

Geoffrey De Smet created a vaccination scheduling software. He discovered an interesting Vaccination Appointment Scheduling Paradox: It’s more user friendly if people can NOT choose their own appointment. Watch video

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