
Explore how artificial intelligence for business enables optimizing processes, minimizing costs, and maximizing revenues through real-world case studies and practical AI blueprints.
Apply q-learning to optimize warehouse flows for an autonomous robot among 12 locations, building state, actions, and rewards; start with the E to G path, then add routes via K.
Learn to optimize warehouse flows with q-learning by defining the environment: state, actions, and reward, then study the theory including Markov decision processes and temporal difference, implemented in Python.
Define the environment for a q-learning model by specifying state, actions, and rewards, encoding warehouse locations as indices and mapping possible next locations into a matrix-based reward function.
Define a reward function for a finite state-action space and populate a rewards matrix. Train a q-learning model to guide a warehouse robot to location G with a high reward.
Explore reinforcement learning fundamentals, including the Bellman equation, Q-learning, and Markov decision processes, with tutorials and a visualization of how AI learns in environments.
In reinforcement learning, an agent explores an environment by taking actions, receiving rewards, and learning which actions lead to favorable states.
Explore the Bellman equation in reinforcement learning, linking state, action, reward, and gamma to determine the maximum value of future states, illustrated with a maze.
Uncover the plan as a treasure map for an AI agent, replacing state values with arrows to guide maze navigation, and distinguish it from policy in stochastic environments.
Explore Markov decision processes and the Markov property in modeling decisions under randomness. Use the Bellman equation with expected values to guide actions in non-deterministic environments.
Compare policy and plan within a Markov decision process by applying the Bellman equation to evaluate state values under randomness and non-deterministic outcomes.
Explore living penalty in reinforcement learning by adding a small negative reward at every move, showing how it reshapes the agent’s policy under the Bellman equation.
Discover the intuition behind Q-learning, contrasting state values and action values, derive the Q-value from rewards, discounting, and next-state probabilities, and learn how to pick the best action.
Explore how temporal difference updates drive Q-learning by refining Q-values from observed rewards and future estimates in stochastic environments. Learn how alpha governs learning and convergence toward zero TD error.
Explore q-learning in a grid world as an AI agent updates q-values and learns a policy through exploration. Observe how iterations, rewards, and discounting shape the policy.
Implement a q-learning solution to optimize warehouse flows and build a python tool that directs a robot to the top-priority location, with an intermediary point option.
Learn to set up a q-learning based warehouse optimization with numpy, initialize gamma and alpha, and structure the project into environment definition, training, and production.
Set gamma and alpha for q-learning, define the environment with states, actions, and rewards, train the model, and deploy a tool that returns the shortest route to location G.
Define a reward function for a warehouse q-learning scenario by building a 2D reward matrix with states 0–11 and actions 0–11 using numpy, then prepare for the q-learning algorithm.
Explore building a q-learning solution for warehouse flow optimization by initializing a 12 by 12 q-value matrix to zeros and running 1000 iterations using the bellman equation.
Implement the q-learning loop by initializing a random current state from 12 possibilities and selecting a random action within a 1000-iteration Python for loop using numpy rand int.
Apply Q-learning to optimize business processes by selecting random playable actions from a current state, tally rewards, and progress toward the next state, setting up for Bellman updates.
Compute the temporal difference in a q-learning step by combining reward, the next state's max q value and the current q value, then update with the learning rate alpha.
Update the Q values with the temporal difference scaled by alpha. Outline a production tool that computes the shortest route from start to the top-priority location.
Build a production tool that computes the optimal route for an autonomous warehouse robot using q-learning, returning a letter-based path from the starting location to the top-priority end location.
Define a Python function to compute the optimal route from a starting location to an ending location for a warehouse robot using the maximum Q value.
Demonstrates using a matrix of Q values and a while loop to pick the next location in a warehouse via argmax, building the route step by step.
Learn how to efficiently invert a location-to-state dictionary into a state-to-location mapping, enabling quick retrieval of the next location letter from the next state in one line of code.
Finish the root function to return the optimal path. Update the next location using the state-to-location map, append to the route, and repeat until the top-priority location is reached.
Test a warehouse routing tool and verify two optimal routes from e to g: e i j f b g and e i j k l h g, with reward updates favoring k before g.
Automate reward updates and q-learning by integrating the learning process into the root function with a copied rewards matrix mapped from ending locations to their corresponding states.
Learn how to steer a warehouse robot via an intermediary location (K) to reach the top priority location (G) by shaping q-learning rewards and implementing a two-step route function.
Minimize costs by building a deep q-learning AI to reduce energy use in data centers, defining environment, state, actions, rewards, and using experience replay with a Keras neural network.
Explore minimizing server energy by comparing AI temperature control to integrated cooling system. Define the environment with the 18°C to 24°C optimal range and model energy changes via linear regression.
Create a server energy minimization environment where an AI uses a three-element state (temperature, users, data rate) and five discrete temperature actions, rewarded by energy savings.
Develop a deep q-learning intuition by detailing learning versus acting, neural network updates, and temporal-difference concepts, then examine experience replay and exploration and exploitation policies.
Explore deep q-learning by feeding environment states into a neural network to predict q-values for four actions, then update via temporal difference with targets and backpropagation.
Explore how deep q-learning moves from learning to acting by using fixed q-values passed through softmax to select the best action, then proceeds to the next state.
Apply experience replay to deep q-learning by batching past experiences, sampling uniformly to break sequential correlations, and learning from rare events to improve neural network updates.
Explore action selection policies in deep Q-learning, including epsilon greedy, epsilon soft, and softmax, to balance exploration and exploitation and produce action probabilities from Q-values to avoid local maxima.
Minimize server energy consumption with a complete deep q-learning framework, building the environment, brain, and training pipeline, tested via a one-year simulation using numpy.
Build the environment within a class and initialize parameters like optimal temperature range, current users, and data rate to implement the general ai framework for energy-saving server regulation.
Define and initialize environment variables and parameters, including monthly temperatures, initial month, and current and initial user and data rates, to set up the energy-aware optimization simulation.
Compare energy usage of two server scenarios: AI versus no AI, by evolving an intrinsic temperature based on users and data rate and tracking temperatures and total energy.
Explain updating the environment after an AI action by computing reward, next state, and game over, then estimating no AI cooling energy and server temperature within bounds.
Compute and scale the reward as the energy difference with and without I, then update next state from users, data rate, and server temperature in a deep reinforcement learning loop.
Minimize costs by computing next state from atmospheric temperature, user count, data rate, and service temperature, with intrinsic temperature defined as atmospheric temperature plus 1.25 and users bounded by 10–100.
Compute the delta of intrinsic temperature from updated atmospheric temperature, users, and data rate to align simulations with and without I.
Implement a game over mechanism to reset episodes when server temperature goes out of bounds, handling training mode and inference mode while updating AI energy costs versus the baseline.
Update AI and cooling system energy scores, compare to a one-year benchmark, and scale next state by normalizing server temperature, user count, and data rate for the neural network.
Scale the next state in deep reinforcement learning by normalizing temperature, user count, and data rate with min-max bounds into a scaled input vector for the neural network, updating environment.
Implement a reset method to reinitialize the environment at each training epoch, and an observe method to report the current state, last reward, and whether the game is over.
Add an observe method in the environment that returns the current state, last reward, and game-over status, using a copy-paste trick to focus on the scaled current state.
Build a fully connected neural network, the AI brain, that takes server temperature, user count, and data rate to yield five Q-values for cooling and heating actions.
Build a brain with the Keras tool, defining a brain class and an init method to assemble dense layers and a model, using a 0.001 learning rate for five actions.
Build a neural network architecture with three input states, two hidden layers (64 and 32), and five outputs for Q values, using Keras, mean squared error loss, and an optimizer.
Assemble a deep q-learning neural network with input states, hidden layers, and output q-values, then apply mean squared error loss and the Adam optimizer to train the artificial brain.
Implement deep q-learning with experience replay by initializing memory, building the brain to map states to action values, and training with batch learning to update network weights via loss minimization.
Define a DQN model in a class, initializing memory and parameters in init, including max memory and discount factor. Build and manage the experience replay memory of transitions for training.
Implement a remember method to store transitions in experience replay, track game over, cap memory size with a max_memory, and prepare data for the final deep q-learning step.
Develop a get batch method to build two batches of ten inputs and ten targets from memory, with configurable batch size and generalized input/output dimensions.
Sample ten random transitions from memory to build input and target batches; compute targets as reward plus discounted max future Q-values, handling game over to guide learning.
Begin the second journey by configuring a dqn-based training to minimize costs through regulating server temperature, detailing seeds, epsilon, action space, memory, batch size, and environment, brain, and dqn objects.
Instantiate and configure environment with parameters, build brain and dqn model with learning rate 0.0001, set training mode, and prepare to train an ai regulating server temperature for energy savings.
Set up train mode, assemble the full model (neural network, loss, optimizer), and initiate a deep reinforcement learning training loop with environment resets, state observations, and exploration versus exploitation.
Explore cost minimization in a reinforcement learning loop, using a 30/70 epsilon-greedy policy, environment updates, memory storage, and DQN-based loss optimization across epochs and minutes.
The lecture shows inferring the next action from a Keras model, predicting q-values and selecting the arg max, with epsilon-greedy choices and current state input.
Drive a training loop with 30% exploration and 70% inference, update the environment to move through months in a five-month epoch, and store transitions for experience replay.
Train on two batches with Keras' train_on_batch to perform mini-batch gradient descent. Use the atom optimizer and mean squared error to compute and backpropagate the loss.
Print training results for each epoch and save the model using Keras. Compare energy spent with AI versus server cooling across epochs, aiming to beat 50% energy savings.
Learn to run a one-year AI energy consumption simulation in inference mode, loading a pre-trained model, comparing AI energy use to an alternative cooling system to minimize costs.
In inference mode, this lecture guides a year-long simulation using a deep q-network to predict actions, update environment, and compare energy spent against a cooling alternative, aiming for 50% savings.
This lecture shows calculating the energy saved by AI versus a baseline cooling system, achieving 54% energy savings, and discusses reducing data center costs with early stopping in AI training.
Structure of the course:
Part 1 - Optimizing Business Processes
Case Study: Optimizing the Flows in an E-Commerce Warehouse
AI Solution: Q-Learning
Part 2 - Minimizing Costs
Case Study: Minimizing the Costs in Energy Consumption of a Data Center
AI Solution: Deep Q-Learning
Part 3 - Maximizing Revenues
Case Study: Maximizing Revenue of an Online Retail Business
AI Solution: Thompson Sampling
Real World Business Applications:
With Artificial Intelligence, you can do three main things for any business:
Optimize Business Processes
Minimize Costs
Maximize Revenues
We will show you exactly how to succeed these applications, through Real World Business case studies. And for each of these applications we will build a separate AI to solve the challenge.
In Part 1 - Optimizing Processes, we will build an AI that will optimize the flows in an E-Commerce warehouse!
In Part 2 - Minimizing Costs, we will build a more advanced AI that will minimize the costs in energy consumption of a data center by more than 50%! Just as Google did last year thanks to DeepMind!
In Part 3 - Maximizing Revenues, we will build a different AI that will maximize revenue of an Online Retail Business, making it earn more than 1 Billion dollars in revenue!
But that's not all, this time, and for the first time, we’ve prepared a huge innovation for you. With this course, you will get an incredible extra product, highly valuable for your career:
"a 100-pages book covering everything about Artificial Intelligence for Business!".
The Book:
This book includes:
100 pages of crystal clear explanations, written in beautiful and clean latex
All the AI intuition and theory, including the math explained in detail
The three Case Studies of the course, and their solutions
Three different AI models, including Q-Learning, Deep Q-Learning, and Thompson Sampling
Code Templates
Homework and their solutions for you to practice
Plus, lots of extra techniques and tips like saving and loading models, early stopping, and much much more.
Conclusion:
If you want to land a top-paying job or create your very own successful business in AI, then this is the course you need.
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