Combining Reinforcement Learning and Deep Learning
Amazon is one of the world's leading e-retailers, with sales over US$ 250 billion. Amazon's e-store sales exceed all of its other activities, such as AWS subscription services (premium, for example), retail third-party seller services, and physical stores.
This chapter focuses on apparel production activity, one of Amazon's markets for which the company recently registered a patent. Prime Wardrobe even offers a try-and-easy-return service. This new activity requires planning and scheduling. Amazon took the matter seriously and registered a patent for an apparel manufacturing system to control the production process of its apparel products.
Artificial intelligence already plays a role in automatic planning and scheduling in the apparel business, from customer orders through to delivery.
Google has successfully combined deep learning and reinforcement learning (Q-learning) in a deep Q-network ...