• barsoap@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Eh, I doubt that. Bin packing is a very well-researched problem. It’s one of those nasty NP ones but we already have very good algorithms giving very good approximations in very short amounts of time the chance that throwing machine learning at the problem helps is not zero, but close to it. What that kind of approach certainly won’t get you is guarantees, those approximation algorithms can be configured to spit out solutions that are at most 1% or whatever you want worse than the optimal solution.

    I doubt this actually has anything to do with Amazon’s logistics operations it’s just their marketing team wanting to hype up Amazon for AI.