“Meet a GERAD researcher!” seminar

Title: Adaptive self-learning mechanisms for updating short-term production scheduling in an industrial mining complex

Speaker: Ashish Kumar – Université McGill, Canada

A new method based on a fast and smart reinforcement learning framework is proposed to adapt and update the short-term production scheduling of an industrial mining complex with new information. The latter is first used to update the stochastic models of mineral deposits using ensemble Kalman filter. Subsequently, a combination of neural networks and policy gradient reinforcement learning is used to update the short-term production scheduling decisions. Results from a large copper-gold mining complex show that the proposed adaptive framework better meet production targets and consistently generates higher cash flows, when compared to the conventional approach.

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