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We consider a dynamic assortment selection problem where a seller has a fixed inventory of $N$ substitutable products and faces an unknown demand that arrives sequentially over $T$ periods. In each period, the seller needs to decide on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Abdellah Aznag , Vineet Goyal , Noemie Perivier

We consider an assortment selection and pricing problem in which a seller has $N$ different items available for sale. In each round, the seller observes a $d$-dimensional contextual preference information vector for the user, and offers to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yigit Efe Erginbas , Thomas A. Courtade , Kannan Ramchandran

Selecting which products to display and at what prices is a central decision in retail and e-commerce operations. In many applications, these two choices must be made jointly under limited display capacity and uncertain customer demand. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Yunfan Zhang , Yuxuan Han , Hongyu Shan , Jose Blanchet , Zhengyuan Zhou

Motivated by applications in e-retail and online advertising, we study the problem of assortment optimization under visibility constraints, that we refer to as APV. Here, we are given a universe of substitutable products and a stream of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Theo Barre , Omar El Housni , Marouane Ibn Brahim , Andrea Lodi , Danny Segev

We study adaptive two-sided assortment optimization for revenue maximization in choice-based matching platforms. The platform has two sides of agents, an initiating side, and a responding side. The decision-maker sequentially selects agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Mohammadreza Ahmadnejadsaein , Omar El Housni

We study a class of robust assortment optimization problems that was proposed by Farias, Jagabathula, and Shah (2013). The goal in these problems is to find an assortment that maximizes a firm's worst-case expected revenue under all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Bradley Sturt

Sorting input objects is an important step in many machine learning pipelines. However, the sorting operator is non-differentiable with respect to its inputs, which prohibits end-to-end gradient-based optimization. In this work, we propose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-30 Aditya Grover , Eric Wang , Aaron Zweig , Stefano Ermon

We consider a dynamic pricing problem in network revenue management where customer behavior is predicted by a choice model, i.e., the multinomial logit (MNL) model. The problem, even in the static setting (i.e., customer demand remains…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-06 Qian Shao , Tien Mai , Shih-Fen Cheng

We present a fast multiscale approach for the network minimum logarithmic arrangement problem. This type of arrangement plays an important role in a network compression and fast node/link access operations. The algorithm is of linear…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-04-30 Ilya Safro , Boris Temkin

We consider the following two deterministic inventory optimization problems over a finite planning horizon $T$ with non-stationary demands. (a) Submodular Joint Replenishment Problem: This involves multiple item types and a single retailer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Viswanath Nagarajan , Cong Shi

This paper studies an online selection problem, where a seller seeks to sequentially sell multiple copies of an item to arriving buyers. We consider an adversarial setting, making no modeling assumptions about buyers' valuations for the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Bo Sun , Hossein Nekouyan Jazi , Xiaoqi Tan , Raouf Boutaba

We study the problem of finding the optimal assortment that maximizes expected revenue under the decision forest model, a recently proposed nonparametric choice model that is capable of representing any discrete choice model and in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Yi-Chun Akchen , Velibor V. Mišić

Strategic product placement can have a strong influence on customer purchase behavior in physical stores as well as online platforms. Motivated by this, we consider the problem of optimizing the placement of substitutable products in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Omar El Housni , Rajan Udwani

Most recent research in network revenue management incorporates choice behavior that models the customers' buying logic. These models are consequently more complex to solve, but they return a more robust policy that usually generates better…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Thibault Barbier , Miguel Anjos , Fabien Cirinei , Gilles Savard

We consider a sequential assortment selection problem where the user choice is given by a multinomial logit (MNL) choice model whose parameters are unknown. In each period, the learning agent observes a $d$-dimensional contextual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-26 Min-hwan Oh , Garud Iyengar

In this paper, we study the dynamic assortment optimization problem under a finite selling season of length $T$. At each time period, the seller offers an arriving customer an assortment of substitutable products under a cardinality…

Econometrics · Economics 2019-01-21 Xi Chen , Yining Wang , Yuan Zhou

Discrete-choice models are used in economics, marketing and revenue management to predict customer purchase probabilities, say as a function of prices and other features of the offered assortment. While they have been shown to be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Hanzhao Wang , Zhongze Cai , Xiaocheng Li , Kalyan Talluri

Price differentiation is a common strategy in many markets. In this paper, we study a static multiproduct price optimization problem with demand given by a discrete mixed multinomial logit model. By considering a mixed logit model that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Ahmadreza Marandi , Virginie Lurkin

Optimising queries in real-world situations under imperfect conditions is still a problem that has not been fully solved. We consider finding the optimal order in which to execute a given set of selection operators under partial ignorance…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Khaled H. Alyoubi , Sven Helmer , Peter T. Wood

We introduce a bandit framework for stochastic matching under the multinomial logit (MNL) choice model. In our setting, $N$ agents on one side are assigned to $K$ arms on the other side, where each arm stochastically selects an agent from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-30 Jung-hun Kim , Min-hwan Oh