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Assortment optimization refers to the problem of designing a slate of products to offer potential customers, such as stocking the shelves in a convenience store. The price of each product is fixed in advance, and a probabilistic choice…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Nicole Immorlica , Brendan Lucier , Jieming Mao , Vasilis Syrgkanis , Christos Tzamos

In this paper we consider the problem of pricing multiple differentiated products. This is challenging as a price change in one product, not only changes the demand of that particular product, but also the demand for the other products. To…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-27 Ruben van de Geer , Sandjai Bhulai

In this paper, we consider a Markov chain choice model with single transition. In this model, customers arrive at each product with a certain probability. If the arrived product is unavailable, then the seller can recommend a subset of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Kameng Nip , Zhenbo Wang , Zizhuo Wang

In this paper, we address open computational questions regarding the market share ranking problem, recently introduced by Derakhshan et al. (2022). Their modelling framework incorporates the extremely popular Multinomial Logit (MNL) choice…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Danny Segev , Gidi Steinberg

We study optimal experimental design for multinomial logit (MNL) bandits, where an agent repeatedly selects a subset of $K$ items from a ground set of size $N$ and observes single-choice feedback. Unlike linear or generalized linear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-26 Joongkyu Lee , Min-hwan Oh

In B2B markets, value-based pricing and selling has become an important alternative to discounting. This study outlines a modeling method that uses customer data (product offers made to each current or potential customer, features,…

Econometrics · Economics 2023-08-16 John V. Colias , Stella Park , Elizabeth Horn

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

We study huge-scale assortment optimization problems to maximize expected revenue under customer choice, addressing a fundamental challenge in industries such as transportation, retail, and healthcare. The choice-based linear programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Donghao Zhu , Hanzhang Qin , Ching-pei Lee , Yuki Saito , Takahiro Kawashima , Kenji Fukumizu

Binary logit (BNL) and multinomial logit (MNL) models are the two most widely used discrete choice models for travel behavior modeling and prediction. However, in many scenarios, the collected data for those models are subject to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Baichuan Mo , Yunhan Zheng , Xiaotong Guo , Ruoyun Ma , Jinhua Zhao

We present a mixed multinomial logit (MNL) model, which leverages the truncated stick-breaking process representation of the Dirichlet process as a flexible nonparametric mixing distribution. The proposed model is a Dirichlet process…

Applications · Statistics 2018-01-22 Rico Krueger , Akshay Vij , Taha H. Rashidi

We consider the constrained assortment optimization problem under the mixed multinomial logit model. Even moderately sized instances of this problem are challenging to solve directly using standard mixed-integer linear optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Alper Sen , Alper Atamturk , Philip Kaminsky

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

To address efficiency and design challenges in choice-based matching platforms, we introduce a two-sided assortment optimization framework under general choice preferences. The goal in this problem is to maximize the expected number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Omar El Housni , Ulysse Hennebelle , Alfredo Torrico

In this paper, we consider the contextual variant of the MNL-Bandit problem. More specifically, we consider a dynamic set optimization problem, where a decision-maker offers a subset (assortment) of products to a consumer and observes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Priyank Agrawal , Theja Tulabandhula , Vashist Avadhanula

This paper explores the adaptive (active) PAC (probably approximately correct) top-$k$ ranking (i.e., top-$k$ item selection) and total ranking problems from $l$-wise ($l\geq 2$) comparisons under the multinomial logit (MNL) model. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Wenbo Ren , Jia Liu , Ness B. Shroff

Multinomial logit bandit is a sequential subset selection problem which arises in many applications. In each round, the player selects a $K$-cardinality subset from $N$ candidate items, and receives a reward which is governed by a {\it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Mingdong Ou , Nan Li , Shenghuo Zhu , Rong Jin

Learning the optimal ordering of content is an important challenge in website design. The learning to rank (LTR) framework models this problem as a sequential problem of selecting lists of content and observing where users decide to click.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 James A. Grant , David S. Leslie

We address the problem of active online assortment optimization problem with preference feedback, which is a framework for modeling user choices and subsetwise utility maximization. The framework is useful in various real-world applications…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Aadirupa Saha , Pierre Gaillard

We study a two-level uncapacitated lot-sizing problem with inventory bounds that occurs in a supply chain composed of a supplier and a retailer. The first level with the demands is the retailer level and the second one is the supplier…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Siao-Leu Phouratsamay , Safia Kedad-Sidhoum , Fanny Pascual

School choice mechanism designers use discrete choice models to understand and predict families' preferences. The most widely-used choice model, the multinomial logit (MNL), is linear in school and/or household attributes. While the model…

Applications · Statistics 2023-06-06 Amel Awadelkarim , Arjun Seshadri , Itai Ashlagi , Irene Lo , Johan Ugander