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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

We consider the revenue maximization problem for an online retailer who plans to display in order a set of products differing in their prices and qualities. Consumers have attention spans, i.e., the maximum number of products they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ningyuan Chen , Anran Li , Shuoguang Yang

Online platforms increasingly rely on sequential decision-making algorithms to allocate resources, match users, or control exposure, while facing growing pressure to ensure fairness over time. We study a general online decision-making…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Rui Chen , Oktay Gunluk , Andrea Lodi , Guanyi Wang

The amount of transmitted data in computer networks is expected to grow considerably in the future, putting more and more pressure on the network infrastructures. In order to guarantee a good service, it then becomes fundamental to use the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Stefano D'Aronco , Pascal Frossard

Fisher markets are one of the most fundamental models for resource allocation. However, the problem of computing equilibrium prices in Fisher markets typically relies on complete knowledge of users' budgets and utility functions and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Devansh Jalota , Yinyu Ye

This paper considers a novel variant of the online fair division problem involving multiple agents in which a learner sequentially observes an indivisible item that has to be irrevocably allocated to one of the agents while satisfying a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Arun Verma , Indrajit Saha , Makoto Yokoo , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

As we all know, users and item-providers are two main parties of participants in recommender systems. However, most existing research efforts on recommendation were focused on better serving users and overlooked the purpose of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Qiang Dong , Shuang-Shuang Xie , Wen-Jun Li

We consider the problem of dividing limited resources to individuals arriving over $T$ rounds. Each round has a random number of individuals arrive, and individuals can be characterized by their type (i.e. preferences over the different…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Sean R. Sinclair , Gauri Jain , Siddhartha Banerjee , Christina Lee Yu

We study the efficiency of allocations in large markets with a network structure where every seller owns an edge in a graph and every buyer desires a path connecting some nodes. While it is known that stable allocations in such settings can…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Elliot Anshelevich , Shreyas Sekar

We consider the problem of fairly allocating items to a set of individuals, when the items are arriving online. A central solution concept in fair allocation is competitive equilibrium: every individual is endowed with a budget of faux…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Luofeng Liao , Yuan Gao , Christian Kroer

Ranking items by their probability of relevance has long been the goal of conventional ranking systems. While this maximizes traditional criteria of ranking performance, there is a growing understanding that it is an oversimplification in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Lequn Wang , Thorsten Joachims

We study the problem of designing posted-price mechanisms in order to sell a single unit of a single item within a finite period of time. Motivated by real-world problems, such as, e.g., long-term rental of rooms and apartments, we assume…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Giulia Romano , Gianluca Tartaglia , Alberto Marchesi , Nicola Gatti

We study the problems of pricing an indivisible product to consumers who are embedded in a given social network. The goal is to maximize the revenue of the seller. We assume impatient consumers who buy the product as soon as the seller…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Zhigang Cao , Xujin Chen , Xiaodong Hu , Changjun Wang

We introduce a novel algorithm for solving network utility maximization (NUM) problems that arise in resource allocation schemes over networks with known safety-critical constraints, where the constraints form an arbitrary convex and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Berkay Turan , Spencer Hutchinson , Mahnoosh Alizadeh

We study the problem of allocating scarce societal resources of different types (e.g., permanent housing, deceased donor kidneys for transplantation, ventilators) to heterogeneous allocatees on a waitlist (e.g., people experiencing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Bill Tang , Çağıl Koçyiğit , Eric Rice , Phebe Vayanos

Motivated by recent progress on pricing in the AI literature, we study marketplaces that contain multiple vendors offering identical or similar products and unit-demand buyers with different valuations on these vendors. The objective of…

In many shopping scenarios, e.g., in online shopping, customers have a large menu of options to choose from. However, most of the buyers do not browse all the options and make decision after considering only a small part of the menu. To…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Nick Gravin , Zhihao Gavin Tang

We address the challenging problem of dynamically pricing complementary items that are sequentially displayed to customers. An illustrative example is the online sale of flight tickets, where customers navigate through multiple web pages.…

In this paper, we investigate the discount allocation problem in social networks. It has been reported that 40\% of consumers will share an email offer with their friend and 28\% of consumers will share deals via social media platforms.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Shaojie Tang , Jing Yuan

The classical Prophet Inequality arises from a fundamental problem in optimal-stopping theory. In this problem, a gambler sees a finite sequence of independent, non-negative random variables. If he stops the sequence at any time, he…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-10 Van-Anh Truong , Xinshang Wang
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