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In this paper, we identify and study an important problem of gradient item retrieval. We define the problem as retrieving a sequence of items with a gradual change on a certain attribute, given a reference item and a modification text. For…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Haonan Wang , Chang Zhou , Carl Yang , Hongxia Yang , Jingrui He

We study the online constrained ranking problem motivated by an application to web-traffic shaping: an online stream of sessions arrive in which, within each session, we are asked to rank items. The challenge involves optimizing the ranking…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Parikshit Shah , Akshay Soni , Troy Chevalier

Recommending the right products is the central problem in recommender systems, but the right products should also be recommended at the right time to meet the demands of users, so as to maximize their values. Users' demands, implying strong…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Ting Bai , Pan Du , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen , Jian-Yun Nie

User-generated reviews serve as crucial references in shopper's decision-making process. Moreover, they improve product sales and validate the reputation of the website as a whole. Thus, it becomes important to design reviews ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Akhil Sai Peddireddy

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

We consider a robust version of the revenue maximization problem, where a single seller wishes to sell $n$ items to a single unit-demand buyer. In this robust version, the seller knows the buyer's marginal value distribution for each item…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Moshe Babaioff , Michal Feldman , Yannai A. Gonczarowski , Brendan Lucier , Inbal Talgam-Cohen

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

Product search is generally recognized as the first and foremost stage of online shopping and thus significant for users and retailers of e-commerce. Most of the traditional retrieval methods use some similarity functions to match the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Jie Zou , Evangelos Kanoulas

Lately, personalized marketing has become important for retail/e-retail firms due to significant rise in online shopping and market competition. Increase in online shopping and high market competition has led to an increase in promotional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Ankur Verma

Multi-behavioral recommender systems have emerged as a solution to address data sparsity and cold-start issues by incorporating auxiliary behaviors alongside target behaviors. However, existing models struggle to accurately capture varying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Zhiyong Cheng , Jianhua Dong , Fan Liu , Lei Zhu , Xun Yang , Meng Wang

Writing review for a purchased item is a unique channel to express a user's opinion in E-Commerce. Recently, many deep learning based solutions have been proposed by exploiting user reviews for rating prediction. In contrast, there has been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Chenliang Li , Xichuan Niu , Xiangyang Luo , Zhenzhong Chen , Cong Quan

Generating accurate and reliable sales forecasts is crucial in the E-commerce business. The current state-of-the-art techniques are typically univariate methods, which produce forecasts considering only the historical sales data of a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Kasun Bandara , Peibei Shi , Christoph Bergmeir , Hansika Hewamalage , Quoc Tran , Brian Seaman

We study contextual dynamic pricing problems where a firm sells products to $T$ sequentially-arriving consumers, behaving according to an unknown demand model. The firm aims to minimize its regret over a clairvoyant that knows the model in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Zifeng Zhao , Feiyu Jiang , Yi Yu

The chronological order of user-item interactions can reveal time-evolving and sequential user behaviors in many recommender systems. The items that users will interact with may depend on the items accessed in the past. However, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Chen Ma , Liheng Ma , Yingxue Zhang , Jianing Sun , Xue Liu , Mark Coates

The problem of content search through comparisons has recently received considerable attention. In short, a user searching for a target object navigates through a database in the following manner: the user is asked to select the object most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Amin Karbasi , Stratis Ioannidis , Laurent Massoulie

This study addresses the multi-item multi-period order allocation problem under all-unit quantity discounts (AUQD) and blending ratios. A manufacturer makes a single product that requires mixing/assembling multiple ingredients/components…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Fuhad Ahmed Opu , Moddassir Khan Nayeem , Hamid Najafzad , Omar Abbaas

This paper discusses the revenue management (RM) problem to maximize revenue by pricing items or services. One challenge in this problem is that the demand distribution is unknown and varies over time in real applications such as airline…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Kazuma Shimizu , Junya Honda , Shinji Ito , Shinji Nakadai

In this paper we describe our machine learning solution for the RecSys Challenge, 2015. We have proposed a time efficient two-stage cascaded classifier for the prediction of buy sessions and purchased items within such sessions. Based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar , Mahamudul Hasan , Dmitry I. Ignatov

In the unit-cost comparison model, a black box takes an input two items and outputs the result of the comparison. Problems like sorting and searching have been studied in this model, and it has been generalized to include the concept of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Michael A. Bender , Mayank Goswami , Dzejla Mededovic , Pablo Montes , Kostas Tsichlas

Complementary product recommendation, which aims to suggest items that are used together to enhance customer value, is a crucial yet challenging task in e-commerce. While existing graph neural network (GNN) approaches have made significant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zekun Xu , Yudi Zhang