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The online retailers network models are considered. In some nodes of the network consumers are located. Each consumer wishes to purchase a particular product at minimal cost due to the price of goods and transport corruption costs. Also, in…

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Transaction data obtained by Personal Financial Management (PFM) services from financial institutes such as banks and credit card companies contain a description string from which the merchant, and an encoded store identifier may be parsed.…

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We explore online inductive transfer learning, with a feature representation transfer from a radial basis function network formed of Gaussian mixture model hidden processing units to a direct, recurrent reinforcement learning agent. This…

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Real-time bidding is the new paradigm of programmatic advertising. An advertiser wants to make the intelligent choice of utilizing a \textbf{Demand-Side Platform} to improve the performance of their ad campaigns. Existing approaches are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Yining Lu , Changjie Lu , Naina Bandyopadhyay , Manoj Kumar , Gaurav Gupta

In this work we are concerned with the design of efficient mechanisms while eliciting limited information from the agents. First, we study the performance of sampling approximations in facility location games. Our key result is to show that…

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Online Travel Platforms (OTPs) have been working on improving their hotel Search & Ranking (S&R) systems that facilitate efficient matching between consumers and hotels. Existing OTPs focus almost exclusively on improving platform revenue.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Shigang Quan , Hailong Tan , Shui Liu , Zhenzhe zheng , Ruihao Zhu , Liangyue Li , Quan Lu , Fan Wu

As electrical generation becomes more distributed and volatile, and loads become more uncertain, controllability of distributed energy resources (DERs), regardless of their ownership status, will be necessary for grid reliability. Grid…

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The paper is motivated by pricing decisions faced by forecourt fuel retailers across their outlets on a road network. Through our modelling approach we are able adapt the network structure to a bipartite graph with demand nodes representing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Aaditya Bhardwaj , Ben Black , Trivikram Dokka , Christopher Kirkbride

Predicting click-through rate (CTR) is the core task of many ads online recommendation systems, which helps improve user experience and increase platform revenue. In this type of recommendation system, we often encounter two main problems:…

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Global retailers have assortments that contain hundreds of thousands of products that can be linked by several types of relationships like style compatibility, "bought together", "watched together", etc. Graphs are a natural representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Haris Dukic , Georgios Deligiorgis , Pierpaolo Sepe , Davide Bacciu , Marco Trincavelli

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

User growth is a major strategy for consumer internet companies. To optimize costly marketing campaigns and maximize user engagement, we propose a novel treatment effect optimization methodology to enhance user growth marketing. By…

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Vehicular cloud computing has emerged as a promising solution to fulfill users' demands on processing computation-intensive applications in modern driving environments. Such applications are commonly represented by graphs consisting of…

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Reinforcement learning has been explored for many problems, from video games with deterministic environments to portfolio and operations management in which scenarios are stochastic; however, there have been few attempts to test these…

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Reinforcement learning algorithms describe how an agent can learn an optimal action policy in a sequential decision process, through repeated experience. In a given environment, the agent policy provides him some running and terminal…

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We consider the fractional influence maximization problem, i.e., identifying users on a social network to be incentivized with potentially partial discounts to maximize the influence on the network. The larger the discount given to a user,…

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Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the use of machine learning to help aid in the accurate predictions of financial markets. Despite the exciting advances in this cross-section of finance and AI, many of the current approaches…

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Real-world scenarios demand reasoning about process, more than final outcome prediction, to discover latent causal chains and better understand complex systems. It requires the learning algorithms to offer both accurate predictions and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Xiaoran Xu , Songpeng Zu , Chengliang Gao , Yuan Zhang , Wei Feng

Information diffusion and influence maximization are important and extensively studied problems in social networks. Various models and algorithms have been proposed in the literature in the context of the influence maximization problem. A…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Mayur Mohite , Y. Narahari

Graph generation is a fundamental task with broad applications, such as drug discovery. Recently, discrete flow matching-based graph generation, \aka, graph flow model (GFM), has emerged due to its superior performance and flexible…

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