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Stochastic optimization problems often involve data distributions that change in reaction to the decision variables. This is the case for example when members of the population respond to a deployed classifier by manipulating their features…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Lin Xiao

Order picking is the single most cost-intensive activity in picker-to-parts warehouses, and as such has garnered large interest from the scientific community which led to multiple problem formulations and a plethora of algorithms published.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Giorgio Abelli , Maximilian Katzmann , Imran Khan , Olaf Maurer , Julius Pätzold , Paweł Pszona , Jan-David Salchow

Bayesian multinomial logistic regression provides a principled, interpretable approach to multiclass classification, but posterior sampling becomes increasingly expensive as the model dimension grows. Prior work has studied scalability in…

Computation · Statistics 2026-02-27 Jared D. Fisher , Kyle R. McEvoy

We give new approximation algorithms for the submodular joint replenishment problem and the inventory routing problem, using an iterative rounding approach. In both problems, we are given a set of $N$ items and a discrete time horizon of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Thomas Bosman , Neil Olver

We study \emph{combinatorial procurement auctions}, where a buyer with a valuation function $v$ and budget $B$ wishes to buy a set of items. Each item $i$ has a cost $c_i$ and the buyer is interested in a set $S$ that maximizes $v(S)$…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ashwinkumar Badanidiyuru , Shahar Dobzinski , Sigal Oren

In this paper, we describe a solution to tackle a common set of challenges in e-commerce, which arise from the fact that new products are continually being added to the catalogue. The challenges involve properly personalising the customer…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-22 Ângelo Cardoso , Fabio Daolio , Saúl Vargas

The robust multi-product pricing problem is to determine the prices of a collection of products so as to maximize the worst-case revenue, where the worst case is taken over an uncertainty set of demand models that the firm expects could be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Xinyi Guan , Velibor V. Mišić

We study the problem of modeling purchase of multiple products and utilizing it to display optimized recommendations for online retailers and e-commerce platforms. We present a parsimonious multi-purchase family of choice models called the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Theja Tulabandhula , Deeksha Sinha , Saketh Reddy Karra , Prasoon Patidar

In this paper, we consider a multi-stage dynamic assortment optimization problem with multi-nomial choice modeling (MNL) under resource knapsack constraints. Given the current resource inventory levels, the retailer makes an assortment…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Xi Chen , Mo Liu , Yining Wang , Yuan Zhou

We consider the optimization problem of a multi-resource, multi-unit VCG auction that produces an optimal, i.e., non-approximated, social welfare. We present an algorithm that solves this optimization problem with pseudo-polynomial…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Liran Funaro , Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda , Assaf Schuster

Diversity maximization problem is a well-studied problem where the goal is to find $k$ diverse items. Fair diversity maximization aims to select a diverse subset of $k$ items from a large dataset, while requiring that each group of items be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Florian Adriaens , Nikolaj Tatti

In today's global business market place, individual firms no longer compete as independent entities with unique brand names but as integral part of supply chain links. Key to success of any business is satisfying customer's demands on time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Nelson Christopher Dzupire , Yaw Nkansah-Gyekye

We consider a class of assortment optimization problems in an offline data-driven setting. A firm does not know the underlying customer choice model but has access to an offline dataset consisting of the historically offered assortment set,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Juncheng Dong , Weibin Mo , Zhengling Qi , Cong Shi , Ethan X. Fang , Vahid Tarokh

In this work, we study the multi-agent assortment optimization problem in the two-sided sequential matching model introduced by Ashlagi et al. (2022). The setting is the following: we (the platform) offer a menu of suppliers to each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Alfredo Torrico , Margarida Carvalho , Andrea Lodi

In the online sorting problem, $n$ items are revealed one by one and have to be placed (immediately and irrevocably) into empty cells of a size-$n$ array. The goal is to minimize the sum of absolute differences between items in consecutive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Ioana O. Bercea , Lorenzo Beretta , Jonas Klausen , László Kozma

This paper studies an open question in the warehouse problem where a merchant trading a commodity tries to find an optimal inventory-trading policy to decide on purchase and sale quantities during a fixed time horizon in order to maximize…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Ishan Bansal , Oktay Günlük

In multi-item screening, optimal selling mechanisms are challenging to characterize and implement, even with full knowledge of valuation distributions. In this paper, we aim to develop tractable, interpretable, and implementable mechanisms…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-10-20 Shixin Wang

We present a methodology to provide real-time and personalized product recommendations for large e-commerce platforms, specifically focusing on fashion retail. Our approach aims to achieve accurate and scalable recommendations with minimal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Matteo Tolloso , Davide Bacciu , Shahab Mokarizadeh , Marco Varesi

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

In multiobjective optimization, the result of an optimization algorithm is a set of efficient solutions from which the decision maker selects one. It is common that not all the efficient solutions can be computed in a short time and the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Miguel Ángel Domínguez-Ríos , Francisco Chicano , Enrique Alba