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We consider a dynamic pricing problem under unknown demand models. In this problem a seller offers prices to a stream of customers and observes either success or failure in each sale attempt. The underlying demand model is unknown to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-30 Pouya Tehrani , Yixuan Zhai , Qing Zhao

Many online companies sell advertisement space in second-price auctions with reserve. In this paper, we develop a probabilistic method to learn a profitable strategy to set the reserve price. We use historical auction data with features to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-25 Maja R. Rudolph , Joseph G. Ellis , David M. Blei

In this paper, we consider an infinite horizon, continuous-review, stochastic inventory system in which cumulative customers' demand is price-dependent and is modeled as a Brownian motion. Excess demand is backlogged. The revenue is earned…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Dacheng Yao

Item Price Elasticity is used to quantify the responsiveness of consumer demand to changes in item prices, enabling businesses to create pricing strategies and optimize revenue management. Sectors such as store retail, e-commerce, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Lakshya Garg , Sai Yaswanth , Deep Narayan Mishra , Karthik Kumaran , Anupriya Sharma , Mayank Uniyal

A novel high-frequency market-making approach in discrete time is proposed that admits closed-form solutions. By taking advantage of demand functions that are linear in the quoted bid and ask spreads with random coefficients, we model the…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2024-05-21 Jonathan Chávez-Casillas , José E. Figueroa-López , Chuyi Yu , Yi Zhang

In this article, we investigate a dynamic control problem of a production-inventory system. Here, demands arrive at the production unit according to a Poisson process and are processed in an FCFS manner. The processing time of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Subrata Golui , Chandan Pal , Manikandan R. , Abhay Sobhanan

This paper introduces a novel contextual bandit algorithm for personalized pricing under utility fairness constraints in scenarios with uncertain demand, achieving an optimal regret upper bound. Our approach, which incorporates dynamic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-29 Xi Chen , David Simchi-Levi , Yining Wang

We consider an agent who needs to buy (or sell) a relatively small amount of asset over some fixed short time interval. We work at the highest frequency meaning that we wish to find the optimal tactic to execute our quantity using limit…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2018-03-16 Charles-Albert Lehalle , Othmane Mounjid , Mathieu Rosenbaum

In this paper, we introduce a Bayesian revenue-maximizing mechanism design model where the items have fixed, exogenously-given prices. Buyers are unit-demand and have an ordinal ranking over purchasing either one of these items at its given…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Will Ma

Strategic product placement can have a strong influence on customer purchase behavior in physical stores as well as online platforms. Motivated by this, we consider the problem of optimizing the placement of substitutable products in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Omar El Housni , Rajan Udwani

Dynamic pricing is commonly used to regulate congestion in shared service systems. This paper is motivated by the fact that in the presence of users with varying price sensitivity (responsiveness), conventional monotonic pricing can lead to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Yingqing Chen , Anni Li , Christos G. Cassandras , Homayoun Hamedmoghadam , Fabian Wirth , Robert Shorten

We revisit the problem of large-scale assortment optimization under the multinomial logit choice model without any assumptions on the structure of the feasible assortments. Scalable real-time assortment optimization has become essential in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Deeksha Sinha , Theja Tulabandhula

This paper examines whether one can learn to play an optimal action while only knowing part of true specification of the environment. We choose the optimal pricing problem as our laboratory, where the monopolist is endowed with an…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-07-22 In-Koo Cho , Jonathan Libgober

In this paper, we propose a realistic multiple dynamic pricing approach to demand response in the retail market. First, an adaptive clustering-based customer segmentation framework is proposed to categorize customers into different groups…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-11 Fanlin Meng , Qian Ma , Zixu Liu , Xiao-Jun Zeng

Demand response (DR) is a cost-effective and environmentally friendly approach for mitigating the uncertainties in renewable energy integration by taking advantage of the flexibility of customers' demands. However, existing DR programs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-11 Joshua Comden , Zhenhua Liu , Yue Zhao

Dynamic pricing is the practice of adjusting the selling price of a product to maximize a firm's revenue by responding to market demand. The literature typically distinguishes between two settings: infinite inventory, where the firm has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Anush Anand , Pranav Agrawal , Tejas Bodas

This paper tackles challenges in pricing and revenue projections due to consumer uncertainty. We propose a novel data-based approach for firms facing unknown consumer type distributions. Unlike existing methods, we assume firms only observe…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-05-28 Duarte Gonçalves , Bruno A. Furtado

In this paper, we demonstrate that a consumer's marginal system impact is only determined by their demand profile rather than their demand level. Demand profile clustering is identical to cluster consumers according to their marginal…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2017-01-11 Yang Yu , Guangyi Liu , Wendong Zhu , Fei Wang , Bin Shu , Kai Zhang , Ram Rajagopal , Nicolas Astier

Unexpected advertising items in sponsored search may reduce users' reliance on organic search, resulting in hidden cost for the e-commerce platform. To address this problem and promote sustainable growth, we propose a dynamic reserve price…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Mang Li

Data-driven sequential decision has found a wide range of applications in modern operations management, such as dynamic pricing, inventory control, and assortment optimization. Most existing research on data-driven sequential decision…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-01 Yining Wang , Xi Chen , Xiangyu Chang , Dongdong Ge