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Assortment optimization is a critical tool for online retailers aiming to maximize revenue. However, optimizing purely for revenue can lead to unbalanced sales across products, potentially causing a long tail of low-selling products and…

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Assortment optimization has received active explorations in the past few decades due to its practical importance. Despite the extensive literature dealing with optimization algorithms and latent score estimation, uncertainty quantification…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-05 Shuting Shen , Xi Chen , Ethan X. Fang , Junwei Lu

Motivated by e-commerce, we study the online assortment optimization problem. The seller offers an assortment, i.e. a subset of products, to each arriving customer, who then purchases one or no product from her offered assortment. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Wang Chi Cheung , David Simchi-Levi

We study dynamic joint assortment and pricing where a seller updates decisions at regular accounting/operating intervals to maximize the cumulative per-period revenue over a horizon $T$. In many settings, assortment and prices affect not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-20 Junhui Cai , Ran Chen , Qitao Huang , Linda Zhao , Wu Zhu

We study a stylized dynamic assortment planning problem during a selling season of finite length $T$. At each time period, the seller offers an arriving customer an assortment of substitutable products and the customer makes the purchase…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-22 Xi Chen , Chao Shi , Yining Wang , Yuan Zhou

We consider an assortment selection and pricing problem in which a seller has $N$ different items available for sale. In each round, the seller observes a $d$-dimensional contextual preference information vector for the user, and offers to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yigit Efe Erginbas , Thomas A. Courtade , Kannan Ramchandran

We consider a principal who wishes to screen an agent with \emph{discrete} types by offering a menu of \emph{discrete} quantities and \emph{discrete} transfers. We assume that the principal's valuation is discrete strictly concave and use a…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-10-27 Alejandro Francetich , Burkhard C. Schipper

The widespread availability of behavioral data has led to the development of data-driven personalized pricing algorithms: sellers attempt to maximize their revenue by estimating the consumer's willingness-to-pay and pricing accordingly. Our…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Roy Dong , Erik Miehling , Cedric Langbort

Economic-wise, a common goal for companies conducting marketing is to maximize the return revenue/profit by utilizing the various effective marketing strategies. Consumer behavior is crucially important in economy and targeted marketing, in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Wensheng Gan , Guoting Chen , Hongzhi Yin , Philippe Fournier-Viger , Chien-Ming Chen , Philip S. Yu

Personalized pricing analytics is becoming an essential tool in retailing. Upon observing the personalized information of each arriving customer, the firm needs to set a price accordingly based on the covariates such as income, education…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Ningyuan Chen , Guillermo Gallego

Personalization is a critical task in modern intelligent systems, with applications spanning diverse domains, including interactions with large language models (LLMs). Recent advances in reasoning capabilities have significantly enhanced…

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The Random Utility Maximization model is by far the most adopted framework to estimate consumer choice behavior. However, behavioral economics has provided strong empirical evidence of irrational choice behavior, such as halo effects, that…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-09-10 Sanjay Dominik Jena , Andrea Lodi , Claudio Sole

We study revenue maximization in a buyer-seller setting where the seller has a single object and the buyer has both a private valuation and a private budget. Private budgets complicate the classic single-product monopoly problem, making…

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We consider the Item Pricing problem for revenue maximization in the limited supply setting, where a single seller with $n$ items caters to $m$ buyers with unknown subadditive valuation functions who arrive in a sequence. The seller sets…

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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…

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In continuous-choice settings, consumers decide not only on whether to purchase a product, but also on how much to purchase. Thus, firms optimize a full price schedule rather than a single price point. This paper provides a methodology to…

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We study an online joint assortment-inventory optimization problem, in which we assume that the choice behavior of each customer follows the Multinomial Logit (MNL) choice model, and the attraction parameters are unknown a priori. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yong Liang , Xiaojie Mao , Shiyuan Wang

We consider markets consisting of a set of indivisible items, and buyers that have {\em sharp} multi-unit demand. This means that each buyer $i$ wants a specific number $d_i$ of items; a bundle of size less than $d_i$ has no value, while a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Ning Chen , Xiaotie Deng , Paul. W. Goldberg , Jinshan Zhang

We study a classical problem in revenue management: quantity-based single-resource revenue management with no-shows. In this problem, a firm observes a sequence of $T$ customers requesting a service. Each arrival is drawn independently from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Daniel Freund , Jiayu Kamessi Zhao

We study a large economy in which firms cannot compute exact solutions to the non-linear equations that characterize the equilibrium price at which they can sell future output. Instead, firms use polynomial expansions to approximate prices.…

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