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We consider assortment and inventory planning problems with dynamic stockout-based substitution effects, and without replenishment, in two different settings: (1) Customers can see all available products when they arrive, a typical scenario…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Shuo Sun , Rajan Udwani , Zuo-Jun Max Shen

The rapid evolution of technology has transformed business operations and customer interactions worldwide, with personalization emerging as a key opportunity for e-commerce companies to engage customers more effectively. The application of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Miguel Alves Gomes , Philipp Meisen , Tobias Meisen

Complementary products recommendation is an important problem in e-commerce. Such recommendations increase the average order price and the number of products in baskets. Complementary products are typically inferred from basket data. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Ilya Trofimov

Product assortment selection is a critical challenge facing physical retailers. Effectively aligning inventory with the preferences of shoppers can increase sales and decrease out-of-stocks. However, in real-world settings the problem is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Porter Jenkins , Michael Selander , J. Stockton Jenkins , Andrew Merrill , Kyle Armstrong

Personalized size and fit recommendations bear crucial significance for any fashion e-commerce platform. Predicting the correct fit drives customer satisfaction and benefits the business by reducing costs incurred due to size-related…

Alternative recommender systems are critical for ecommerce companies. They guide customers to explore a massive product catalog and assist customers to find the right products among an overwhelming number of options. However, it is a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Mingming Guo , Nian Yan , Xiquan Cui , San He Wu , Unaiza Ahsan , Rebecca West , Khalifeh Al Jadda

A high-quality, comprehensive product catalog is essential to the success of Product Search engines and shopping sites such as Yahoo! Shopping, Google Product Search or Bing Shopping. But keeping catalogs up-to-date becomes a challenging…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-05-24 Hoa Nguyen , Ariel Fuxman , Stelios Paparizos , Juliana Freire , Rakesh Agrawal

Recommender systems have become an essential component of many online platforms, providing personalized recommendations to users. A crucial aspect is embedding techniques that convert the high-dimensional discrete features, such as user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Maolin Wang , Xinjian Zhao , Wanyu Wang , Sheng Zhang , Jiansheng Li , Bowen Yu , Binhao Wang , Shucheng Zhou , Dawei Yin , Qing Li , Ruocheng Guo , Xiangyu Zhao

Today, machine learning is applied in almost any field. In machine learning, where there are numerous methods, classification is one of the most basic and crucial ones. Various problems can be solved by classification. The feature selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Ahmet Tuğrul Bayrak

The main idea of this paper is to represent shopping items through vectors because these vectors act as the base for building em- beddings for customers and shopping carts. Also, these vectors are input to the mathematical models that act…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Bibek Behera , Manoj Joshi , Abhilash KK , Mohammad Ansari Ismail

E-commerce platforms surface interesting products largely through product recommendations that capture users' styles and aesthetic preferences. Curating recommendations as a complete complementary set, or assortment, is critical for a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Murium Iqbal , Adair Kovac , Kamelia Aryafar

We explore the fundamental problem of sorting through the lens of learning-augmented algorithms, where algorithms can leverage possibly erroneous predictions to improve their efficiency. We consider two different settings: In the first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Xingjian Bai , Christian Coester

In this work, we address the problem of recommending jobs to university students. For this, we explore the utilization of neural item embeddings for the task of content-based recommendation, and we propose to integrate the factors of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Emanuel Lacic , Dominik Kowald , Markus Reiter-Haas , Valentin Slawicek , Elisabeth Lex

Most eCommerce applications, like web-shops have millions of products. In this context, the identification of similar products is a common sub-task, which can be utilized in the implementation of recommendation systems, product search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Febin Sebastian Elayanithottathil , Janis Keuper

In markets where customers tend to purchase baskets of products rather than single products, assortment optimization is a major challenge for retailers. Removing a product from a retailer's assortment can result in a severe drop in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Andrey Vasilyev , Sebastian Maier , Ralf W. Seifert

Nowadays, recommender systems and search engines play an integral role in fashion e-commerce. Still, many challenges lie ahead, and this study tries to tackle some. This article first suggests a content-based fashion recommender system that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Seyed Omid Mohammadi , Hossein Bodaghi , Ahmad Kalhor

We study online learning for new products on a platform that makes capacity-constrained assortment decisions on which products to offer. For a newly listed product, its quality is initially unknown, and quality information propagates…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jackie Baek , Atanas Dinev , Thodoris Lykouris

Assembly-based tools provide a powerful modeling paradigm for non-expert shape designers. However, choosing a component from a large shape repository and aligning it to a partial assembly can become a daunting task. In this paper we…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Minhyuk Sung , Hao Su , Vladimir G. Kim , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Leonidas Guibas

Recommender systems are a vital tool that helps us to overcome the information overload problem. They are being used by most e-commerce web sites and attract the interest of a broad scientific community. A recommender system uses data on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Fei Yu , An Zeng , Sebastien Gillard , Matus Medo

Increasing aggregate diversity (or catalog coverage) is an important system-level objective in many recommendation domains where it may be desirable to mitigate the popularity bias and to improve the coverage of long-tail items in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Farzad Eskandanian , Bamshad Mobasher