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Learning user preferences for products based on their past purchases or reviews is at the cornerstone of modern recommendation engines. One complication in this learning task is that some users are more likely to purchase products or review…

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Until recently obtaining data on populations of networks was typically rare. However, with the advancement of automatic monitoring devices and the growing social and scientific interest in networks, such data has become more widely…

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We model a market in which nonstrategic vendors sell items of different types and offer bundles at discounted prices triggered by demand volumes. Each buyer acts strategically in order to maximize her utility, given by the difference…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Lorenzo Coviello , Yiling Chen , Massimo Franceschetti

Discrete-choice models are used in economics, marketing and revenue management to predict customer purchase probabilities, say as a function of prices and other features of the offered assortment. While they have been shown to be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Hanzhao Wang , Zhongze Cai , Xiaocheng Li , Kalyan Talluri

It is often of interest to perform clustering on longitudinal data, yet it is difficult to formulate an intuitive model for which estimation is computationally feasible. We propose a model-based clustering method for clustering objects that…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-19 Daniel K. Sewell , Yuguo Chen , William Bernhard , Tracy Sulkin

Given data on the choices made by consumers for different offer sets, a key challenge is to develop parsimonious models that describe and predict consumer choice behavior while being amenable to prescriptive tasks such as pricing and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-15 Yanqiu Ruan , Xiaobo Li , Karthyek Murthy , Karthik Natarajan

We study a data pricing problem, where a seller has access to $N$ homogeneous data points (e.g. drawn i.i.d. from some distribution). There are $m$ types of buyers in the market, where buyers of the same type $i$ have the same valuation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Keran Chen , Joon Suk Huh , Kirthevasan Kandasamy

Finding the optimal (revenue-maximizing) mechanism to sell multiple items has been a prominent and notoriously difficult open problem. Existing work has mainly focused on deriving analytical results tailored to a particular class of…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-01-09 Kento Hashimoto , Keita Kuwahara , Reo Nonaka

Retailers have significant potential to improve recommendations through strategic bundling and pricing. By taking into account different types of customers and their purchasing decisions, retailers can better accommodate customer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Maxime Bouscary , Mazen Danaf , Saurabh Amin

We study the problem when a firm sets prices for products based on the transaction data, i.e., which product past customers chose from an assortment and what were the historical prices that they observed. Our approach does not impose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Ningyuan Chen , Andre Cire , Ming Hu , Saman Lagzi

We study an assortment optimization problem under a multi-purchase choice model in which customers choose a bundle of up to one product from each of two product categories. Different bundles have different utilities and the bundle price is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Xin Chen , Jiachun Li , Menglong Li , Tiancheng Zhao , Yuan Zhou

Problem definition. In retailing, discrete choice models (DCMs) are commonly used to capture the choice behavior of customers when offered an assortment of products. When estimating DCMs using transaction data, flexible models (such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Ningyuan Chen , Guillermo Gallego , Zhuodong Tang

Bundle recommendation aims to enhance business profitability and user convenience by suggesting a set of interconnected items. In real-world scenarios, leveraging the impact of asymmetric item affiliations is crucial for effective bundle…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Huy-Son Nguyen , Tuan-Nghia Bui , Long-Hai Nguyen , Hoang Manh-Hung , Cam-Van Thi Nguyen , Hoang-Quynh Le , Duc-Trong Le

We consider a setting where $n$ buyers, with combinatorial preferences over $m$ items, and a seller, running a priority-based allocation mechanism, repeatedly interact. Our goal, from observing limited information about the results of these…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Avrim Blum , Yishay Mansour , Jamie Morgenstern

Product bundling, offering a combination of items to customers, is one of the marketing strategies commonly used in online e-commerce and offline retailers. A high-quality bundle generalizes frequent items of interest, and diversity across…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Jinze Bai , Chang Zhou , Junshuai Song , Xiaoru Qu , Weiting An , Zhao Li , Jun Gao

Recent increase in online privacy concerns prompts the following question: can a recommender system be accurate if users do not entrust it with their private data? To answer this, we study the problem of learning item-clusters under local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Siddhartha Banerjee , Nidhi Hegde , Laurent Massoulié

Bundle recommendation aims to recommend a bundle of related items to users, which can satisfy the users' various needs with one-stop convenience. Recent methods usually take advantage of both user-bundle and user-item interactions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Yunshan Ma , Yingzhi He , An Zhang , Xiang Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

A number of products are sold in the following sequence: First a focal product is shown, and if the customer purchases, one or more ancillary products are displayed for purchase. A prominent example is the sale of an airline ticket, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Hanzhao Wang , Xiaocheng Li , Kalyan Talluri

We focus on online second price auctions, where bids are made sequentially, and the winning bidder pays the maximum of the second-highest bid and a seller specified starting price. For many such auctions, the seller does not see all the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-23 Sourav Mukherjee , Ziqian Yang , Rohit K Patra , Kshitij Khare