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A search engine recommends to the user a list of web pages. The user examines this list, from the first page to the last, and clicks on all attractive pages until the user is satisfied. This behavior of the user can be described by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Sumeet Katariya , Branislav Kveton , Csaba Szepesvári , Zheng Wen

When designing product rankings, online retailers and platforms choose which outcome to maximize: revenues from commissions or markups, the number of transactions, or consumer welfare. These objectives need not align, creating potential…

General Economics · Economics 2026-03-26 Rafael P. Greminger

Assortment optimization is a fundamental challenge in modern retail and recommendation systems, where the goal is to select a subset of products that maximizes expected revenue under complex customer choice behaviors. While recent advances…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-11 Miao Lu , Yuxuan Han , Han Zhong , Zhengyuan Zhou , Jose Blanchet

We investigate crowdsourcing algorithms for finding the top-quality item within a large collection of objects with unknown intrinsic quality values. This is an important problem with many relevant applications, for example in networked…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Alessandro Nordio , Alberto Tarable , Emilio Leonardi , Marco Ajmone Marsan

With a novel search algorithm or assortment planning or assortment optimization algorithm that takes into account a Bayesian approach to information updating and two-stage assortment optimization techniques, the current research provides a…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-07-19 Dipankar Das

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

In online marketplaces, customers have access to hundreds of reviews for a single product. Buyers often use reviews from other customers that share their type -- such as height for clothing, skin type for skincare products, and location for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Wenshuo Guo , Nika Haghtalab , Kirthevasan Kandasamy , Ellen Vitercik

Product search is one of the most popular methods for customers to discover products online. Most existing studies on product search focus on developing effective retrieval models that rank items by their likelihood to be purchased. They,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Qingyao Ai , Yongfeng Zhang , Keping Bi , W. Bruce Croft

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

Product ranking is a crucial component for many e-commerce services. One of the major challenges in product search is the vocabulary mismatch between query and products, which may be a larger vocabulary gap problem compared to other…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Xuyang Wu , Alessandro Magnani , Suthee Chaidaroon , Ajit Puthenputhussery , Ciya Liao , Yi Fang

Most existing recommender systems leverage user behavior data of one type only, such as the purchase behavior in E-commerce that is directly related to the business KPI (Key Performance Indicator) of conversion rate. Besides the key…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Chen Gao , Xiangnan He , Dahua Gan , Xiangning Chen , Fuli Feng , Yong Li , Tat-Seng Chua , Lina Yao , Yang Song , Depeng Jin

We consider the problem of multi-product dynamic pricing, in a contextual setting, for a seller of differentiated products. In this environment, the customers arrive over time and products are described by high-dimensional feature vectors.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-19 Adel Javanmard , Hamid Nazerzadeh , Simeng Shao

In business and marketing, analyzing the reasons behind buying is a fundamental step towards understanding consumer behaviors, shaping business strategies, and predicting market outcomes. Prior research on purchase reason has relied on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Tao Chen , Siqi Zuo , Cheng Li , Mingyang Zhang , Qiaozhu Mei , Michael Bendersky

On E-commerce stores, there are rich recommendation content to help shoppers shopping more efficiently. However given numerous products, it's crucial to select most relevant content to reduce the burden of information overload. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Xin Shen , Yan Zhao , Sujan Perera , Yujia Liu , Jinyun Yan , Mitchell Goodman

The assortment problem in revenue management is the problem of deciding which subset of products to offer to consumers in order to maximise revenue. A simple and natural strategy is to select the best assortment out of all those that are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Gerardo Berbeglia , Gwenaël Joret

In this paper, we study the dynamic assortment optimization problem under a finite selling season of length $T$. At each time period, the seller offers an arriving customer an assortment of substitutable products under a cardinality…

Econometrics · Economics 2019-01-21 Xi Chen , Yining Wang , Yuan Zhou

Recommendation based on user preferences is a common task for e-commerce websites. New recommendation algorithms are often evaluated by offline comparison to baseline algorithms such as recommending random or the most popular items. Here,…

Traditional recommendation systems make recommendations based solely on the customer's past purchases, product ratings and demographic data without considering the profitability the items being recommended. In this work we study the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2009-08-27 Aparna Das , Claire Mathieu , Daniel Ricketts

Well-calibrated predictions of user preferences are essential for many applications. Since recommender systems typically select the top-N items for users, calibration for those top-N items, rather than for all items, is important. We show…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Masahiro Sato

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