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Online linear programming plays an important role in both revenue management and resource allocation, and recent research has focused on developing efficient first-order online learning algorithms. Despite the empirical success of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-07 Wenzhi Gao , Dongdong Ge , Chenyu Xue , Chunlin Sun , Yinyu Ye

Recent global and local phenomena have exposed vulnerabilities in critical supply chain networks (SCNs), drawing significant attention from researchers across various fields. Typically, SCNs are viewed as static entities regularly optimized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Shirantha Welikala , Hai Lin , Panos J. Antsaklis

The two-echelon inventory-routing problem (2E-IRP) addresses the coordination of inventory management and freight transportation throughout a two-echelon supply network. The latter consists of geographically widespread customers whose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-29 Sara Charaf , Duygu Taş , Simme Douwe Flapper , Tom van Woensel

Continual learning is the problem of learning and retaining knowledge through time over multiple tasks and environments. Research has primarily focused on the incremental classification setting, where new tasks/classes are added at discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Zhipeng Cai , Ozan Sener , Vladlen Koltun

In this paper, we consider groups of agents in a network that select actions in order to satisfy a set of constraints that vary arbitrarily over time and minimize a time-varying function of which they have only local observations. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Santiago Paternain , Soomin Lee , Michael M. Zavlanos , Alejandro Ribeiro

Organisations often struggle to identify the causes of change in metrics such as product quality and delivery duration. This task becomes increasingly challenging when the cause lies outside of company borders in multi-echelon supply chains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Stefan Schoepf , Jack Foster , Alexandra Brintrup

Crucial performance metrics of a caching algorithm include its ability to quickly and accurately learn a popularity distribution of requests. However, a majority of work on analytical performance analysis focuses on hit probability after an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Archana Bura , Desik Rengarajan , Dileep Kalathil , Srinivas Shakkottai , Jean-Francois Chamberland-Tremblay

Most existing literature on supply chain and inventory management consider stochastic demand processes with zero or constant lead times. While it is true that in certain niche scenarios, uncertainty in lead times can be ignored, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Hardik Meisheri , Somjit Nath , Mayank Baranwal , Harshad Khadilkar

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

The development of online algorithms to track time-varying systems has drawn a lot of attention in the last years, in particular in the framework of online convex optimization. Meanwhile, sparse time-varying optimization has emerged as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Sophie M. Fosson

Online linear programming plays an important role in both revenue management and resource allocation, and recent research has focused on developing efficient first-order online learning algorithms. Despite the empirical success of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Wenzhi Gao , Chunlin Sun , Chenyu Xue , Dongdong Ge , Yinyu Ye

In this paper, we propose an online learning-based predictive control (LPC) approach designed for nonlinear systems that lack explicit system dynamics. Unlike traditional model predictive control (MPC) algorithms that rely on known system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Yuanqing Zhang , Huanshui Zhang

We develop a control algorithm that ensures the safety, in terms of confinement in a set, of a system with unknown, 2nd-order nonlinear dynamics. The algorithm establishes novel connections between data-driven and robust, nonlinear control.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-17 Christos K. Verginis , Franck Djeumou , Ufuk Topcu

We study the management of product transitions in a semiconductor manufacturing firm that requires the coordination of resource allocation decisions by multiple, autonomous Product Divisions using a multi-follower bilevel model to capture…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-02-01 Rahman Khorramfar , Osman Ozaltin , Reha Uzsoy , Karl Kempf

The recent rising popularity of ultra-fast delivery services on retail platforms fuels the increasing use of urban warehouses, whose proximity to customers makes fast deliveries viable. The space limit in urban warehouses poses a problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-06 Rong Jin , David Simchi-Levi , Li Wang , Xinshang Wang , Sen Yang

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

We study online linear regression problems in a distributed setting, where the data is spread over a network. In each round, each network node proposes a linear predictor, with the objective of fitting the \emph{network-wide} data. It then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Deming Yuan , Alexandre Proutiere , Guodong Shi

This letter studies the problem of online multi-step-ahead prediction for unknown linear stochastic systems. Using conditional distribution theory, we derive an optimal parameterization of the prediction policy as a linear function of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jiachen Qian , Yang Zheng

We study various discrete nonlinear combinatorial optimization problems in an online learning framework. In the first part, we address the question of whether there are negative results showing that getting a vanishing (or even vanishing…

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