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We consider an assortment optimization problem where a customer chooses a single item from a sequence of sets shown to her, while limited inventories constrain the items offered to customers over time. In the special case where all of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Elaheh Fata , Will Ma , David Simchi-Levi

We consider the dynamic assortment optimization problem under the multinomial logit model (MNL) with unknown utility parameters. The main question investigated in this paper is model mis-specification under the $\varepsilon$-contamination…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-12 Xi Chen , Akshay Krishnamurthy , Yining Wang

Price differentiation is a common strategy in many markets. In this paper, we study a static multiproduct price optimization problem with demand given by a discrete mixed multinomial logit model. By considering a mixed logit model that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Ahmadreza Marandi , Virginie Lurkin

We revisit the problem of large-scale assortment optimization under the multinomial logit choice model without any assumptions on the structure of the feasible assortments. Scalable real-time assortment optimization has become essential in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Deeksha Sinha , Theja Tulabandhula

We introduce the refined assortment optimization problem where a firm may decide to make some of its products harder to get instead of making them unavailable as in the traditional assortment optimization problem. Airlines, for example,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-02-08 Gerardo Berbeglia , Alvaro Flores , Guillermo Gallego

Motivated by modern-day applications such as Attended Home Delivery and Preference-based Group Scheduling, where decision makers wish to steer a large number of customers toward choosing the exact same alternative, we introduce a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Omar El Housni , Marouane Ibn Brahim , Danny Segev

We study the dynamic assortment planning problem, where for each arriving customer, the seller offers an assortment of substitutable products and customer makes the purchase among offered products according to an uncapacitated multinomial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-11 Xi Chen , Yining Wang , Yuan Zhou

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

In this paper we consider the problem of pricing multiple differentiated products. This is challenging as a price change in one product, not only changes the demand of that particular product, but also the demand for the other products. To…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-27 Ruben van de Geer , Sandjai Bhulai

We consider a robust version of the revenue maximization problem, where a single seller wishes to sell $n$ items to a single unit-demand buyer. In this robust version, the seller knows the buyer's marginal value distribution for each item…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Moshe Babaioff , Michal Feldman , Yannai A. Gonczarowski , Brendan Lucier , Inbal Talgam-Cohen

An opaque product is a product for which only partial information is disclosed to the buyer at the time of purchase. Opaque products are common in sectors such as travel and online retail, where the car type or product color is hidden in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Omar El Housni , Adam N. Elmachtoub , Harsh Sheth , Jiaqi Shi

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 the assortment optimization problem under the Sequential Multinomial Logit (SML), a discrete choice model that generalizes the multinomial logit (MNL). Under the SML model, products are partitioned into two levels, to capture…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Alvaro Flores , Gerardo Berbeglia , Pascal van Hentenryck

The mixed logit model is a flexible and widely used demand model in pricing and revenue management. However, existing work on mixed-logit pricing largely focuses on unconstrained settings, limiting its applicability in practice where prices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Hoang Giang Pham , Tien Mai

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

In this paper, we study the joint product sequencing and pricing problem faced by many online retailers such as Amazon. We assume that consumers' purchase behavior can be explained by a ``consider-then-choose'' model: they first form a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Shaojie Tang , Jing Yuan

In this paper, we consider a multi-stage dynamic assortment optimization problem with multi-nomial choice modeling (MNL) under resource knapsack constraints. Given the current resource inventory levels, the retailer makes an assortment…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Xi Chen , Mo Liu , Yining Wang , Yuan Zhou

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

This paper introduces a new data-driven methodology for nested logit structure discovery. Nested logit models allow the modeling of positive correlations between the error terms of the utility specifications of the different alternatives in…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-08-19 Youssef M. Aboutaleb , Moshe Ben-Akiva , Patrick Jaillet

Stochastic choice-based discrete planning is a broad class of decision-making problems characterized by a sequential decision-making process involving a planner and a group of customers. The firm or planner first decides a subset of options…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Jiajie Zhang , Yun Hui Lin , Gerardo Berbeglia