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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

Assortment optimization is a critical tool for online retailers aiming to maximize revenue. However, optimizing purely for revenue can lead to unbalanced sales across products, potentially causing a long tail of low-selling products and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Omar El Housni , Qing Feng , Huseyin Topaloglu

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

Assortment optimization refers to the problem of designing a slate of products to offer potential customers, such as stocking the shelves in a convenience store. The price of each product is fixed in advance, and a probabilistic choice…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Nicole Immorlica , Brendan Lucier , Jieming Mao , Vasilis Syrgkanis , Christos Tzamos

We consider an assortment optimization problem under the multinomial logit choice model with general covering constraints. In this problem, the seller offers an assortment that should contain a minimum number of products from multiple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Omar El Housni , Qing Feng , Huseyin Topaloglu

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

The assortment planning problem is a central piece in the revenue management strategy of any company in the retail industry. In this paper, we study a robust assortment optimization problem for substitutable products under a sequential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Saharnaz Mehrani , Jorge A. Sefair

Scalable real-time assortment optimization has become essential in e-commerce operations due to the need for personalization and the availability of a large variety of items. While this can be done when there are simplistic assortment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Theja Tulabandhula , Deeksha Sinha , Saketh Karra

Assortment optimization concerns the problem of selling items with fixed prices to a buyer who will purchase at most one. Typically, retailers select a subset of items, corresponding to an "assortment" of brands to carry, and make each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Will Ma

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

Optimizing the assortment of products to display to customers is a key to increasing revenue for both offline and online retailers. To trade-off between exploring customers' preference and exploiting customers' choices learned from data, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Hongbin Zhang , Yu Yang , Feng Wu , Qixin Zhang

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

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

We consider the problem of static assortment optimization, where the goal is to find the assortment of size at most $C$ that maximizes revenues. This is a fundamental decision problem in the area of Operations Management. It has been shown…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-08-19 Vivek Farias , Srikanth Jagabathula , Devavrat Shah

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

We consider assortment optimization over a continuous spectrum of products represented by the unit interval, where the seller's problem consists of determining the optimal subset of products to offer to potential customers. To describe the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-15 Yannik Peeters , Arnoud V. den Boer , Michel Mandjes

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 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

Due to numerous applications in retail and (online) advertising the problem of assortment selection has been widely studied under many combinations of discrete choice models and feasibility constraints. In many situations, however, an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Vineet Goyal , Salal Humair , Orestis Papadigenopoulos , Assaf Zeevi

Finding the optimal product prices and product assortment are two fundamental problems in revenue management. Usually, a seller needs to jointly determine the prices and assortment while managing a network of resources with limited…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Anton J. Kleywegt , Hongzhang Shao
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