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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

This article describes techniques employed in the production of a synthetic dataset of driver telematics emulated from a similar real insurance dataset. The synthetic dataset generated has 100,000 policies that included observations about…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-02 Banghee So , Jean-Philippe Boucher , Emiliano A. Valdez

A high-quality, comprehensive product catalog is essential to the success of Product Search engines and shopping sites such as Yahoo! Shopping, Google Product Search or Bing Shopping. But keeping catalogs up-to-date becomes a challenging…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-05-24 Hoa Nguyen , Ariel Fuxman , Stelios Paparizos , Juliana Freire , Rakesh Agrawal

This paper addresses the challenges of data scarcity and high acquisition costs in training robust object detection models for complex industrial environments, such as offshore oil platforms. Data collection in these hazardous settings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Pedro Antonio Rabelo Saraiva , Enzo Ferreira de Souza , Joao Manoel Herrera Pinheiro , Thiago H. Segreto , Ricardo V. Godoy , Marcelo Becker

Intelligent agents offer a new and exciting way of understanding the world of work. In this paper we apply agent-based modeling and simulation to investigate a set of problems in a retail context. Specifically, we are working to understand…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Peer-Olaf Siebers , Uwe Aickelin , Helen Celia , Christopher Clegg

Behavioural biometric authentication systems entail an enrolment period that is burdensome for the user. In this work, we explore generating synthetic gestures from a few real user gestures with generative deep learning, with the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-15 George Webber , Jack Sturgess , Ivan Martinovic

This paper proposes DeepSynth, a method for effective training of deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents when the reward is sparse and non-Markovian, but at the same time progress towards the reward requires achieving an unknown sequence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Mohammadhosein Hasanbeig , Natasha Yogananda Jeppu , Alessandro Abate , Tom Melham , Daniel Kroening

In contextual dynamic pricing, a seller sequentially prices goods based on contextual information. Buyers will purchase products only if the prices are below their valuations. The goal of the seller is to design a pricing strategy that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-14 Matilde Tullii , Solenne Gaucher , Nadav Merlis , Vianney Perchet

This paper studies the estimation of ranked-list discrete choice models with single and multiple purchases. In this setting, each consumer type is characterized by a ranking over a subset of products and a desired number of purchases, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Luciano Costa , Gerardo Berbeglia , Claudio Contardo , Jean-François Cordeau

Computational models have emerged as powerful tools for multi-scale energy modeling research at the building and urban scale, supporting data-driven analysis across building and urban energy systems. However, these models require large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jackson Eshbaugh , Chetan Tiwari , Jorge Silveyra

The development of embodied agents for complex commercial environments is hindered by a critical gap in existing robotics datasets and benchmarks, which primarily focus on household or tabletop settings with short-horizon tasks. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Xu Hu , Yiyang Feng , Junran Peng , Jiawei He , Liyi Chen , Wei Sui , Chuanchen Luo , Xucheng Yin , Qing Li , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Simulation has become a key tool for training and evaluating home robots at scale, yet existing environments fail to capture the diversity and physical complexity of real indoor spaces. Current scene synthesis methods produce sparsely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Nicholas Pfaff , Thomas Cohn , Sergey Zakharov , Rick Cory , Russ Tedrake

Personalized recommender systems rely on each user's personal usage data in the system, in order to assist in decision making. However, privacy policies protecting users' rights prevent these highly personal data from being publicly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Nino Antulov-Fantulin , Matko Bosnjak , Vinko Zlatic , Miha Grcar , Tomislav Smuc

The use of dynamic pricing by profit-maximizing firms gives rise to demand fairness concerns, measured by discrepancies in consumer groups' demand responses to a given pricing strategy. Notably, dynamic pricing may result in buyer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Jesse Thibodeau , Hadi Nekoei , Afaf Taïk , Janarthanan Rajendran , Golnoosh Farnadi

Collecting large-scale egocentric video datasets with dense spatial and temporal annotations is costly, slow, and often constrained by environmental biases, privacy constraints, and limited coverage of interaction patterns. While synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Rosario Leonardi , Francesco Ragusa , Daniele Materia , Alessandro Passanisi , James Fort , Jakob Engel , Giovanni Maria Farinella

Deep vision models are now mature enough to be integrated in industrial and possibly critical applications such as autonomous navigation. Yet, data collection and labeling to train such models requires too much efforts and costs for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Estelle Chigot , Dennis G. Wilson , Meriem Ghrib , Fabrice Jimenez , Thomas Oberlin

In the rapidly evolving landscape of eCommerce, Artificial Intelligence (AI) based pricing algorithms, particularly those utilizing Reinforcement Learning (RL), are becoming increasingly prevalent. This rise has led to an inextricable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Michael Schlechtinger , Damaris Kosack , Franz Krause , Heiko Paulheim

Recent advancements in deep learning, computer vision, and embodied AI have given rise to synthetic causal reasoning video datasets. These datasets facilitate the development of AI algorithms that can reason about physical interactions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Jiafei Duan , Samson Yu Bai Jian , Cheston Tan

This paper demonstrates the potential of statistical disclosure control for protecting the data used to train recommender systems. Specifically, we use a synthetic data generation approach to hide specific information in the user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Manel Slokom , Martha Larson , Alan Hanjalic

We present a deep learning solution to address the challenges of simulating realistic synthetic first-price sealed-bid auction data. The complexities encountered in this type of auction data include high-cardinality discrete feature spaces…

General Economics · Economics 2024-11-13 Igor Sadoune , Andrea Lodi , Marcelin Joanis