English
Related papers

Related papers: Integrated Bundling and Pricing of Unique Items

200 papers

Product bundling is a common selling mechanism used in online retailing. To set profitable bundle prices, the seller needs to learn consumer preferences from the transaction data. When customers purchase bundles or multiple products,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-13 Ningyuan Chen , Setareh Farajollahzadeh , Guan Wang

We consider a profit maximization problem in an urban mobility on-demand service, of which the operator owns a fleet, provides both exclusive and shared trip services, and dynamically determines prices of offers. With knowledge of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Han Qiu , Ruimin Li , Jinhua Zhao

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 study approximation algorithms for revenue maximization based on static item pricing, where a seller chooses prices for various goods in the market, and then the buyers purchase utility-maximizing bundles at these given prices. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Elliot Anshelevich , Shreyas Sekar

Recent advances in product bundling have leveraged multimodal information through sophisticated encoders, but remain constrained by limited semantic understanding and a narrow scope of knowledge. Therefore, some attempts employ In-context…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Xiaohao Liu , Jie Wu , Zhulin Tao , Yunshan Ma , Yinwei Wei , Tat-seng Chua

We consider a dynamic assortment selection problem where a seller has a fixed inventory of $N$ substitutable products and faces an unknown demand that arrives sequentially over $T$ periods. In each period, the seller needs to decide on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Abdellah Aznag , Vineet Goyal , Noemie Perivier

In this paper, we consider a realistic and meaningful scenario in the context of smart grids where an electricity retailer serves three different types of customers, i.e., customers with an optimal home energy management system embedded in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Fanlin Meng , Xiao-Jun Zeng , Yan Zhang , Chris J. Dent , Dunwei Gong

In this study, we investigate the problem of dynamic multi-product selection and pricing by introducing a novel framework based on a \textit{censored multinomial logit} (C-MNL) choice model. In this model, sellers present a set of products…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-04 Jung-hun Kim , Min-hwan Oh

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

In the present work we tackle the problem of finding the optimal price tariff to be set by a risk-averse electric retailer participating in the pool and whose customers are price-sensitive. We assume that the retailer has access to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Román Pérez-Santalla , Miguel Carrión , Carlos Ruiz

The rise of big data analytics has automated the decision-making of companies and increased supply chain agility. In this paper, we study the supply chain contract design problem faced by a data-driven supplier who needs to respond to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Xuejun Zhao , Ruihao Zhu , William B. Haskell

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

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

Key challenges in running a retail business include how to select products to present to consumers (the assortment problem), and how to price products (the pricing problem) to maximize revenue or profit. Instead of considering these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-19 Junhui Cai , Ran Chen , Martin J. Wainwright , Linda Zhao

In recent years, bundle recommendation systems have gained significant attention in both academia and industry due to their ability to enhance user experience and increase sales by recommending a set of items as a bundle rather than…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Meng Sun , Lin Li , Ming Li , Xiaohui Tao , Dong Zhang , Qing Xie , Peipei Wang , Jimmy Xiangji Huang

This paper is concerned with personalized pricing models aimed at maximizing the expected revenues or profits for a single item. While it is essential for personalized pricing to predict the purchase probabilities for each consumer, these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Shunnosuke Ikeda , Naoki Nishimura , Noriyoshi Sukegawa , Yuichi Takano

We consider assortment and inventory planning problems with dynamic stockout-based substitution effects, and without replenishment, in two different settings: (1) Customers can see all available products when they arrive, a typical scenario…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Shuo Sun , Rajan Udwani , Zuo-Jun Max Shen

We model a market in which nonstrategic vendors sell items of different types and offer bundles at discounted prices triggered by demand volumes. Each buyer acts strategically in order to maximize her utility, given by the difference…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Lorenzo Coviello , Yiling Chen , Massimo Franceschetti

We study the problem of optimizing assortment decisions in the presence of product-specific costs when customers choose according to a multinomial logit model. This problem is NP-hard and approximate solutions methods have been proposed in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Markus Leitner , Andrea Lodi , Roberto Roberti , Claudio Sole

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