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Assortment optimization is an important problem that arises in many industries such as retailing and online advertising where the goal is to find a subset of products from a universe of substitutable products which maximize seller's…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-12-15 Kumar Goutam , Vineet Goyal , Agathe Soret

We study the multinomial logit (MNL) bandit problem, where at each time step, the seller offers an assortment of size at most $K$ from a pool of $N$ items, and the buyer purchases an item from the assortment according to a MNL choice model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Jiaqi Yang

We study a submodular maximization problem motivated by applications in online retail. A platform displays a list of products to a user in response to a search query. The user inspects the first $k$ items in the list for a $k$ chosen at…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Arash Asadpour , Rad Niazadeh , Amin Saberi , Ali Shameli

Selecting which products to display and at what prices is a central decision in retail and e-commerce operations. In many applications, these two choices must be made jointly under limited display capacity and uncertain customer demand. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Yunfan Zhang , Yuxuan Han , Hongyu Shan , Jose Blanchet , Zhengyuan Zhou

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 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 study assortment and price optimization under the generalized nested logit (GNL) model, one of the most general and flexible modeling frameworks in discrete choice modeling. Despite its modeling advantages, optimization under GNL is…

General Economics · Economics 2026-01-09 Hoang Giang Pham , Tien Mai

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

While single-purchase choice models have been widely studied in assortment optimization, customers in modern retail and e-commerce environments often purchase multiple items across distinct product categories, exhibiting both substitution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Omar El Housni , Shuo Sun , Rajan Udwani

We consider a sequential assortment selection problem where the user choice is given by a multinomial logit (MNL) choice model whose parameters are unknown. In each period, the learning agent observes a $d$-dimensional contextual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-26 Min-hwan Oh , Garud Iyengar

We study a class of robust assortment optimization problems that was proposed by Farias, Jagabathula, and Shah (2013). The goal in these problems is to find an assortment that maximizes a firm's worst-case expected revenue under all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Bradley Sturt

We consider an online assortment problem with $[n]:=\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ sellers, each holding exactly one item $i\in[n]$ with initial inventory $c_i\in \mathbb{Z}_+$, and a sequence of homogeneous buyers arriving over a finite time horizon…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-10 S. Rasoul Etesami

We study adaptive two-sided assortment optimization for revenue maximization in choice-based matching platforms. The platform has two sides of agents, an initiating side, and a responding side. The decision-maker sequentially selects agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Mohammadreza Ahmadnejadsaein , Omar El Housni

In this paper, we investigate the capacitated assortment optimization problem with pricing under the paired combinatorial logit model, whose goal is to identify the revenue-maximizing subset of products as well as their selling prices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Daihan Zhang , Zhenghe Zhong , Chuning Gao , Rui Chen

It is well-established that increased product visibility to shoppers leads to higher sales for retailers. In this study, we propose an optimization methodology which assigns product categories and subcategories to store locations and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-20 Evren Gul , Alvin Lim , Jiefeng Xu

We study the active learning problem of top-$k$ ranking from multi-wise comparisons under the popular multinomial logit model. Our goal is to identify the top-$k$ items with high probability by adaptively querying sets for comparisons and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Xi Chen , Yuanzhi Li , Jieming Mao

We consider a class of assortment optimization problems in an offline data-driven setting. A firm does not know the underlying customer choice model but has access to an offline dataset consisting of the historically offered assortment set,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Juncheng Dong , Weibin Mo , Zhengling Qi , Cong Shi , Ethan X. Fang , Vahid Tarokh

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

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

We consider a simple approach to solving assortment optimization under the random utility maximization model. The approach uses Monte-Carlo simulation to construct a ranking-based choice model that serves as a proxy for the true choice…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Hassaan Khalid , Bradley Sturt