arXiv Machine Learning

From Confounding to Learning: Dynamic Service Fee Pricing on Third-Party Platforms

arXiv:2512. 22749v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study the pricing behavior of third-party platforms facing strategic agents.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 3

Human-in-the-Loop Contextual Bandits for Short-Term Rental Dynamic Pricing: Structural Equivalence of Historical Warm-Up and Approval-Gated Live Learning

arXiv:2606. 02595v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic pricing in short-term rental (STR) markets presents a distinctive challenge for online learning algorithms: pricing decisions carry significant financial risk, operators require explainability, and market feedback is sparse (one booking outcome per listed night).

By Oleg Miroshnichenko
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago

Learning to Price with Persuasion

arXiv:2608. 16699v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Motivated by modern marketplaces, where the platform or the seller routinely gathers detailed user profiles, we study a novel learning theoretic model that simultaneously involves information and mechanism design.

By Maria-Florina Balcan, Tejas Pagare, Karan Singh
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 8

Learning Fair Demand Models

arXiv:2606. 06830v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data-driven pricing is increasingly prevalent in sectors such as airlines, lending, insurance, and retail.

By Adam N. Elmachtoub, Hyemi Kim, Jonathan Y. Tan