arXiv:2402. 06158v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In the rapidly evolving landscape of retail, assortment planning plays a crucial role in determining the success of a business.
arXiv:2608. 11419v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assortment optimization is a fundamental problem in revenue management, typically addressed using parametric choice models such as the multinomial logit (MNL) and its variants.
arXiv:2606. 11118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study a dynamic assortment problem on a two-sided service platform with incomplete information and heterogeneous customers in a discrete-time setting.
arXiv:2507. 10834v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Assortment optimization seeks to select a subset of substitutable products, subject to constraints, to maximize expected revenue.
The paper introduces a robust framework for assortment optimization that addresses distributional shifts in customer choice behavior. It demonstrates computational tractability when the nominal choice model is known and develops statistically optimal algorithms for the data‑driven setting, providing matching upper and lower bounds on sample complexity. The authors identify "robust item‑wise coverage" as the minimal data requirement for efficient robust learning, bridging robustness and statistical efficiency in assortment planning.
arXiv:2301.12254v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Assortment optimization has received active explorations in the past few decades due to its practical importance. Despite the extensive liter...
arXiv:2608. 09282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world shopping often requires constructing a basket of complementary items rather than retrieving a single product.
The paper tackles a ranking and selection problem where a company learns from choice-based feedback presented in dynamic assortments. It introduces two efficient algorithms—Nested Elimination for best-item identification and Nested Partition for full-ranking identification—each with instance-specific, non-asymptotic sample-complexity guarantees that are asymptotically worst-case optimal. The authors analyze the algorithms via multi-dimensional random walks, extend the framework to capacity-constrained displays, and validate their results with synthetic and real data experiments.
arXiv:2606. 13741v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents the design, development, and implementation of a specialized forecast-then-optimize algorithmic pricing tool for sales campaigns in fashion e-commerce.
arXiv:2607. 11684v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing contextual multinomial logit (MNL) bandits model relevance-driven choice but ignore the potential benefits of within-assortment diversity, while submodular/combinatorial bandits encode diversity in rewards but lack structured choice probabilities.
arXiv:2606. 09896v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In modern online advertising platforms, Guaranteed Delivery (GD) contracts coexist and bid with Real-Time Bidding (RTB) auctions.
arXiv:2608. 12680v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Item demand forecasting is an integral component of store assortment optimization.
A commercial incentive need not enter the final ranking algorithm to affect a shopping assistant's recommendation: it may instead influence which preference question the assistant asks. We make this d...