arXiv:2606. 06201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pharmaceutical supply chains (PSCs) struggle with inventory management (IM) due to unpredictable demand patterns and variable lead times associated with restocking.
By Amandeep Kaur, Gyan Prakash
arXiv:2602. 03778v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Tail-end risk measures such as static conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) are used in safety-critical applications to prevent rare, yet catastrophic events.
By Aneri Muni, Vincent Taboga, Esther Derman, Pierre-Luc Bacon, Erick Delage
arXiv:2607. 09298v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study general-utility Markov decision processes (GUMDPs) with risk-aware objectives.
By Pedro P. Santos, F\'abio Vital, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo
arXiv:2606. 20206v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In offline Reinforcement Learning, immediate rewards in logged batch data are often unobserved due to sparse or irregular record-keeping, or censored beyond certain reward values.
By Ziheng Wei, Annie Qu, Rui Miao
arXiv:2606. 25593v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study optimal-policy geometry in structured Markov decision processes.
By Fredy Pokou (CRIStAL)
arXiv:2606. 10979v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many Markov decision processes (MDPs) in operations research have feasible actions that are state dependent and defined implicitly by various operational constraints.
By Yi Chen (Lucy), Rushuai Yang (Lucy), Qiang Chen (Lucy), Dongyan (Lucy), Huo
arXiv:2504. 01482v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper develops a model-based framework for continuous-time policy evaluation (CTPE) in reinforcement learning, incorporating both Brownian and L\'evy noise to model stochastic dynamics influenced by rare and extreme events.
By Qihao Ye, Xiaochuan Tian, Yuhua Zhu
arXiv:2602. 05799v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study non-stationary single-item, periodic-review inventory control problems in which the demand distribution is unknown and may change over time.
By Nele H. Amiri, Sean R. Sinclair, Maximiliano Udenio
We study optimal-policy geometry in structured Markov decision processes. While approximate dynamic programming and reinforcement learning typically approximate high-dimensional value functions, we show that optimal policies induce simpler decision tessellations.
arXiv:2608. 01151v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we consider stochastic optimal control problems with infinite-horizon joint chance constraints.
By Francesco Cordiano, Kanghui He, Bart De Schutter
arXiv:2606. 14679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online inventory optimization (OIO) is online convex optimization with physical memory: inventory carryover makes the feasible action set depend on the past.
By Anthony Pineci, Yunzong Xu
arXiv:2510. 19528v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We investigate the fundamental problem of leveraging offline data to accelerate online reinforcement learning - a direction with strong potential but limited theoretical grounding.
By Sebastian Reboul, H\'el\`ene Halconruy