Tabular Foundation Models for Discrete Choice Estimation
arXiv:2607. 13314v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tabular foundation models (TFMs) generate predictions on structured data via in-context learning, without task-specific estimation.
arXiv:2606. 26432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular foundation models achieve strong accuracy on choice prediction tasks, but their predictions often violate the economic logic those tasks require: raising a price can increase predicted demand, implied willingness-to-pay estimates are frequently negative or implausible, and unavailable alternatives receive nonzero probability.
arXiv:2607. 13314v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tabular foundation models (TFMs) generate predictions on structured data via in-context learning, without task-specific estimation.
arXiv:2603. 24705v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Discrete choice models are fundamental tools in management science, economics, and marketing for understanding and predicting decision-making.
arXiv:2609.16952v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Feature-based multi-product pricing uses customer characteristics to identify demand heterogeneity and tailor prices across products. Choice model tr...
arXiv:2505. 18077v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Discrete choice models (DCMs) are used to analyze individual decision-making in contexts such as transportation choices, political elections, and consumer preferences.
arXiv:2207. 12877v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Motivated by the successes of deep learning, we propose a class of neural network-based discrete choice models, called RUMnets, inspired by the random utility maximization (RUM) framework.
arXiv:2607. 28854v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discrete choice modeling is a common tool used for preference elicitation during policy-making, but this is typically done through parametric models.
arXiv:2602. 09802v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in applications such as travel assistance and purchasing support, they are often required to make subjective choices on behalf of users in settings where no objectively correct answer exists.
arXiv:2608. 06137v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular data are ubiquitous in real-world applications and are crucial for data-driven prediction and decision-making across science, industry, finance, healthcare, and public services.
arXiv:2607. 11920v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluating decisions made under uncertainty is hard when labeled outcomes are scarce, costly, or confounded with luck.
Delphos is a multitask reinforcement learning framework that automates discrete choice model specification by treating it as a sequential decision-making problem. It learns transferable specification strategies across multiple transport choice datasets using a DeepSet‑Q architecture, enabling a shared policy to adapt to varying variable sets. Trained on nine datasets, Delphos outperforms single‑task agents, and when applied to unseen Swissmetro and Decisions datasets, it quickly identifies competitive specifications with higher log‑likelihoods than existing methods.
arXiv:2608. 04669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many social services assign scarce resources, such as housing assistance or hospital interventions, to people who arrive one at a time: each arrival must receive a decision immediately, and the long-run usage of every resource must stay within its capacity.
arXiv:2606. 10092v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decision-making under risk is typically studied through single-shot lottery choices.