The paper introduces the Integrable Context-Dependent Demand Network (ICDN), a neural model that predicts multiproduct retail demand by learning log‑demand as a smooth, context‑conditioned function of log‑prices. This approach allows elasticities to be derived exactly from the learned demand surface, yielding analytically tractable and economically regularized own‑ and cross‑price responses. Across three retail datasets, ICDN achieves competitive out‑of‑sample prediction performance.
arXiv:2609.14718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Demand forecasting is critical in modern industry, offering opportunities to reduce costs and gain competitive advantage through improved inventory man...
arXiv:2609.06085v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding the joint dynamics of prices and trades is central to market microstructure, where returns and order flow interact through nonlinear an...
arXiv:2608. 12680v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Item demand forecasting is an integral component of store assortment optimization.
arXiv:2505. 16319v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate demand estimation is critical for the retail business in guiding the inventory and pricing policies of perishable products.
arXiv:2505. 16319v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate demand estimation is critical for the retail business in guiding the inventory and pricing policies of perishable products.
The paper proposes a neural‑network algorithm for contextual electricity pricing, framing the problem as a Stackelberg game and using a mean‑field solution to learn constrained mappings from contextual features (e.g., weather, sunrise/sunset, day‑of‑week) to feasible price signals. The method is validated through simulations of the energy grid in several U.S. cities, demonstrating that incorporating rich contextual information can significantly enhance the value of demand‑response programs.
arXiv:2607. 16354v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retail demand forecasting remains difficult when demand shifts faster than static forecasting models can be retrained, especially in early demand cycles where newly observed labels are sparse.
arXiv:2608. 03142v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study contextual dynamic pricing with arbitrary covariate sequences and bounded, possibly nonbinary purchase quantities.
arXiv:2606. 08314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The coffee supply chain is one of the most complex agri-food networks, marked by geographically dispersed production, multi-tier coordination, and high sensitivity to quality and freshness.
arXiv:2607. 13331v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retail demand forecasts are reused across replenishment, capacity, labor, and transportation planning cycles.
While publicly available electricity market data presents a valuable resource for forecasting research, the field lacks established benchmark datasets for standardized comparison. As a result, many st...
The paper presents a comparative study of six deep learning models—state-space, MLP, RNN, and Transformer-based architectures—for cross-border electricity price forecasting using publicly available data. It focuses on generalization across markets and evaluates performance under low-data target-market conditions (zero-shot, one-shot, few-shot) with a standardized dataset for the Germany‑Luxembourg bidding zone in 2024. Results show that N‑HiTS and NBEATSx perform competitively in limited‑data scenarios, while transformer models achieve comparable accuracy but require more adaptation and tuning, and that careful feature selection and hyperparameter tuning improve performance.