arXiv:2606. 02004v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Consumer-price measurement increasingly draws on alternative data sources -- scanner, web-scraped, and transaction/receipt data.
By Vladimir Beskorovainyi
arXiv:2606. 26787v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional dynamic pricing models in large-scale e-commerce suffer from limited interpretability, poor utilization of unstructured information, and misalignment with long-term business objectives such as cumulative Gross Merchandise Value (GMV), Return on Investment (ROI) and milestone achievement.
By Chennan Ma, Yanning Zhang, Siqi Hong, Xiuchong Wang, Fei Xiao, Keping Yang
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.
By Yangyang Wang, Jiawei Gu, Li Long, Xin Li, Li Shen, Zhouyu Fu, Xiangjun Zhou, Xu Jiang
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.
By Yangyang Wang, Jiawei Gu, Li Long, Xin Li, Li Shen, Zhouyu Fu, Xiangjun Zhou, Xu Jiang
arXiv:2606. 17805v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data acquisition is a major bottleneck for learning in real-time streams: analysts must decide on the fly which labels to purchase while respecting a rolling budget.
By Xiwen Huang, Pierre Pinson
arXiv:2606. 16183v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We develop an LLM-powered virtual population model that simulates demand for pricing decisions, in settings where products are described by rich unstructured information, such as text descriptions and images, and where decision makers need not only mean-demand predictions but also uncertainty estimates for counterfactual prices.
By Chengpiao Huang, Kaizheng Wang
arXiv:2608. 07949v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous agents increasingly rely on external data to complete downstream tasks such as model training and decision support.
By Yifan Wu, Yuchen Peng, Jiaqi Chai, Yufei Qian, Xilin Li, Ke Chen, Lidan Shou
arXiv:2209. 04942v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Problem definition: This paper studies the problem of estimating consumer preferences from bundle sales data.
By Ningyuan Chen, Setareh Farajollahzadeh, Qingwei Jin, Fanni Shen, Guan Wang
arXiv:2607. 01647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data science aims to derive actionable insights from heterogeneous raw data, unlocking the value of the massive amounts of data generated in modern society.
By Zhaoyan Sun, Shan Zhong, Daizhou Wen, Jiaxing Han, Guoliang Li, Ying Yan, Peng Zhang, Yu Su, Xiang Qi, Baolin Sun, Chengyuan Yang, Tao Fang, Huaiyu Ruan
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.
By Stefan Birr, Tobias Huelden, Mones Raslan, Adele Gouttes, Andreas Schmitt, Mateusz Koren, Johannes Stephan, Robert Streek, Manuel Kunz, Tim Januschowski
arXiv:2604. 05845v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Auto-bidding services optimize real-time bidding strategies for advertisers under key performance indicator (KPI) constraints such as target return on investment and budget.
By Linghui Meng, Chun Gan, Shengsheng Niu, Chengcheng Zhang, Chenchen Li, Chuan Yang, Yi Mao, Xin Zhu, Jie He, Zhangang Lin, Ching Law
arXiv:2607. 09802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The escalating demand for Machine Learning (ML) training resources in recent years has resulted in a substantial gap between the high demand and the available supply.
By Balasubramanian Sivan, Renato Paes Leme, Mihai Tiuca, Ian McFarlane, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Nehal Mehta, Soheil Hassas Yeganeh, Vahab Mirrokni, Amin Vahdat