arXiv:2609.06083v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: To make optimal joint pricing and inventory control decisions is a critical challenge for modern retailers. In practice, retailers face changing market...
By Zean Han, Zezhen Ding, Jiheng Zhang
The paper presents a data‑driven framework for multi‑period lost‑sales inventory control when demand is censored, meaning stockouts only reveal that demand exceeded the stocking level. It introduces a new cost decomposition for base‑stock policies and a biased sample‑average approximation (SAA) method, leading to two algorithms: an upper‑biased SAA that achieves near‑optimal sample complexity under an offline coverage condition, and a lower‑biased SAA that actively generates coverage to achieve near‑optimal online regret. The biased SAA approach offers a general principle for applying pessimism and optimism in settings with censored feedback.
By Yuxuan Han, Xiaoyu Fan, Jiawei Zhang, Zhengyuan Zhou
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
arXiv:2608. 14096v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The one-warehouse multi-store (OWMS) system is a fundamental inventory network in which a nonreplenishable warehouse allocates shared stock across multiple stores over time.
By Jiameng Lyu
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. 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.
By Zhiwei Lei, Benedict Jun Ma, Ilya Jackson
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: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:2609.00710v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: An LLM application often sells or internally allocates several service products: a small or premium model, a short or long token cap, and possibly mu...
By Patrick Wong
arXiv:2501. 18049v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study online learning for a seller that jointly chooses per-period inventory positions and a uniform price, then fulfills realized demand through a downstream allocation.
By Jianyu Xu, Xuan Wang, Yu-Xiang Wang, Jiashuo Jiang
arXiv:2608. 03142v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study contextual dynamic pricing with arbitrary covariate sequences and bounded, possibly nonbinary purchase quantities.
By Xueping Gong, Zhuoluo Zhang, Zhaowei Miao, Jiheng Zhang
arXiv:2607. 24115v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the contextual dynamic pricing problem under non-stationarity, where a firm sells products to $T$ sequentially arriving consumers that behave according to an unknown demand model that can change over time.
By Feiyu Jiang, Zifeng Zhao