arXiv AI

Lines and Ladders: A Context-Aware Multi-Agent Framework for Large-Scale Retail Price Taxonomy

arXiv:2608. 12674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Maintaining price consistency and executing an Every Day Low Price strategy is critical for global retailers.

arXiv AI
Jun 16

LLM-Powered Virtual Population for Demand Simulation and Pricing

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 Machine Learning
Jun 15

High-Frequency Pricing at Scale for E-Commerce

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 Computation and Language
Sep 10

Scaling E-Commerce Attribute Extraction with Parallel Decoding

The paper presents a two‑stage large language model pipeline for e‑commerce attribute extraction. First, it discovers a compact, ranked set of purchase‑discriminative attributes for each product category; second, it extracts those attribute values from catalog text using a fine‑tuned Qwen3‑4B model with Hyper‑Parallel Decoding. The approach attains 85% extraction accuracy while cutting inference costs by 92%, enabling scalable production use and producing consistent, comparable product knowledge bases.

By Nikhita Vedula, Dushyanta Dhyani, Bryan Wang, Shervin Malmasi
arXiv AI
Jun 26

AIGP: An LLM-Based Framework for Long-Term Value Alignment in E-Commerce Pricing

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 AI
Aug 17

MACS: A Hybrid Multi-Agent Framework for Reliable Conversational E-Commerce Recommendation

arXiv:2608. 14068v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational recommendation for e-commerce is increasingly mediated by large language models (LLMs), yet many real-world deployments operate under a stricter requirement: recommendations must be drawn only from a merchant's fixed catalog, without web search or unsupported product claims.

By Juli Huang, Hannah Clay, Sajjad Beygi, Thomas Sarda, Negin Golrezaei, Amin Saberi
arXiv AI
Aug 24

One Hierarchy, Two Systems: Semantic Product IDs for Discovery-Surface Ranking and Search-Page Query Reformulation

The paper proposes a single hierarchical Semantic ID (SID) system to unify product identification across multiple merchants in e-commerce. By learning SID representations from product content, the authors demonstrate that ranking algorithms can aggregate consumer affinity and product performance over SID prefixes, improving offline relevance and online engagement. For query reformulation, SID concepts guide navigation and refinement, yielding better intent preservation and higher-quality suggestions compared to taxonomy or raw query transitions.

By Steven Xu, Sanjyot Thete, Saathvik Dirisala, Raghav Saboo, Nimesh Sinha, Leo Shao, Elyse Winer, Sudeep Das, Martin Wang, Kyle MacDonald
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 28

Natural-Language Policies to Executable Decisions: An Interpretable Large Language Model Framework

The paper introduces a production‑grade large language model (LLM) pricing system for the tourism industry that separates structured extraction and policy selection from deterministic numeric pricing. Policies are compiled into interpretable condition trees, allowing new clauses and evolving rules to be added without code changes while maintaining auditability. Deployed across 12 business categories and 1,500 operators, the system handled 3,960 orders in six months, cutting the order‑management team from 15‑20 to 3 and reducing per‑order handling time from 10 minutes to under 2 minutes.

By Ziqiang Zhang, Jing Ma, Zilong Wang, Jiayuan Chen, Yi Qiao, Yu He, Wei Zhang, Dai Cheng, Xiaoyu Shen