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: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:2607. 13331v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retail demand forecasts are reused across replenishment, capacity, labor, and transportation planning cycles.
By Jize Li, Jiani He, Dishu Yang, Dingyan Shang, Jingjing Liu, Shiqi Huang
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:2608. 12674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Maintaining price consistency and executing an Every Day Low Price strategy is critical for global retailers.
By Ravi Teja Chunduri, Srikaran Reddy Boya, Deep Narayan Mishra, Ajay Kumar B, Karthik Kumaran, Pranay Kona
arXiv:2608. 12680v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Item demand forecasting is an integral component of store assortment optimization.
By Lakshya Garg, Deep Narayan Mishra, Swapnil Yadav, Haoan Wang, Sujal Alugubelli, Karthik Kumaran, Anupriya Sharma