Agentic AI is shifting online shopping from search toward delegated purchasing, where autonomous buying agents monitor markets and decide when to buy on a consumer's behalf. We study the design of such strategic buying agents, which must decide when to purchase within a finite shopping window, translating price observations, the remaining time horizon, and beliefs about future price changes into a purchase policy.
arXiv:2601. 01279v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: When competing sellers delegate pricing to a shared AI model, such as a large language model, correlated recommendations combined with performance-driven updates aggregating seller feedback raise a key question: can standard AI deployment practices inadvertently produce supracompetitive pricing?
By Shengyu Cao, Ming Hu
arXiv:2512. 09850v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce Conformal Bandits, a novel framework integrating Conformal Prediction (CP) into bandit problems, a classic paradigm for sequential decision-making under uncertainty.
By Simone Cuonzo, Nina Deliu
arXiv:2605. 00369v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study how large language models can be used to generate inventory policies in online settings with non-stationary demand.
By Chenyu Huang, Jianghao Lin, Zhengyang Tang, Bo Jiang, Ruoqing Jiang, Benyou Wang, Lai Wei
arXiv:2606. 02595v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic pricing in short-term rental (STR) markets presents a distinctive challenge for online learning algorithms: pricing decisions carry significant financial risk, operators require explainability, and market feedback is sparse (one booking outcome per listed night).
By Oleg Miroshnichenko
arXiv:2607. 10207v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data-driven optimization often requires collecting data to estimate uncertain model parameters before solving the underlying decision problem.
By Xin Li, Juergen Branke, Xuan Vinh Doan