Online learning via offline greedy algorithms: Applications in market design and optimization

R Niazadeh, N Golrezaei, JR Wang, F Susan… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Motivated by online decision-making in time-varying combinatorial environments, we study
the problem of transforming offline algorithms to their online counterparts. We focus on …

Learning product rankings robust to fake users

N Golrezaei, V Manshadi, J Schneider… - Proceedings of the 22nd …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In many online platforms, customers' decisions are substantially influenced by product
rankings as most customers only examine a few top-ranked products. Concurrently, such …

Learning to rank an assortment of products

KJ Ferreira, S Parthasarathy… - Management Science, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
We consider the product-ranking challenge that online retailers face when their customers
typically behave as “window shoppers.” They form an impression of the assortment after …

A nonparametric framework for online stochastic matching with correlated arrivals

A Aouad, W Ma - arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.02229, 2022 - arxiv.org
The design of online policies for stochastic matching and revenue management settings is
usually bound by the Bayesian prior that the demand process is formed by a fixed-length …

Beyond submodularity: a unified framework of randomized set selection with group fairness constraints

S Tang, J Yuan - Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Machine learning algorithms play an important role in a variety of important
decision-making processes, including targeted advertisement displays, home loan …

Revenue maximization and learning in products ranking

N Chen, A Li, S Yang - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Online retailing has seen steady growth over the last decade. According to the Digital
Commerce (formerly Internet Retailer) analysis of the US Commerce Department's year-end …

Product ranking for revenue maximization with multiple purchases

R Xu, X Zhang, B Li, Y Zhang… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Product ranking is the core problem for revenue-maximizing online retailers. To design
proper product ranking algorithms, various consumer choice models are proposed to …

[PDF][PDF] Constrained assortment optimization with satisficers consumers

G Gallego, MM Iravani, M Talebian - Available at SSRN 4402473, 2023 - papers.ssrn.com
A growing body of research suggests that an abundance of choices can lead to decision-
making difficulties for consumers. Rather than maximizing utility, many consumers employ a …

Sampling individually-fair rankings that are always group fair

S Gorantla, A Mehrotra, A Deshpande… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Rankings on online platforms help their end-users find the relevant information—people,
news, media, and products—quickly. Fair ranking tasks, which ask to rank a set of items to …

Display optimization under the multinomial logit choice model: Balancing revenue and customer satisfaction

J Feldman, P Jiang - Production and Operations …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper, we consider an assortment optimization problem in which a platform must
choose pairwise disjoint sets of assortments to offer across a series of T stages. Arriving …