Frontiers in Service Science: Data-Driven Revenue Management: The Interplay of Data, Model, and Decisions

N Chen, M Hu - Service Science, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Revenue management (RM) is the application of analytical methodologies and tools that
predict consumer behavior and optimize product availability and prices to maximize a firm's …

Thompson sampling for the mnl-bandit

S Agrawal, V Avadhanula, V Goyal… - … on learning theory, 2017 - proceedings.mlr.press
We consider a sequential subset selection problem under parameter uncertainty, where at
each time step, the decision maker selects a subset of cardinality $ K $ from $ N $ possible …

Online policies for efficient volunteer crowdsourcing

V Manshadi, S Rodilitz - Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Nonprofit crowdsourcing platforms such as food recovery organizations rely on volunteers to
perform time-sensitive tasks. Thus, their success crucially depends on efficient volunteer …

Learning personalized product recommendations with customer disengagement

H Bastani, P Harsha, G Perakis… - … & Service Operations …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Problem definition: We study personalized product recommendations on platforms when
customers have unknown preferences. Importantly, customers may disengage when offered …

Nested elimination: a simple algorithm for best-item identification from choice-based feedback

J Yang, Y Feng - International Conference on Machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
We study the problem of best-item identification from choice-based feedback. In this
problem, a company sequentially and adaptively shows display sets to a population of …

Contextual inverse optimization: Offline and online learning

O Besbes, Y Fonseca, I Lobel - Operations Research, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
We study the problems of offline and online contextual optimization with feedback
information, where instead of observing the loss, we observe, after the fact, the optimal …

Explaining preferences with shapley values

R Hu, SL Chau, J Ferrando Huertas… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
While preference modelling is becoming one of the pillars of machine learning, the problem
of preference explanation remains challenging and underexplored. In this paper, we …

Exploring the differentiated elderly service subsidies considering consumer word-of-mouth preferences

K Li, X Wang, C Liang, W Lu - International Journal of Intelligent …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The elderly service industry is emerging in China. The Chinese government
introduced a series of policies to guide elderly service enterprises to improve their service …

On a mallows-type model for (ranked) choices

Y Feng, Y Tang - Advances in Neural Information …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We consider a preference learning setting where every participant chooses an ordered list of
$ k $ most preferred items among a displayed set of candidates.(The set can be different for …

[PDF][PDF] Optimal clustering with bandit feedback

J Yang, Z Zhong, VYF Tan - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2024 - jmlr.org
This paper considers the problem of online clustering with bandit feedback. A set of arms (or
items) can be partitioned into various groups that are unknown. Within each group, the …