5 papers
Auditing Marketing Budget Allocation with Hindsight Regret
Nilavra Pathak, Olivier Jeunen, Eric Lambert
Organizations routinely make strategic budget allocations under operational constraints, but often lack a principled way to assess whether realized allocations were close to the be…
Learning to Spend: Model Predictive Control for Budgeting under Non-Stationary Returns
Nilavra Pathak, Smriti Shyamal, Prasant Mhasker +1
We study finite-horizon budget allocation as a closed-loop economic control problem and evaluate receding-horizon Model Predictive Control (MPC) relative to reactive budgeting poli…
DataCenterGym: A Physics-Grounded Simulator for Multi-Objective Data Center Scheduling
Nilavra Pathak, Samadrita Biswas, Nirmalya Roy
Modern datacenters schedule heterogeneous workloads across geo-distributed sites with diverse compute capacities, electricity prices, and thermal conditions. Compute utilization, h…
Off-Policy Evaluation and Counterfactual Methods in Dynamic Auction Environments
Ritam Guha, Nilavra Pathak
Counterfactual estimators are critical for learning and refining policies using logged data, a process known as Off-Policy Evaluation (OPE). OPE allows researchers to assess new po…
Estimating Buildings' Parameters over Time Including Prior Knowledge
Nilavra Pathak, James Foulds, Nirmalya Roy +2
Modeling buildings' heat dynamics is a complex process which depends on various factors including weather, building thermal capacity, insulation preservation, and residents' behavi…